Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:11:27 +0000
Pope Francis will visit African countries Mozambique, Madagascar, and Mauritius in early September, the Vatican announced Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 11:21:46 +0000
RABAT, Morocco – Ahead of Pope Francis arriving in Morocco, the country’s small and diverse Catholic community gathered excitedly at Rabat’s cathedral to get their hands on tickets to see the pontiff.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 11:53:59 +0000
ROME — Pope Francis has crossed the Tiber River for a visit to Rome’s city hall, paying homage to an ancient city that integrated diverse peoples over centuries of its existence.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:06:43 +0000
ROME, Italy – Pope Francis denounced the deceptiveness of “the culture of appearance” in a ceremony marking Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the 40-day period before Easter when Catholics traditionally fast.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:08:28 +0000
Pope Francis has named a Filipino-American priest auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese of Los Angeles (LA) in California. Rev. Msgr. Alejandro D. Aclan, 68, will serve under Archbishop Jose Gomez, and will be…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:25:46 +0000
Pope Francis said Monday he has decided to open up the Vatican archives on World War II-era Pope Pius XII.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2019 06:51:59 +0000
POPE Francis has appointed a Cebu bishop to head the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines. Cebu Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Jaime Florencio, 53, will be succeeding the late Bishop Leopoldo Tumulak. The position has…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:03:33 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, the media and ordinary Catholics outraged over a scandal that has harmed so many and compromised the church’s moral authority so much.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 23:25:44 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday vowed to tackle every single case of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church, comparing pedophilia to “human sacrifice.” But his public address to the Church’s top bishops at the end of a landmark summit in the Vatican on tackling clerical assault of minors threatened to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 22:44:25 +0000
Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with “the wrath of God” felt by the faithful, end the cover-ups by their superiors, and prioritize the victims of this “brazen, aggressive and destructive evil.”
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