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13 Jan 2015, 6:20 pm by Tom Smith
COLOMBO — Pope Francis will give Sri Lanka its first Catholic saint on Wednesday, ending a 300-year campaign to recognize the sanctity of an Indian-born missionary who was captured as a suspected spy after he crept into the tropical island in disguise. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 10:34 am by Tom Smith
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis, who recently lamented he can't slip out and get a pizza like he used to, finally got a pie — albeit one hand-delivered to his popemobile. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 7:16 am by Tom Smith
Pope Francis met privately in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a Vatican spokesman confirmed on Wednesday. [read post]
24 Dec 2016, 11:44 am by Tom Smith
VATICAN CITY –  The Order of Malta, the ancient Roman Catholic aristocratic lay order, has told Pope Francis that his decision to launch an investigation into the ouster of a top official over an old condom scandal is "unacceptable. [read post]
3 Oct 2023, 7:18 am
.'"From "Pope Francis suggests gay couples could be blessed in Vatican reversal/Conservative cardinals had challenged the pope to confirm teachings on LGBTQ+ issues" (The Guardian). [read post]
10 May 2019, 8:20 am by Howard Friedman
As previously reported, yesterday Pope Francis issued an Apostolic Letter titled Vos Estis Lux Mundi setting out new procedures for mandatory reportingof sexual abuse to ecclesiastical authorities. [read post]
19 May 2024, 3:00 am by Yosi Yahoudai
Pope Francis, however, had other topics on his mind besides the warming planet. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 4:57 am by Steve Shiffrin
The goal was to spark more global, intellectual, and frank reflection on how the pope’s environmental thinking could help us re-imagine how ecologies and theologies interrelate in the twenty-first century. [read post]
27 Nov 2015, 10:10 am by Tom Smith
GENEVA — Only days before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit the Central African Republic, the United Nations warned on Friday that a resurgence of violence in the conflict-torn nation has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes and increasingly threatens the delivery of humanitarian aid to the impoverished population. [read post]
12 May 2017, 7:46 am by Tom Smith
This is where Pope Francis has made a significant, and perhaps disturbing, change. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 10:10 am by Tom Smith
If true, this would mean that we have one cardinal who was a sanctioned sexual predator, (at least) one cardinal who turned a blind eye to this man’s crimes as they were happening within his jurisdiction, and a pope who didn’t just look the other way but took affirmative steps to help both the criminal and his enabler. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 3:24 pm by Tom Smith
The Economist recently called Francis “the Peronist Pope,” referring to his known sympathies for Argentina’s three-time president, Juan Perón. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 3:24 pm by Tom Smith
The Economist recently called Francis “the Peronist Pope,” referring to his known sympathies for Argentina’s three-time president, Juan Perón. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 8:40 am by Tom Smith
Once again, the liberalizing clericalist regime of Pope Francis is assaulting orthodox laypeople, whose only crime is refusing to reduce Catholicism to a sort of party line, which may be changed at the whim of its leaders. [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 7:14 am by Tom Smith
VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis on Monday criticized abortion as evidence of a "throwaway culture" that wastes people as well as food, saying such a mentality is a threat to world peace. [read post]
11 Apr 2009, 12:04 pm
A few weeks back I posted on what I perceived to be an incorrect suggestion in a Washington Post editorial on the position of Pope Benedict with respect to condom... [read post]