Tag: Pope Francis

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.
Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:00 UTC
Francis urges the world to let the light of Christmas pierce the “darkness in human hearts”

Pope Francis urged the world to let the light of Christmas pierce the “darkness in human hearts” that leads to religious persecution, social injustice, armed conflicts and fear of migrants.
Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:33 UTC
Falklands' conflict reconciliation: Pope blesses exchange of Virgin of Lujan images

In a conciliatory gesture 37 years after the Falklands War, military bishops from Great Britain and Argentina exchanged images of the Virgin Mary on Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square, blessed by Pope Francis.
Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 18:10 UTC
Brazil following closely the Vatican does Synod fear bad international press

A Brazilian diplomat said last week that the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t fear the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon taking place this month at the Vatican, but that the Catholic bishops “involuntarily reinforce the campaign of the European lobbies, who are very afraid of the competition of Brazilian agriculture.”
Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 08:42 UTC
Vatican's latest financial scandal claims its first victim: Pope Francis' chief bodyguard resigns

The Vatican's latest leaks scandal claimed its first victim on Monday, as Pope Francis' chief bodyguard resigned over the leak of a Vatican police flyer identifying five employees who were suspended as part of a financial investigation.
Saturday, October 12th 2019 - 09:40 UTC
Evangelical churches advancing in Argentina, even in Francis former archdiocese

The pastor's voice bellows through an old converted cinema in a rundown Buenos Aires barrio and hundreds of hands reach out in prayer. Though not a typical place of worship, Evangelical churches like this one are sprouting up all over Pope Francis' former archdiocese, as once staunchly Catholic Argentina battles an economic crisis that has plunged more than one-third of the nation into poverty.
Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:37 UTC
Pope Francis opens Amazon synod calling to listen the “cry of Mother Land” and condemning “destructive interests”

Pope Francis opened a synod Sunday to champion the Amazon's poverty-stricken and isolated indigenous communities by condemning the destructive “interests” he blamed for the fires that devastated the region.
Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:49 UTC
Pope looking into options to recruiting more priests in the Amazon region

A shortage of Catholic priests in the Amazon is eroding the church's influence in the remote region, bishops in Brazil and Peru warn, ahead of a Vatican synod dedicated to the rainforest. Wilmar Santin, one of the scores of Brazilian bishops set to attend the Oct 6-27 gathering, says the church is ceding ground to more nimble Evangelical rivals and needs to lift its game.
Tuesday, September 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC
Image of Virgin of Lujan taken to Falklands during the war to be returned at ceremony blessed by the Pope

An image of Argentina's saint patron, the Virgin of Lujan, which was carried to the Falklands during the 1982 conflict, and remained unaccounted for during years, will be returned by the United Kingdom. In retribution, the Argentine military bishop will hand a replica of the image to the head of British military chaplains in a ceremony to take place next month in the Vatican with Pope Francis blessing the images.