Tag: Vatican

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Lula receives papal blessing at the Vatican; not a word in Francis official agenda

  

  Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva met on Thursday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, received a papal blessing and said the two discussed prospects for a “more just and fraternal world.”

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 10:34 UTC

  Francis expected to receive ex president Lula at the Vatican next Thursday

  

  Pope Francis will receive former Brazilian president Lula de Silva next February 13, according to reports advanced by the country's media and later confirmed by Lula in his twitter account.

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:45 UTC

  Pope Francis appoints a Uruguayan secretary; Father Gonzalo works with street children and drug addicts

  

  Pope Francis has chosen as his new private secretary the Rev. Gonzalo Aemilius, a 40-year-old Uruguayan priest who worked with street children and drug addicts, whom he has known for many years, the Vatican announced.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Pope Francis and president Alberto Fernandez examined Argentine problems

  

  A smiling Pope Francis welcomed the new president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, to the Vatican on Friday morning and then spoke with him in a private audience for 45 minutes, signaling that good relations exist between the two leaders and suggesting that this could perhaps open the door for the pontiff’s first visit to his homeland since his election—though the president later said they did not discuss this.

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentine president meets Pope Francis, and later Italian premier and president

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernandez is in Italy, the first leg of his tour of Europe, which begins Friday with an official visit to Pope Francis, and Italian leadership, after which he will concentrate on trying to renegotiate the country's burdensome national debt.

• Friday, January 17th 2020 - 10:33 UTC

  Vatican rejects nominee as Argentine ambassador; Fernandez meets the Pope at the end of the month

  

  The Argentine government has been forced to review the appointment of Luis Bellando as ambassador before the Vatican since his placet was not accepted by the Holy See. “The mechanics of the foreign ministry is to send first the names of diplomatic candidates since the host country must agree with the names proposed, so in this case, we will review the issue and reviews if a new consensus is needed to send another candidate as ambassador or representative to the Vatican”, cabinet chief Santiago Cafiero said.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  Benedict trying to distance himself from a controversial book with passages on celibacy

  

  Retired former pope Benedict XVI sought to calm a dispute within the Vatican on Tuesday, claiming his name was erroneously attributed as co-author to a new book with a conservative cardinal.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Pope Francis kisses nun, as long “as you stay calm and don't bite”

  

  Pope Francis, who last month angrily slapped the hand of a woman who yanked him towards her, gave a light-hearted reaction more typical of his papacy on Wednesday when a nun asked him for a kiss. He said yes, although only after she promised not to bite him.

• 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.