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Archbishop Arthur Roche, then secretary of the congregation, left, and Cardinal Robert Sarah, then prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, pray with U.S. bishops at the start of a meeting at the congregation at the Vatican on Jan. 14, 2020. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Pope Francis appoints Archbishop Roche as new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, successor to Cardinal Sarah
Gerard O’Connell
Archbishop Roche has served Pope Francis well under two very different prefects at the congregation for divine worship.
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Pope Francis urges Christians worldwide to pray for the church in China
Gerard O’Connell
While May 24 has been celebrated with prayer for and with the church in China every year since 2008, Francis’ message on Sunday comes at the end of a week in which a number of troubling news reports reached the Vatican.
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On Pentecost, Pope Francis calls on the church to reject ideologies of ‘conservatives and progressives, right and left’
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis identified three suggestions that are typical of the Holy Spirit: Live in the present. Look to the whole. Put God before yourself.
Pope Francis attends the final session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican in this Oct. 26, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Pope Francis: The People of God must be consulted before the October 2023 synod of bishops
Gerard O’Connell
The pope‘s aim is to involve the whole church at diocesan, national and continental levels through a process of “listening and discernment” on the important theme of synodality.
Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, speaks during the presentation of the book, Walking with Ignatius, in Rome May 11, 2021. The book is based on an interview journalist Dario Menor conducted with Father Sosa. (CNS photo/courtesy General Curia of the Society of Jesus)
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Arturo Sosa, S.J., on what Pope Francis and St. Ignatius have in common
Gerard O’Connell
St. Ignatius ”was a reformer and a better reformer than Luther,” Father Sosa says in this interview with America for the start of the Ignatian Year, because he “obtained reforms without causing division.”
Stephen Chow, S.J. (photo courtesy the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus) 
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Head of Chinese Jesuits named new bishop of Hong Kong
Gerard O’Connell
The diocese has been without a bishop since Jan. 3, 2019, when Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung died after leading the diocese for just 17 months.
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