VATICAN: On the occasion of his Christmas message, the Pope regretted the number of conflicts and tensions in the world A message of peace for Christmas. This Sunday, on the occasion of his message sent from the Vatican, Pope Francis called for “silencing the guns” in Ukraine, in the grip of a “senseless war”. “May our gaze be filled with the […]
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RELIGION: Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was thinking of coming to Marseille to meet the bishops during the Mediterranean forum scheduled for 2023 Pope Francis said on Sunday he planned to visit Marseille in 2023 for a meeting of bishops on the Mediterranean. “Next year I may go to Marseilles for the Meeting of the Mediterranean,” he confided in an interview […]
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WISHES: In his traditional Christmas message, Pope Francis also asks for access to the vaccine for all Pope Francis insisted this Friday in his traditional Christmas Day message on “the need for fraternity” across the continents in this period of the pandemic. “At this historic moment, marked by the ecological crisis, and by serious economic and social imbalances aggravated by […]
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For the sovereign pontiff, Pope Francis this will be the first trip abroad since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pope Francis will travel to Iraq from March 5th to 8th, 2021, his first trip abroad since the beginning of the pandemic, and a historic first for a pope announced Monday the Holy See. An “apostolic journey” […]
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The fires that ravaged the Amazon this summer are at the heart of the synod that opened in the Vatican Sunday 6th October 2019 bringing together 113 bishops from the Panamazonian zone. The Pope Francis denounced Sunday 6th October 2019 “the greed of new colonialism” and lamented the fires lit “by interests that destroy,” by opening a synod dedicated to […]
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All clergy are now required by law to report sexual abuse. Dioceses around the world will also facilitate public reporting. This is another step forward in the fight against pedophilia and sexual abuse in the Church . The Pope Francis unveiled Thursday 9th May, 2019 a stricter legislation forcing priests and religious to report to the Church suspicion of sexual assault or harassment, […]
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RELIGION: The Pope trusts in a book of interviews to be published in early September … Women, communism, psychoanalysis and migrants … The Pope trusts in a book of interviews * forthcoming early in September. From first excerpts of the book, entitled Politics and society and born of the dialogue between the Pope and the French researcher Dominique Wolton, are […]
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RELIGION: Private security and many police officers to reassure the faithful … Thousands of faithful came to listen. Pope Francis began Sunday to celebrate the traditional Easter Mass in the square of the Basilica of St. Peter’s. A Mass framed by impressive security measures. Easter Mass, the highlight of the Christian liturgy began at 10am, under […]
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Five members of the French Council of the Muslim Faith will meet the Pope at the Vatican on the 3rd November according to information France Bleu Gard Lozère. Members of the collective leadership of the Executive Board, the President, the three Vice-Presidents and Secretary General, Abdallah Zekri, will be received in private audience by Pope […]
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Gay Friendly, Francois? Not that much. The pope may well have said in 2013 that he did not “judge a person [who] is gay, and [that] seeks the Lord with good will” , his benevolence towards homosexuals has limits. Including those of the Vatican. As revealed by The Duck chained , the pontiff refused to […]
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