Tag: Pope Francis I

Monday, May 16th 2022 - 09:00 UTC
Argentine Pope canonizes first Uruguayan Saint

Pope Francis Sunday raised the first Uruguayan national to sainthood from St. Peter's Square when he canonized Mother Francisca Rubatto, an Italian-Uruguayan nun who lived between 1844 and 1904.
Friday, October 15th 2021 - 08:14 UTC
Smiling Pope credited with an Argentine miracle on his way to sainthood

The late Pope John Paul I, known for his charismatic smile and his controversial sudden death 33 days into his pontificate, is to be beatified by a decree from Argentina-born Pope Francis for a miracle having cured an Argentine girl in 2011, whom the doctors practically considered dead.
Monday, September 20th 2021 - 08:59 UTC
Scathing criticism from the Pope and Church to the Argentine political system: “President little time left”

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and the political and power struggle that emerged from Sunday, September 12 primary elections cataclysm received scathing criticisms from the Pope and the Catholic Church.
Thursday, February 21st 2019 - 09:31 UTC
Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy demand to meet Pope Francis

Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy demanded on Wednesday to meet Pope Francis to press their call for the Church to apply a zero-tolerance policy including the dismissal of bishops who covered up such offences.
Saturday, May 19th 2018 - 09:21 UTC
Priests sex-abuse in Chile: all bishops offered to resign after meeting the Pope

In an unprecedented move, all of Chile’s bishops offered to resign on Friday after attending a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up of sexual abuse in the country.
Tuesday, March 20th 2018 - 10:15 UTC
Francis balancing act in a letter to Argentines on the fifth anniversary of his pontificate

In a letter addressed to Argentine women and men who expressed their closeness on the fifth anniversary of his pontificate March 13, Pope Francis said his love for Argentina continues to be “great and intense,” and also apologized for gestures he’s made that might have caused offense.
Wednesday, March 14th 2018 - 08:56 UTC
Francis fifth year as Pope: a fearless reformer overwhelmed by the Church's sex abuse scandals

As Pope Francis marks the fifth year of his papacy next week, the pontiff once hailed as a fearless reformer is under fire for his handling of the sex abuse scandals that have rocked the Roman Catholic Church. Since taking over in March 2013, the 81-year-old Argentine has championed the cause of the marginalized, saying he wanted a “poor church for the poor” and shunning papal palaces and ostentatious displays of wealth.
Saturday, March 3rd 2018 - 10:28 UTC
”Inside the Church, women (nuns) are exploited”, says a Vatican magazine

A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants by cardinals and bishops, for whom they cook and clean for next to no pay. The March edition of “Women Church World,” the monthly women’s magazine of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, hit newsstands Thursday. Its expose on the underpaid labor and unappreciated intellect of religious sisters confirmed that the magazine is increasingly becoming the imprint of the Catholic Church’s #MeToo movement.
Saturday, January 13th 2018 - 09:40 UTC
Four churches attacked in Santiago ahead of Pope Francis visit to Chile on Monday

Four Catholic churches in Santiago were attacked with fire bombs before dawn on Friday, causing minor damage and leaving notes threatening Pope Francis just three days ahead of the pontiff’s visit to Chile next week, police said.
Wednesday, December 27th 2017 - 09:42 UTC
Morales insists in involving the Pope in the ongoing sea outlet dispute between Bolivia and Chile

Bolivian President Evo Morales implied in a Tweet that he and Pope Francis had discussed Bolivia’s territorial dispute with Chile during a meeting at the Vatican on December 15. According to the Vatican, the 30-minute private meeting “took place in a cordial atmosphere.”