Rewatch Pope Francis' Papal Mass in Philadelphia
'At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his Church,″ Farrell said in the announcement.'He taught us to live the values of the Gospel with faithfulness, courage, and universal love, especially for the poorest and most marginalized.
'With immense gratitude for his example as a true disciple of the Lord Jesus, we commend the soul of Pope Francis to the infinite, merciful love of God, One and Tribune.″
In 2015, Pope Francis visited the United States and held a Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Staints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. He also gave a speech in front of Independence Hall and at the World Meeting of Families on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Pope Francis' Papal Mass is available to rewatch in its entirety from abc27's special coverage from Philadelphia.
The full Papal Mass is also available to rewatch on the abc27 News+ app, available now on Roku, FireTV, and AppleTV devices.
Download the abc27 News+ app on your Roku, Amazon Fire TV Stick, and Apple TV devices
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
CBS News
a day ago
- CBS News
Denver archbishop to submit resignation as 75th birthday approaches
Archbishop Samuel Aquila of the Archdiocese of Denver will submit his resignation as his birthday approaches in September. Canon law within the Catholic Church requests that bishops submit their resignations to the pope when they turn 75. Aquila has served as the diocese's archbishop since 2012, when he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to replace Archbishop Charles Chaput. Aquila was already well known to the Denver community, having been ordained here, and he served as a pastor in 11 different parishes during the 80s. Denver's Catholic community prayed for Aquila's health and spiritual renewal as he approaches his 75th birthday, as well as for the coming transition. It is not yet known when Pope Leo XIV will accept his resignation letter or who will be appointed as his successor. "This time of transition offers us a powerful opportunity to lean into prayer, deepen our faith and renew our love for the Church. Whether at Sunday Mass, in quiet moments of intercession or through fasting and sacrifice, let us commit to covering this change in prayer, confident that the Lord, who began a good work in us, will bring it to completion," Denver Catholic Magazine said.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Yahoo
Catholic Church says a parish priest and several others injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Catholic Church says a parish priest and several others injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church. Solve the daily Crossword
Boston Globe
6 days ago
- Boston Globe
Dig for children's remains begins at Irish home for unwed mothers
'Some of the families have been really seeking answers to these questions for many years,' Daniel MacSweeney, who directs the excavation, said in an interview. He leads the Office of the Director of Authorized Intervention, Tuam, an independent organization established by the Irish government in 2022 to recover the remains. The team began with small motorized diggers, MacSweeney said, while specialists watched for signs of remains. Once bodies appear, he said, the work will continue by hand, noting 'the complexity of the challenge.' Advertisement Scientists estimate that infant bodies lie 'commingled' in the tanks under St. Mary's Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, a town in County Galway in the west of Ireland. The institution was long one of the most notorious homes for unwed mothers in Ireland. In the first decades of Irish independence, when the Catholic Church ruled almost every aspect of daily life with an uncompromising doctrine, unmarried pregnant women in Ireland were widely seen as immoral. Shunned by their communities and disowned by their families, they were often sent to one of many such homes. Advertisement There, the young women were forced to work. Their babies died at rates far above the national average. Some mothers were deceived and told that their babies had died, when the infants had in fact been illegally adopted from the facilities. 'If that's a reflection of where particularly poor and marginalized women's rights were, it's a fairly damning one,' Sarah-Anne Buckley, an associate professor in history at Galway University and a co-leader of the Tuam Oral History Project, said in an interview. 'It's the women, but it's also the children.' In that era, few people could speak out against the Catholic Church, which ran the homes and other institutions with near-absolute power. The government last year reported that there had been thousands of allegations of sexual abuse at schools run by Catholic orders in the past century. Some of the women of Tuam have spent fruitless decades searching for their children, dead or alive. They had little to go on until information about the infants' deaths began to emerge over a decade ago, thanks to the work of an amateur historian, Catherine Corless. Corless found that at least 798 children had died at St. Mary's, but only two were buried in the cemetery across the street. In 2014, after interviewing survivors and combing through the archives, she made a shocking allegation: The nuns had secretly buried infants and young children in the septic system. 'This was immoral,' she told The New York Times in an interview in 2022. 'Against Catholic ethos. This was a sewage facility!' Advertisement The home's managers, the Sisters of Bon Secours, apologized in 2021: 'We acknowledge in particular that infants and children who died at the Home were buried in a disrespectful and unacceptable way.' On Monday, the order declined to make its leadership available for an interview or respond to questions from the Times. The home was demolished decades ago and a housing project was built on the site. The dig, authorized by the Irish government in 2022, is expected to last for about two years, during which time active sites will be concealed from public view and protected by security. MacSweeney, the dig's leader, said that the budget for this year is about $11 million. He emphasized the many challenges. The team does not know how many children are buried in the ancient septic system, which has 20 tanks. They are preparing to separate the bones, which are believed to be jumbled together, to try to rebuild individual skeletons. They then need to try to identify the children by extracting DNA samples from the remains, which, after decades of decomposition, is not guaranteed. And the bones are tiny, making the painstaking work even harder. If they can get usable DNA samples, they will try to match them to samples given by relatives. Finally, the scientists know that there are 19th-century famine remains at the site, which was also a military barracks and execution site during Ireland's civil war in the 1920s. They do not know if bones from those eras could be mixed with those of children who died at St. Mary's. But one thing is certain: The jumbled graveyard beneath the soil tells some of the most painful chapters of Irish history, the wounds of which remain unhealed. Advertisement This article originally appeared in .
