Tag: Vatican

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 08:33 UTC

  Pope Francis meets Cristina Fernandez; 150 world leaders expected for Tuesday’s ceremony

  

  The Vatican Press Office has announced that Pope Francis will meet Argentine President Cristina Fernández on Monday at 8.50 AM Buenos Aires time. It will be the first official meeting the pontiff holds with a head of state.

• Saturday, March 16th 2013 - 03:43 UTC

  Falklands: PM Cameron anticipates Argentina’s intention of having Francis involved in the dispute

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron stated on Friday that Pope Francis had been wrong to say last year that Britain had “usurped” the Falkland Islands from Argentina, saying he respectfully disagreed with the new Pontiff. His words have been interpreted as a message anticipating the Argentine government’s possible attempts to get the new pope involved in the dispute.

• Thursday, March 14th 2013 - 03:04 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez will attend inauguration mass for Francis I

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández will be attending the official ceremony installing Jorge Ramon Bergoglio as Francis I which is scheduled to take place next March 19. The announcement was made by the presidential office.

• Thursday, March 14th 2013 - 02:14 UTC

  Three firsts for Habemus Papus: Argentine, Jesuit and announced in twitter

  

  Three firsts for the new Pope: Argentine, Jesuit and his election by fellow cardinals was announced by twitter. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is a theological conservative with a strong social conscience, and a modest man who declined the archbishop's luxurious residence to live in a simple apartment and travel by public transport.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 07:40 UTC

  Cardinals’ conclave to elect new pope begins; a first non-European in the cards

  

  Roman Catholic Church cardinals will file into the 15th-century Sistine Chapel on Tuesday to begin their secret election of a successor to retired Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinals under the voting-age limit of 80, totaling 115 are scheduled to begin their conclave at 4:30 p.m. in Rome after asking for God’s guidance at a mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

• Saturday, March 9th 2013 - 04:32 UTC

  Cardinals begin conclave Tuesday for new Pope; demands for more transparency

  

  Catholic cardinals gathered in Rome voted Friday to begin the conclave, to elect a new pope next Tuesday afternoon, the Vatican said. The 115 cardinal-electors taking part in the conclave will enter the closed-door process after a morning Mass and only cardinals younger than 80 are eligible to vote.

• Saturday, March 2nd 2013 - 08:27 UTC

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

  

  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.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 06:00 UTC

  Benedict XVI admits deep trouble in the Church; next Pope before Palm Sunday

  

  Bidding an emotional farewell to a huge crowd gathered in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI indirectly acknowledged Wednesday that his nearly eight years as head of the Roman Catholic Church have not always been easy.

• Monday, February 18th 2013 - 06:39 UTC

  Scandal-hit Vatican bank tries to make clean start but again stumbles

  

  The Vatican appointed a German lawyer to head its bank, but the bid to turn the fortunes of the scandal-hit institution was clouded by his business links to a military shipbuilder.

• Tuesday, August 14th 2012 - 07:42 UTC

  Pope’s former butler and a computer expert to stand trial for “aggravated theft”

  

  Vatican magistrate ordered Pope Benedict's former butler to stand trial on charges of aggravated theft for leaking documents alleging corruption in the Vatican. In a 35-page document on the case which has rocked the Holy See since Paolo Gabriele was arrested last May, the Vatican also charged a computer expert who worked in the Vatican bureaucracy with involvement in the case, the first mention of a second man.