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Pope noted that being a journalist is a vocation, something like that of a doctor, “who chooses to love humanity by caring for its illnesses” because they “choose to personally touch the wounds of society and the world”.

Pope Francis is likely to visit at the end of August four countries in Asia—Indonesia, Singapore, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea.

Pope Francis began the year 2023 by mourning Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned in 2013 and died on December 31, 2022.

“Dare to build a different world, a world of listening, dialogue, and openness,” said Pope Francis

Around 6,500 people attended the customary end-of-year celebration, and several more awaited Pope Francis outside the Basilica.

"The wonder of Christmas" is that an infinite God "becomes finite for our sake," said Pope Francis.

“This is my wish for you: to be attentive, in your homes and families, to the little things of everyday life, to small gestures of gratitude," said pope Francis.

In the face of the mystery of the incarnation of the Word, of the birth of Jesus, we need this religious attitude of amazement, said Pope Francis. 

“Let us not forget the people who suffer the evil of war," said Pope Francis.

"Blessing same-sex couples will be feasible without the need for any form of ritualization or provision of the appearance of matrimony," said Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

“I need you to pray for my health [because] … old age does not come by itself … it does not make itself up, it presents itself as it is,” Francis said.

“Those who work at the Holy See and the Vatican City State certainly do so faithfully and honestly, but the lure of corruption is so dangerous that we must be extremely vigilant,” Pope Francis said.

These are guidelines with a concrete roadmap in which the deepening of synodality from a missionary perspective and the broadening of synodality experiences at the local level are the cornerstones on which the local communities are called to reflect.

The Holy Father tells the faithful of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Ernakulam to conform to the decisions of the Holy Synod or face the risk of being excommunicated declared outside of the Church.

“The Church is a Woman”, says Pope Francis to Council of Cardinals

“I would also like to assure the victims in the Philippines where there was a bomb that exploded during Mass,” Pope Francis.

“The choice of themes for all the workshops and round tables, as well as the multimedia materials available through the digital platform “Communicating Religious Life,” said the statement.

“I would then like to invite you to rediscover your vocation as 'apostles of peace' in every sphere of life," said the Holy Father.

Catholics must be reminded that active membership in Masonic lodges is forbidden because of the “irreconcilability between Catholic doctrine and Freemasonry," said Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández.

"The Colloquium will reaffirm friendship and reciprocal understanding built through dialogue with Buddhist partners throughout the world and, in particular, in Thailand," said the statement.