Pope Francis has given King Charles III two shards of wood that the Vatican says are from the "True Cross" on which Jesus Christ was crucified, to be included in the British monarch's upcoming coronation ceremony. The shards will be incorporated into a new cross that will lead the ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10 people – a bishop, priests and laypeople -- from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru after a Vatican investigation uncovered “sadistic” abuses of power, authority and spirituality...
The Church has always understood that the consecrated bread and wine become the body and blood of Jesus Himself and that we are transported in time to the One sacrifice, not re-sacrificing Him over and over again. You are correct, there was only one sacrifice. The people were correct in u...
“Almost immediately, everybody was talking about it.” Charles Camosy, an author and professor of Christian ethics at Fordham University, said it was difficult to know precisely what Francis meant, since he spoke “in pastoral language that is not really meant to be dissected by ac...
Pope Francis was caught slapping a woman's hand repeatedly in a shocking video going around the internet—watch here, and check out his apology.
Francis wasn't the only leader whose mere presence at Easter offered a reassuring sign of stability and normalcy. In Britain, King Charles III joined the queen and other members of the royal family for an Easter service at Windsor Castle in his most significant public outing since he was diag...
he lacked administrative ability and considered the papacy a distraction from hisasceticstruggle for salvation. He distrusted the cardinals and became dependent on KingCharles IIof Naples, with whose supporters he filled the Curia. Further, he favoured his own hermits and the Franciscan Spirituals, wh...
Speaking during a New Year’s Eve vigil, Francis said only God knew “of his sacrifices offered for the good of the church.” ___ LONDON -- Britain’s King Charles III says he received the news of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s death “with deep sadness,” saying he fondly remembers ...
and read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy,Vol. 1 Brooklyn Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience is an interesting phrase. "Civil" connotes "polite" but also "social." You have civil defense, civil services. Gandhi used it against the British, then Martin Luther King against segr...
the rulers of France, Spain, Naples, Portugal, Parma were on the side of the sectarians who flattered their dynastic prejudices and, at least in appearance, worked for the strengthening of the temporal power Francis and changed his baptismal name (Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio) for that of Lorenzo...