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• News from the Vatican

  • In tiny East Timor, Pope extols becoming ‘small before God’
    “Let us not be afraid to scale down our plans when necessary, not in order to diminish them but to make them even more beautiful through the gift of ourselves and the acceptance of others,” Pope...
  • In a country where priests are lords, Pope warns clergy never to ‘crush others’
    On his second day in East Timor, the nation with the largest percentage of Catholics in Asia, Pope Francis told leaders of the local church to continue their efforts at evangelization and building...
  • Suitcase-packing Pope delivers material and spiritual aid to the margins
    In one of Papua New Guinea’s most remote dioceses, where the church was established thanks to the presence of foreign missionaries, Pope Francis told faithful to spread God’s beauty and love wherever...
  • Pope urges Catholics at the peripheries to stay close to God
    Pope Francis on Sunday told Catholics in Papua New Guinea to have hope and to stay close to God amid their daily challenges, and not to close themselves off from Christ or others when things become...