These are Pope Francis’ prayer intentions for 2024
Each month Pope Francis shares a prayer intention as part of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network.
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Pope Francis publishes apostolic letter on Blaise Pascal
Pope Francis published an apostolic letter on Monday praising the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal as “a tireless seeker of truth.”
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Pope Francis returns to Vatican after surgery
Pope Francis was discharged from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital to a round of applause on Friday, after an eight-day stay following abdominal surgery.
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Pope Francis to leave hospital on Friday
During his last full day of hospitalization on June 15, Pope Francis visited the pediatric oncology ward of Gemelli Hospital
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Vatican: Pope Francis’ doctors plan to discharge him from hospital ‘in the next few days’
Pope Francis’ doctors expect the pope to be discharged from the hospital “in the next few days,” according to the Vatican.
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Pope Francis’ emphasis on synodality cited in joint Catholic-Orthodox statement
The joint statement called for Roman Catholics and Orthodox to continue along a path of dialogue in charity
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Satellite with Pope Francis’ words launches into space
The Italian Space Agency will operate the satellite, which was built by the Polytechnic University of Turin
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Pope Francis laments the spiritual poverty in a culture that leads to teen suicides
Pope Francis has said that the rise in teen suicides points to a deeper spiritual poverty in our culture today that leads young people to believe they are failures.
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Pope Francis praying and working from hospital
On Sunday, the pope watched Sunday Mass on television and received the Eucharist in his hospital room before praying the Angelus
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Nigerian priest returning from pastoral duties shot dead; archdiocese in ‘great shock’
Father Charles Onomhoale Igechi was shot dead upon returning from pastoral duties in Nigeria’s Benin City Archdiocese on Wednesday, June 7, the local ordinary has said.
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Pope Francis: Treat others with dignity, not as objects
“The other is always ‘someone’ who has dignity and merits respect, and not ‘something’ to be used, exploited or thrown away"
