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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 11:23 UTC

Tag: Synod of Bishops

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

    Pope prepared to discuss the issue of divorced and remarried Catholics

    “The problem cannot be reduced merely to a matter of who can receive communion or not”, said Pope Francis

    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, March 2nd 2013 - 08:27 UTC

    On Monday congregation of cardinals begins process to vote for a new Pope

    Brazil’s Odilo Scherer and Leonardo Sandri from Argentina among the “papabile”

    On the first day that the Church is without a Pope, Cardinal Angelo Sodano announced that the first general congregation of cardinals will take place next Monday morning. Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Dean of the College of Cardinals, made the date public in an official letter sent to the world’s cardinal on Friday March first.