Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 02 Jun 2019 23:00:06 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is warning that the Europe Union risks losing its influence and very essence as a unified bloc if political leaders don’t reawaken the dreams of its founding fathers.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 13:48:00 +0000
A day after the European Parliament elections, Pope Francis issued his annual message on migrants
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 12:07:24 +0000
Pope Francis has acknowledged the situation of Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David and said he would pray for the bishop.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 06:21:33 +0000
POPE Francis has named Cebu Auxiliary Bishop Dennis Villarojo as the new bishop of Malolos diocese, succeeding the late bishop Jose Oliveros. The appointment of Villarojo, 52, was announced on May…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 13:24:12 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis says he may add a South Sudan leg onto his Africa trip in September if conditions there are “mature.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 10:20:15 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up by their superiors to church authorities, in a groundbreaking new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 09:17:14 +0000
Pope Francis is ministering to Bulgaria’s young Catholics, travelling to the Catholic stronghold of Rakovsky for a First Communion Mass.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 10:24:27 +0000
Pope Francis urged Bulgarians on Sunday to open their hearts and homes to migrants, arguing that a country like Bulgaria, which is losing so much of its population to emigration, should well understand the forces that drive people to leave their native lands.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 03:15:06 +0000
Pope Francis arrives in Bulgaria but the Orthodox Church has rejected the idea of holding joint prayers with the pontiff.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 23:25:31 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis denounced the “cruel violence” of the Easter Sunday slaughter of Christians and foreigners in Sri Lanka as he celebrated the most joyful moment on the Christian liturgical calendar by lamenting the bloodshed and political violence afflicting many parts of the world.
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