Tag: Pope Francis

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  World War III has been declared, Pope Francis says

  

  Pope Francis last week told editors of the European cultural magazines of the Society of Jesus that, in his opinion, World War III had been declared, it was reported Tuesday by La Civilta Cattolica.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:41 UTC

  Pope cancels African tour due to knee treatment

  

  Pope Francis has been forced to cancel a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan due to knee problems, the Vatican announced Friday. The Argentine pontiff has already postponed a trip to Lebanon in June, citing “health reasons.”

• Monday, May 2nd 2022 - 07:54 UTC

  Pope Francis admits to having a limp

  

  Pope Francis welcomed a group of pilgrims Saturday and told them he would rather stand up but this time around he would have to pay attention to his doctors, who had advised him not to walk. “My leg is not well,” the Argentina-born 85-year-old Pontiff said.

• Saturday, December 11th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Pope Francis defends the resigned archbishop of Paris, victim of “injustice”

  

  The “sins of the flesh are not the most serious” said Pope Francis this week in reference to the recent resignation of the Archbishop of Paris. However, he condemned the “injustice” of the resignation of Michel Aupetit, because of media reports about an alleged intimate relation of the archbishop with a woman.

• Saturday, October 30th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Argentine President ready to start official agenda in Rome

  

  Argentina President Alberto Fernández landed Friday in Rome for the G20 Summit. But while at the Italian capital he will also have other engagements, such as a meeting with International Monetary Fund chief executive Kristalina Georgieva to further discuss repayment of the country's US $ 44 billion debt.

• Saturday, October 30th 2021 - 00:04 UTC

  US President and Pope discuss climate change and COVID-19 vaccines

  

  US President Joseph Biden Friday met in Vatican City with Pope Francis, in an encounter during which climate change and COVID-19 vaccines topped the agenda at the same time the issue of abortion was cautiously overlooked by the Catholic Church's leader and one of his most prominent adherents.

• Tuesday, October 5th 2021 - 07:06 UTC

  Pope Francis tells Judges that there is “no democracy with empty stomachs”

  

  Pope Francis last week sent a video to a meeting of the Committee of Pan American Judges for Social Justice and Franciscan doctrine, recalling particularly to Argentine magistrates that “there is no democracy with hungry people”.

• Friday, September 10th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Chile's President meets Argentina-born Pope; no comments about the latest territorial dispute

  

  Chile's President Sebastián Piñera Thursday met with Pope Francis at The Vatican during one of his stops on his current European tour.

• Thursday, September 2nd 2021 - 08:04 UTC

  Pope Francis refers to Afghanistan confusing statements from Merkel and Putin

  

  Despite having screened an interview to a Spanish radio station, Pope Francis nevertheless on Wednesday confused statements from German Chancellor Angela Merkel with those from Russian president Vladimir Putin.

• Friday, July 30th 2021 - 08:37 UTC

  Vatican's major trial for financial crimes involving two cardinals takes off

  

  Cardinal Angelo Becciu is one of ten defendants in what is the Vatican’s largest trial for financial crimes in the modern era. The cardinal is going before the Vatican tribunal for the first time since Pope Francis changed norms in April to allow cardinals and archbishops to be tried by lay judges, in this case on charges of embezzlement and abuse of office.