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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- In a heartfelt letter to hishomeland Sept. 30, Pope Francis told his fellow Argentines that he will not be able tovisit this or next year because of obligations in Asia and Africa."You don't know how much I would love to see you again," PopeFrancis said in the letter addressed to the people of Argentina, which is a transcriptof an accompanying video message."For me, the people of Argentina are my people, you areimportant," he wrote. "I continue to be an Argentine, and I still travel withan Argentine passport. I am convinced that the people are the biggest treasureof our homeland."Pope Francis said he wanted to go to Argentina to beatify "MamaAntula" and to canonize "Cura Brochero." He was referring to Maria Antonia dePaz Figueroa, an 18th-century Catholic laywoman who championed the Ignatian spiritualexercises in Argentina after the Jesuits were expelled, and Jose Gabriel delRosario Brochero, a "gaucho," or cowboy priest, kno...
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(Vatican Radio) Meeting national authorities and members of the diplomatic corps in Tbilisi, Georgia Friday, Pope Francis described the Caucasus nation as a “blessed land, a place of encounter and vital exchange among cultures and civilizations” which, since the 4th century, “discovered in Christianity its deepest identity and the solid foundation of its values.”The Pope was speaking at the Presidential palace shortly after his arrival in the Georgian capital. In his address, he recalled his meeting in the Vatican last year with President Giorgi Margvelashvili and thanked him for the invitation to visit his country whose values, expressed “in culture, language and traditions,” he said, place it fully “within the bedrock of European civilization.”Georgia, a bridge between Europe and AsiaDescribing Georgia as a “natural bridge between Europe and Asia,” that for centuries has facilitated “communication and ...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis is currently on an Apostolic journey to Georgia. He flew into the nation's capital Tbilisi on Friday 30th of September and his third and last appointment of the day took place at the Chaldean Catholic Church of Simon 'Bar Sabbae', dedicated to a tenth century Coptic Saint. There he met with representatives of the Assyrian Chaldean community.Listen to a report by Veronica Scarisbrick: Upon his arrival at the Church the Pope was greeted by the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans and the local parish priest. Together they entered the Church in procession, making their way towards the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament therein. .Among those present were around three hundred faithful from the Assyrian Chaldean 'Diaspora'. Not just from the nation's capital but also from nearby towns and villages. For the record the Catholic Assyrian Chaldean mission in Georgia was instituted in 1995 under Vatican jurisdict...
