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Articles By Federico Lombardi

Spirituality

Fr. Lombardi's Statement on Questions Regarding Pope's Daily Homilies

The very great interest aroused by the Pope’s brief homilies in the course of the Masses celebrated every  morning in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta, poses and continues to pose  often the question  from different parts  on the possibility to access such celebrations or such homilies fully and not through the syntheses published every day by Vatican Radio and L’Osservatore Romano.

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A Penitential Time

In this week’s editorial, Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, speaks of the external challenges and pressures put on the Church since the resignation of Pope Benedict and leading up to the upcoming conclave. Fr. Lombardi is the director of the Press Office of the Holy See.