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EL PASO (CNS) — Two days before Pope Francis’ main event in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the Diocese of El Paso was coordinating the final touches to its own two main papal events. While the Diocese of Juárez’s chancery was bustling with Church officials obtaining their papal Mass credentials, El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz was handling a full day of meetings, greeting incoming dignitaries and doing media interviews. He closed the day meeting with parishioners at St. Ignatius Church to distribute 200 free tickets to a celebration to be held at the Sun Bowl Stadium Feb. 17.

HAVANA (CNS) — At long last, Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow embraced, kissing each other three times. “Finally,” the pope told the patriarch Feb. 12 as they met in a lounge at Havana’s José Martí International Airport. “We are brothers,” he told the patriarch.

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The significance of Pope Francis’ planned apostolic visit to Mexico Feb. 12-17 is not lost on the faithful in the Diocese of Phoenix. “While Mexico has its own unique heritage and culture, we can be sure that much of what Pope Francis says and does there will have great relevance for us in Arizona,” said Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted. “I look forward to his pastoral visit to our neighbors to the south, and pray for a safe and fruitful pastoral journey by Pope Francis.”

"We come with a luggage full of dreams," the deacon said, yet the ever-present news about Canada's plan to welcome 25,000 Syrian refugees made him pensive.

"We can work toward a new world, characterized by equality, peace, charity and mutual respect, so that mercy becomes a common culture within public and family lives," the Latin patriarch said.

Where God is born, so is hope and peace, with no room for hatred and war, Pope Francis said in his Christmas message.

It was a reading of a book while a student at Seton Catholic Preparatory that set her on a social justice path that helped earn her such an honor.

Christmas away from home is a norm for military personnel, inmates, refugees. The Church responds.