ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis said Sunday his recovery from his latest abdominal surgery is going well and stressed that he ditched speeches during his five-day trip to Portugal and ...

Lima Newsroom, May 13, 2025 / 17:19 pm. Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary before the pilgrim statue of Our ...

The prayer had been expected to be a highlight of Francis’ visit to Fatima, given the shrine’s century-old affiliation with exhortations of peace and conversion in Russia and the ongoing war ...

Mon. 9:18 a.m.: Pope discusses health, his ditched peace prayer in Fatima and LGBTQ+ Catholics in airborne briefing News. Aug 7, 2023 ...

Given Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, a papal peace prayer at Fatima was to have been one of the highlights of Francis’ visit, but also potentially problematic as the Vatican seeks to ...

The trip, which came during a heat wave that sent temperatures to 40 degrees C in Lisbon, was notable because the 86-year-old pontiff deviated so often from his speeches, homilies and even prayers ...