Amid wall debate, Pope visits Panama with migration in mind

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 05:24:30 +0000

Amid wall debate, pope visits Panama with migration in mind

Pope Francis is looking to leave the sex abuse scandal buffeting his papacy behind as he heads to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump’s promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border and a new caravan of migrants heading north.

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Pope Francis warns vs soulless hunt for profit

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 21:24:53 +0000

‘LEARN FROM MOMS’ In a New Year Mass on Tuesday, Pope Francis urges Catholics to allow themselves to be led again as children are led by their mothers. AP

In his first message of the year, Pope Francis bemoaned the lack of unity across the world and warned against a soulless hunt for profit that benefits only a few.

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Pope urges more ‘sharing and giving’ in Christmas mass

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 22:15:13 +0000

Pope Francis kisses a figurine of baby Jesus during a mass on Christmas eve on December 24, 2018 at St Peter's basilica in the Vatican. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Monday assailed the “insatiable greed” of today’s consumerism, calling on people in his Christmas homily to make “sharing and giving” more a part of their lives. “Mankind became greedy and voracious,” the leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics said in an address to thousands of followers in Saint […]

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Sanctions, sex abuse and silence: A primer on the pope saga

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2018 file photo, Pope Francis is caught in pensive mood during his weekly general audience at the Vatican. Francis' papacy has been thrown into crisis by accusations that he covered-up sexual misconduct by ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Two weeks after Pope Francis’ papacy was thrown into crisis by accusations that he covered-up sexual misconduct by ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Francis has refused to respond, his accuser has changed his story and a host of new characters have entered the fray.

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Pope on ‘priestly’ sex abuse: ‘We showed no care for the little ones’

Pope Francis issued a letter to Catholics around the world Monday condemning the “crime” of priestly sexual abuse and its cover-up and demanding accountability, in response to new revelations in the United States of decades of misconduct by the Catholic Church.

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