Tag: Vatican

• 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, March 14th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

  Nuncio expelled from Nicaragua, opposition leader found guilty

  

  Vatican authorities have condemned over the weekend the decision by Nicaragua's regime of Commander Daniel Ortega to expel the nuncio from Managua. The Central American government's measure was enacted a week ago but not until this weekend was it made public, it was reported.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 07:42 UTC

  Pope Francis recovering well after colon surgery

  

  Pope Francis was recovering well after undergoing colon surgery Sunday at the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital in Rome, according to the first medical report.

• Monday, July 5th 2021 - 02:55 UTC

  Pope Francis recovering well after colon surgery

  

  Pope Francis was recovering well after undergoing colon surgery Sunday at the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital in Rome, according to the first medical report.

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Ex Pope Benedict admits “some of his fanatical friends are still upset” with his resignation

  

  Former pope Benedict has chided conservative Roman Catholics who have not accepted his decision to resign as “fanatical”, telling them that there is only one pope and it is Francis.

• Sunday, February 28th 2021 - 10:15 UTC

  Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, “I will not return to Argentina”

  

  Pope Francis expects to die in Rome, still the Catholic pontiff, without returning to spend his final days in his native Argentina, according to a new book titled The Health Of Popes.

• Monday, January 18th 2021 - 08:13 UTC

  Pope Francis repeats he's eager to visit Uruguay and Argentina

  

  Pope Francis told Uruguay’s new ambassador to the Holy See that a future visit to the country as well as to his native Argentina is still very much on the table. In an interview with Catholic News Service last week, Guzman Carriquiry, who prior to his appointment as Uruguay’s ambassador served as secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, said he decided to ask the pope about the long-awaited visit when he presented his letters of credential Jan. 9.