Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 17:23:11 +0000
Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and of sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.
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ROME — Pope Francis is urging global decision-makers in both the public and private sectors to help address poverty and hunger in rural areas by engaging the local population as “responsible architects” of progress.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 05:26:08 +0000
Pope Francis will visit an institute for imams that seeks to be a bulwark against Islamic extremism during his March 30-31 visit to Morocco.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:42:28 +0000
The Pope became the first Pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula after a pilgrimage to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:40:22 +0000
PARIS—A 12-year-old animal rights and climate campaigner made an offer on Wednesday Pope Francis may find hard to refuse: Eat vegan during Lent and a million dollars will go to a charity of the Pontiff’s choice. “Your Holiness, we must act,” Genesis Butler, already a veteran activist when she gave her first TedX talk at […]
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:29:44 +0000
A photo circulating on social media showing President Rodrigo Duterte meeting with Pope Francis is fake, AFP said.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:34:03 +0000
The Vatican has clarified comments by Pope Francis about a case of what he called “sexual slavery” within a French congregation of nuns.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:51:42 +0000
Pope Francis said his pilgrimage this week to the UAE wrote a “new page in history of the dialogue between Christianity and Islam.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 22:30:29 +0000
Pope Francis on Tuesday publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns and vowed to do more to fight the problem, the latest sign that there is no end in sight to the Catholic Church’s abuse crisis — and that it now has a reckoning from the #MeToo movement.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 06:29:30 +0000
Pope Francis ministered on Tuesday to the thriving Catholic community in the United Arab Emirates as he concluded his historic visit to the Arabian Peninsula with the first-ever papal Mass here.
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