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12 Feb 2020, 6:59 am by Tom Smith
Pope Francis has stopped short of allowing the ordination of married men as priests in the Amazon, where there are severe shortages of clergy, calling instead for ordained ministers to come to the region and work alongside lay preachers. [read post]
25 May 2023, 8:45 am by Immigration Prof
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Amy Pope, newly elected director general of the International Organization for Migration, about the U.S. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 9:58 am by Immigration Prof
Big news in El Salvador is that Pope Francis has ruled that Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero died as a martyr, paving the way for his beatification, the step before sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church. [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 11:00 am by Howard Friedman
AP reports that Pope Benedict XVI delivered a homily this morning (full text) at a Mass in St. [read post]
9 May 2009, 4:40 pm
On the first leg of his trip to the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI today was in Jordan. [read post]
13 Feb 2020, 8:56 am by Tom Smith
In his long-awaited exhortation on the Amazon Synod, Querida Amazonia, we find the clearest insight into Pope Francis’s thinking on the vocations crisis, both in the Amazon and across the Western world. [read post]
30 Oct 2021, 5:24 pm by Howard Friedman
President Biden is in Italy for a meeting of G20 leaders, as well as for his meeting with Pope Francis. [read post]
20 Mar 2013, 4:15 am by Howard Friedman
The Washington Post this week reviewed the record of Pope Francis in dealing with sex abuse by priests when he served as Archbishop of Buenos Aires. [read post]
21 Feb 2009, 1:38 pm
Kmiec says: "the Pope's statement has the potential, at least theoretically, to empty the U.S. [read post]
16 Jul 2021, 10:33 am by Tom Smith
ROME — Pope Francis cracked down Friday on the spread of the old Latin Mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI’s signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics who immediately decried it as an attack on them and the ancient liturgy.Francis reimposed restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass that Benedict relaxed in 2007, and went further to limit its use. [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 6:10 pm by Tom Smith
” Catholics will have to make up their own minds—but I’ll admit I have questions about the faith of Pope Francis, which seems, if not weak, at least different from that of the Catholic tradition. [read post]
31 Aug 2018, 11:16 am by Tom Smith
Funny, you can make a similar argument in the press’s defense of the pope. [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 5:20 pm by Tom Smith
" Aboard his plane, the pope defended his approach, telling reporters he had privately prayed for peace, that he just didn't "advertise" it. [read post]
19 Sep 2010, 5:59 am by Howard Friedman
Among the numerous addresses given by Pope Benedict XVI on his current visit to Great Britain was an address to representatives of civil society, academic, cultural and entrepreneurial world, diplomatic corps and religious leaders at Westminster Hall (full text). [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 8:43 am by Tom Smith
” Unsurprisingly, Pope Francis is telling traditionalists attached to the traditional prayers of the Church, “It’s this or nothing. [read post]
27 Jan 2014, 6:34 am by Tom Smith
I want to explore the possibility, however, that the pope might be open to significant revision of the absolute ban on abortion by asking what happens if we take seriously his claim that “reason alone is sufficient” to adjudicate this issue. [read post]
24 Apr 2011, 8:08 am by Howard Friedman
Pope Benedict XVI's Easter message today focused on a number of areas of political conflict around the world. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
DPA reports that Pope Benedict XVI yesterday, on the first day of his trip to Germany where he was born, spoke to the Bundestag. [read post]