Tag: Catholic Church

• Thursday, June 18th 2020 - 20:10 UTC

  Vatican urges Catholics to disinvest from fossil fuel industries

  

  The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment.

• Saturday, April 4th 2020 - 07:21 UTC

  500th anniversary of first mass in Argentina was celebrated in Rio Gallegos

  

  On Wednesday, April first, the Bishop of Río Gallegos, Bishop Jorge García Cuerva, presided over a Eucharistic celebration in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the first Mass celebrated on what would later be Argentine soil.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:17 UTC

  Falkland Islands, part of the largest Catholic ecclesiastic jurisdiction

  

  The Catholic Church in the British Overseas Territories of the southern Atlantic Ocean is governed by two ecclesiastical jurisdictions: the Apostolic Prefecture of the Falkland Islands and the Ecclesial Mission sui iuris of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Both of these are directly responsible to the Holy See.

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church readies for the anti/abortion battle: rally on Women's Day

  

  The Catholic Church in Argentina has called an anti-abortion rally to coincide with International Women's Day, after centre-left President Alberto Fernandez spoke in favor of decriminalization of the issue.

• Thursday, February 6th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Pope Francis calls for debt sustainability to alleviate the suffering of people

  

  Pope Francis staged a surprise visit to admonish the International Monetary Fund chief and several finance ministers to help alleviate the debt burden of struggling countries, calling for “a new financial architecture” to ensure social justice.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Pope Francis kisses nun, as long “as you stay calm and don't bite”

  

  Pope Francis, who last month angrily slapped the hand of a woman who yanked him towards her, gave a light-hearted reaction more typical of his papacy on Wednesday when a nun asked him for a kiss. He said yes, although only after she promised not to bite him.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Pope apologizes for slapping a woman who had grabbed him, “we lose patience many times”

  

  Pope Francis apologized on Wednesday for slapping a woman who had grabbed him as he greeted a crowd of devotees, shortly before he delivered a speech denouncing ”every form of violence against women.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Defrocked US cardinal paid for silence from Vatican officials, Washington Post reports

  

  A US cardinal gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to powerful Catholic clerics including two popes while facing accusations of sexual harassment, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Hundreds of children sexually abused by priests from ultra conservative branch of Mexican Catholic Church

  

  At least 175 children were sexually assaulted by priests belonging to an ultra-conservative Mexican branch of the Roman Catholic Church, according to an internal report published over the weekend.

• Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Macri and Fernandez embrace, for a few seconds, at the Lujan Basilica

  

  Outgoing Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his successor Alberto Fernandez embraced for a few seconds on Sunday at the Lujan Basilica, the country's main sanctuary to the Virgin Mary. The gesture was minimum and a few seconds but it was done on request from the Catholic Church.