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Christina MacDougall places a wedding band on Julio Prendergast's finger as Msgr. Francis J. Schneider officiates their wedding Mass Aug. 20, 2021, at St. John the Baptist Church in Wading River, N.Y. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis said “superficial” marriage preparation programs leave many couples at risk of having invalid marriages or unprepared to cope with the struggles that arise in every marriage.
The Pope, seated before a crowd, greets a young boy in a green hat.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The pope continues to express his desire to visit Ukraine, but remains cognizant of political and practical limitations to this objective.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“With a heart shattered over the massacre at the elementary school in Texas, I pray for the children and adults who were killed and for their families,” the pope said.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Granting an exception to canon law, Pope Francis said men’s communities that are made up of both priests and brothers can choose one of the brothers to be a provincial superior or even the superior general.
Adrian Gunner, representing the Assembly of First Nations, presents Pope Francis with snowshoes made of black ash with caribou sinew and artificial sinew in the Vatican's Clementine Hall April 1, 2022.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis will meet members of Canada’s Indigenous communities in late July, visiting the cities of Edmonton, Quebec, and Iqaluit in Nunavut, the country’s most northern region.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
A $5 million donation is going to help launch the Catholic Sisters Cognitive Impairment-Alzheimer’s Global Initiative, a project to help religious orders care for sisters with dementia.
Pope Francis greets the crowd as he leads the “Regina Coeli” prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 8, 2022.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
“When liturgical life is a bit of a banner of division, there is the odor of the devil, the deceiver,” the pope said on May 7.
People gather outside Rome's Colosseum April 19, 2019, before Pope Francis leads the Way of the Cross.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church asked Pope Francis to scrap plans to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry the cross together during the pope’s Way of the Cross service.
Pope Francis greets Joe Donnelly, new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, during a meeting for the ambassador to present his letters of credential, at the Vatican April 11, 2022.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
The new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See officially began his duties April 11, presenting his letters of credential to Pope Francis.
Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi, prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education, speaks at a news conference on Jan. 29, 2018.
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Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
But the Congregation for Catholic Education also said that administrators should not be too quick to dismiss employees who are not “totally” Catholic.