His message: ‘Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart.’
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Pope Francis meets sick children and their families
Monday, June 3rd 2013The Pope was visited by a group of young cancer patients who are being treated at Rome’s Agostino Gemelli hospital
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Pope Francis highlights role of women in the Church
Wednesday, April 3rd 2013The Pontiff has called on women to be messengers of faith and hope
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Pope Francis appeals for peace in Urbi et Orbi message
Sunday, March 31st 2013Pope calls for an end to human trafficking
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Pope’s homily on the opening of the Year of Faith
Thursday, 11 October 2012
Challenge of Vatican II, he says, was to make ‘the truth and beauty of the faith shine out in our time’
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Thursday, 11 October 2012
At his weekly general audience Pope Benedict XVI reflected on the importance of the Council
Pope arrives in Loreto to pray for the Year of Faith and Synod of Bishops
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Benedict XVI is following the journey that John XXIII took 50 years ago, when the Second Vatican Council was about to begin
Man stages protest on dome of St Peter’s Basilica
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
The Italian man, who has been on the dome since yesterday afternoon, is protesting against Mario Monti, the EU and the economic crisis
Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie