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• News from the Vatican

  • Pope ‘accepts’ Afghan’s wedding ring as sign of friendship, hope
    When Pary Gul, a Christian woman from Afghanistan, met Pope Francis Sept. 22, she gave him her wedding ring as a reminder of her husband, who has disappeared and may be dead.
  • Central Europe trip was about honoring roots, moving forward, pope says
    A living faith draws strength from remembering the past while continuing to grow in love of God and service to others, Pope Francis said.
  • Pope: Christ’s cross an invitation to set aside divisive agendas
    Jesus's death on the cross calls Christians to focus on helping the vulnerable rather than defending contentious agendas, Pope Francis said.
  • Media critical of the pope do ‘the devil’s work,’ Francis says
    In his conversation with Slovakian Jesuits while visiting the country last week, Pope Francis took a swipe at his media critics, saying he sometimes loses patience with people who insult or judge...