
Elise Ann Allen
Senior Correspondent at Crux Now
Senior Correspondent in Italy covering papal, #Vatican and Church news for @Crux
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2 days ago |
cruxnow.com | Nirmala Carvalho |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
MUMBAI, India – Cardinal Oswald Gracias says Pope Francis was “a person of deep faith, of prayer.”Gracias was the archbishop of Bombay until the pope accepted his retirement earlier this year. The cardinal spoke to Crux after learning about the death of Francis on Monday. “The Holy Spirit sends us the leader that we need at different times,” Gracias said.
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2 days ago |
cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Father Stan Chu Ilo is no stranger to the late Pope Francis. The Coordinating Servant of the Pan African Theology and Pastoral Network (PACTPAN) also worked closely with the Vatican, serving as the North American coordinator for ‘Doing Theology from the Existential Peripheries of Life’—a synodal initiative launched by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. This project aimed to listen to and learn from Catholics living on the margins of society and the Church.
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3 days ago |
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr
ROME – Now that Pope Francis has died after returning to the Vatican after a prolonged hospital stay to fight a respiratory infection and pneumonia, his passing has marked the beginning of papal transition phase, when the church mourns the late pontiff and prepares to elect another.
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3 days ago |
cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho |Ngala Killian Chimtom
ROME – When Pope Francis was elected to the Throne of Peter on March 13, 2013, he was largely unknown to the wider world. Even many of his fellow Argentines felt they had only a vague, indistinct impression of a man who, in their experience, had tended to shun the spotlight.
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4 days ago |
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Ngala Killian Chimtom
ROME – In a series of unusual events, Pope Francis and United States Vice President JD Vance had a private meeting at the Vatican Easter morning while Mass was being celebrated by a papal aide in St. Peter’s Square.
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After an official state visit by King Charles & Queen Camilla of England to the #Vatican was postponed due to Pope Francis’s ongoing recovery from double pneumonia, the pontiff held a private meeting w the royal couple at the Vatican https://t.co/Xo3BR3pIWr

A #Vatican official & spokesman for St. Peter’s Basilica said the ancient tradition of devotion to Veronica’s Veil & the Holy Face of Jesus is a sign of hope & an invitation to return to the essentials in a world constantly connected & on the move https://t.co/AOYNZ3wdnE

RT @CatholicHerald: Pope's period of respite continues despite recent surprise appearance at the Jubilee of the sick ✍️@eliseannallen ht…