Pope Francis

Pope Francis encouraged youngsters to put down their phones to spend time praying and looking at other people to see their needs.

“It is beautiful to follow Jesus,” he wrote. “Our eyes are made to look into other people’s eyes,” he said. “The Lord does not want us to spend our days being closed in on ourselves.

He was addressing the new Ambassadors of Belize, Bahamas, Thailand, Norway, Mongolia, Niger, Uganda and Sudan as they begin their mandates to liaise with the ...

Finally, the Pope invited the ambassadors to find “fresh and creative ways of promoting solidarity and social friendship,” and assured them of the cooperation and support of the Secretariat of State and of the Dicasteries and Offices of the Roman Curia. He invited the diplomats to draw upon the “historical, intellectual, technological, artistic and cultural treasures, that are unique contributions of your particular peoples” and to offer their contributions to humanity. Warning against the risk of becoming accustomed to longstanding conflicts in many parts of the world, the Pope said that “If peace is to have a chance and the poor the prospect of a better future (…) we are all called to show greater vigilance and respond to the call to be peacemakers in our time.”

Welcoming new ambassadors to the Vatican from Belize, Bahamas, Thailand, Norway, Mongolia, Niger, Uganda and Sudan Dec. 15, the pope thanked the nations they ...

Welcoming new ambassadors to the Vatican from Belize, Bahamas, Thailand, Norway, Mongolia, Niger, Uganda and Sudan Dec. The pope accepted the letters of credential from ambassadors from Belize, Bahamas, Thailand, Norway, Mongolia, Niger, Uganda and Sudan. Pope Francis accepts letters of credential from Aïchatou Boulama Kané, Niger's ambassador to the Holy See, during an audience with new ambassadors to the Holy See in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Dec.

A person takes a photo of Pope Francis on a cell phone during a papal audience on Dec. 10, 2022. / Vatican Media. See CNA article for full slideshow. Vatican ...

the secret is precisely to take care of others,” the pope said. [please consider donating](https://www.ignatius.com/Donation-P3579.aspx) to support our efforts. “Our eyes are meant to look into the eyes of others.

Pope Francis told the children and teenagers gathered at the Vatican to remember that Jesus teaches that 'every person is important.'

the secret is precisely to take care of others,” the pope said. “Our eyes are meant to look into the eyes of others. In a meeting on Dec.

Pastoralidad is not a normal word in Spanish any more than pastorality is in English. Yet as soon as you hear it, you know what it means, or at least you ...

And Francis is always calling us to draw closer to God by paying attention to how God works with us. Rather than practical considerations “limiting” otherwise absolute theological truths, God’s own pastoral closeness to us and our call to embody such compassion ourselves is the central theological truth Pope Francis keeps returning to. [closeness, compassion and tenderness.](https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/03/03/pope-francis-general-audience-jesus-reveals-god-240143)” He means that it is God who pastors first; the Father draws close to our humanity in the gift of the Son and the Holy Spirit draws us into their love. Even though the words cannot fully carry the feeling, and the feeling is anyway only pointing at a greater reality, there is still something powerfully holy, something that calls for reverence, in hearing someone try to name it. This is not to say that meeting the pope and talking with him was not consoling and profound; of course it was. It is similar to hearing a friend try to describe a powerful experience in prayer.

Our eyes are made to transmit joy, says Pope Francis, not to look down at a virtual world in our hands.

To bear witness to Jesus’ love, it is necessary to go out into the field not individually, but together, as a group. They were not made to look down at a virtual world that we hold in our hands, but to raise our eyes to heaven, to God, and to look those who live next to us in the eyes.” Our look, our eyes are made to transmit the joy experienced from having met Jesus, that friendship that transforms existence, that makes us embrace life and enables us to discover its beauty. One starts from here, from seeing in each person not an adversary, but a teammate, a child of God: This is the spirit with which to overcome indifference. It is a decisive verb, because it transforms the disciple into an apostle, it makes him a missionary. The Pope continued the reflection with the question, “Where do we go?

VATICAN CITY (CNS) ─ Pope Francis encouraged youngsters to put down their phones to spend time praying and looking at other people to see their needs.

"It is beautiful to follow Jesus," he wrote. "Our eyes are made to look into other people's eyes," he said. "The Lord does not want us to spend our days being closed in on ourselves.

Catholic Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are engaging citizens of the Central African nation to accord the Holy Father “a welcome worthy ...

[prayer prepared](https://lequotidien.cd/voici-la-priere-pour-la-visite-du-pape-francois-en-rdc/) for this intention “at the end of each Eucharistic celebration, until the end of the Holy Father's visit.” They note that “the meeting with the Pope is a moment of grace that requires a good spiritual preparation” and go on to invite all the faithful to “pray for this great ecclesial and national meeting.” “We launch an urgent appeal to the faithful, to men and women of good will to remobilize to give the Pastor of the Universal Church, the Successor of the Apostle Peter, a welcome worthy of his rank,” Catholic Bishops in DRC say.