2015-12-25 13:30
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis this Christmas day delivered his Urbi et Orbi message, (to the city and the world) from the central loggia of St Peter's Basilica. In it he prayed that recent U.N.-backed peace agreements for...
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2015-12-25 11:00
Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Christmas! Christ is born for us, let us rejoice in the day of our salvation! Let us open our hearts to receive the grace of this day, which is Christ himself. Jesus is the radiant “d...
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2015-12-24 22:20
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has celebrated Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica. Below, you can find the prepared text of the Holy Father’s homily for the Holy Mass of the Nativity of the Lord “during the Night”: Homi...
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2015-12-24 10:07
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will preside at the vigil Mass of Christmas this evening in Saint Peter’s Basilica, beginning at 9.30 pm Rome time. Pope Francis has used these occasions in the past to promote the main them...
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2015-12-23 15:53
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has been awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen, the oldest and best-known prize awarded for work done in the service of European unification.The announcement was made on Wedn...
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2015-12-23 16:33
Sir 3:2-6, 12-14, Col 3:12-21, Lk 2: 22-40 or Lk 2: 22& 39-40 Pope Francis once said that as a child, he heard a story of a family with a mother, father, many children and a gran...
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