Tag: Vatican

• Monday, September 5th 2016 - 06:48 UTC

  Pope Francis sad with Roussesff's removal and invites to pray for social justice in Brazil

  

  Pope Francis called for people to pray to the Aparecida Virgin to protect “all of Brazil and all of the Brazilian people in this very sad moment”, in reference to the removal of Dilma Rousseff as president and her replacement by vice-president and interim president Michel Temer, which occurred last week.

• Thursday, September 1st 2016 - 10:10 UTC

  Pope declines request to help select judges for Colombia's peace tribunal

  

  The Vatican announced Wednesday that, although Pope Francis is pleased about a peace deal between the government of Colombia and the country’s guerrillas, he has declined a request to have a Vatican envoy help select judges for a new peace tribunal.

• Monday, July 4th 2016 - 09:20 UTC

  Pope Francis at peace with Macri: denies any problems, “he's a noble person”

  

  Pope Francis said he has no problems with Argentine president Mauricio Macri, whom he described as a well born, noble person, revealing that in the past, as mayor and archbishop of Buenos Aires, they had differences but always addressed them in private and positively.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2016 - 12:15 UTC

  “No animosity at all towards the president”, said Macorra following a meeting with Pope Francis

  

  “There is no animosity”, said Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra after meeting with Pope Francis in Rome on the sidelines of an event sponsored by the United Nations, just days after the pontiff publicly rejected a multi-million-peso “donation” from the administration of President Mauricio Macri destined for the pope’s Scholas Occurrentes program.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2016 - 05:25 UTC

  Francis resumes dialogue in the Vatican with the higherst authority of Sunni Islam

  

  Francis has met the grand imam of Cairo's al-Azhar mosque after a five-year pause in dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the mosque, the highest authority of Sunni Islam. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb visited the Vatican en route to a Paris conference involving Muslims and Catholics.

• Saturday, April 2nd 2016 - 09:17 UTC

  Another 'money-sin' in the Vatican: this time involves a former cardinal's penthouse

  The Vatican said it is investigating two former officials over claims money meant for a children’s hospital was used to refurbish a cardinal’s luxury apartment. Costly work at former Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s flat, (seeming to clash with Pope Francis’s recommendations that church officials live as modestly as he), caused a scandal when allegations emerged that the Bambino Gesu Hospital foundation had helped foot the bill.

• Friday, January 29th 2016 - 03:54 UTC

  Pope Francis receives Macri at the Vatican 27 February

  

  Pope Francis will be receiving President Mauricio Macri on February 27, the first official meeting between both leaders since Macri took office in December. The meeting was confirmed by government sources.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2015 - 07:24 UTC

  Francis non papal message to Macri: 'a simple matter of protocol'

  

  How come the Argentine born pope Francis did not send a congratulation telegram, or formal message to president elect Mauricio Macri on his victory, has been an ongoing question. But Vatican sources pointed out there was no special reason for that attitude, but merely “a simple matter of protocol”.

• Thursday, November 5th 2015 - 06:13 UTC

  Francis battle to combat Vatican corruption and out of control spending exposed in two books

  

  The scale of the challenge facing Pope Francis as he struggles to overhaul the Vatican’s finances was exposed on Wednesday by the publication of confidential documents and private recordings of his meetings. In effect just months after his election in 2013, Francis demanded a clampdown on uncontrolled spending by the Vatican.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2015 - 09:07 UTC

  Pope warns militants could slip into Europe in the midst of the wave of refugees

  

  Pope Francis has warned against the risk that militants could slip into Europe under cover of a huge wave of refugees fleeing war in Syria but also said the migrant crisis could help reawaken the continent's conscience.