Tag: Pope Francis

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 18:39 UTC

  A Pope, two presidents, a businessman and a drug baron, the Latin-Americans that made it to Forbes list

  

  Pope Francis ranks as the fourth most powerful person in the world and the most powerful Latin-American, according to Forbes’ annual Most Powerful in the World List which this year had Russian President Vladimir Putin ranked number one ahead of President Barack Obama and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping, number three.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 16:34 UTC

  Cartes and Mujica will address Mercosur and port facilities in Friday's meeting in Montevideo

  

  Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes will be visiting Uruguay next 25 October to meet with his peer Jose Mujica and a month later will be flying to the Vatican to visit Pope Francis, November 25, announced Foreign minister Eladio Loizaga.

• Monday, October 14th 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  Catholic Church beatifies 522 priests and nuns killed by Republicans in the Spanish civil war

  

  The Roman Catholic Church in Spain has beatified 522 people, most of them priests and nuns killed by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. Thousands of people attended the outdoor event in Tarragona, presided over by a senior Vatican cardinal.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 05:21 UTC

  Pope Francis sends his blessings to President Cristina Fernandez

  

  Pope Francis has wished President Cristina Fernández a “full health recovery” following the surgery she underwent on Monday at the Fundación Favaloro clinic in Buenos Aires. “I beg you to feel my presence. I guarantee my nearness and prayer,” the ex Argentine cardinal said.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2013 - 10:04 UTC

  Francis calls for transparency and says too many popes had been ‘narcissists’

  

  Pope Francis began landmark meetings this week to reform the Vatican, promising to do all he could to change the mentality of an institution he said was too focused on its own interests. Francis and eight cardinals from around the world are holding three days of closed-door meetings to discuss the Vatican's troubled administration and to map out possible changes in the worldwide Church.

• Monday, September 23rd 2013 - 19:05 UTC

  Francis meets with unemployed and blasts the global economic system based on a “god called money”

  

  Francis has made one of his strongest attacks yet on the global economic system, saying it could no longer be based on a “god called money” and urged the unemployed to fight for work.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 07:52 UTC

  Francis calls for a more welcoming church with priests acting as pastors and not dogmatic bureaucrats

  

  Pope Francis said the Catholic Church should not allow its bans on gay marriage, abortion and contraception to dominate its teachings, but must be a more welcoming Church where priests are understanding-pastors and not cold, dogmatic bureaucrats.

• Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 07:40 UTC

  Pope prepared to discuss the issue of divorced and remarried Catholics

  

  Pope Francis has said that next month he will meet with a group of eight cardinals to discuss the issue of divorced and remarried Catholics. The pope also referred to the scandals that have beset the Church, confirming that it is necessary to face the most serious problems with clarity, but without pessimism.

• Saturday, August 31st 2013 - 17:31 UTC

  Chronicle of a removal foretold: Francis names new ‘prime minister’

  

  Pope Francis and his orthodox reform approach sets a new tone for a Vatican beset by scandals by naming a veteran diplomat as secretary of state, a role often called the “deputy pope”.

• Monday, August 12th 2013 - 18:21 UTC

  Pope calls for respect for human life from conception; sends Ramadan message to Muslims

  

  Respect for human life from conception until natural death is something children must be taught, not mainly with words, but by the example of their parents, Pope Francis said. “Parents are called to pass on to their children the awareness that life must always be defended,” Pope Francis wrote in a message to people joining in the Brazilian Catholic Church's celebration of Family Week, which began August 11.