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Pope Sends Letter of Condolence to James Foley’s Family

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getty 082514 popefrancis?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1408981929859Buda Mendes/Getty Images(VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis extended his condolences Sunday to the family of James Foley, the American journalist executed by ISIS.

During a mass of remembrance held for the reporter in Rochester, New Hampshire, the Bishop of Rockeville Centre read a message from the pope:

“The Holy Father, deeply saddened by the death of James Wright Foley, asks you kindly to convey his personal condolences and the assurance of his closeness in prayer to James’ loved ones.  He commends James to the loving mercy of God our Father, and joins all who mourn him in praying for an end to senseless violence and the dawn of reconciliation and peace among all the members of the human family.  Upon the Foley family, and upon his friends and colleagues, he invokes the consolation and strength borne of our hope in Christ’s Resurrection.”

The letter was sent from the Holy See’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on behalf of Pope Francis, Vatican Radio reports.

Last Thursday, the pope phoned Foley’s parents to offer comfort after a video appearing to show the brutal murder of their son circulated online.


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