Like many 86-year-olds, Francis’ activities are often assessed in the context of his age. No longer is he just the pope traveling to the Democratic Republic of Congo; he is the 86-year-old pope. Across the church, bishops a full decade younger are being ushered by rule int...
Pope Francis himself now finds himself in an ever-intensifying existential crisis of his own making. This unprecedented papal predicament is clearly the result of a profound personal, professional and spiritual crisis. Pope Francis officially became the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on 13 March...
The Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Francis I. is the first Jesuit in the papal office and also the first non-European. The Roman Catholic Church experienced a double premiere: for the first time in history there is a Pope who come...
Francis as early as 1216, others hold [Kirsch in "Theologische Quartalschrift", LXXXVIII (Tubingen, 1906), fasc. 1 and 2] that this indulgence is of later origin and that the indulgence which Honorius granted to St. Francis is essentially different from the so-called Portiuncula indulgence....
Pope Francis recently decreed a "new feast day on the liturgical calendar for Mary, 'Mother of the Church.'" Can it be "just another denomination" when it encourages Roman Catholics to go to the "Virgin Mary" for favors instead of Jesus? And by what authority can she be installed as ...
DearHis Holiness, Pope Francis the First, I,a soul,am a lay daughter of the Catholic Church, who loves you very much. I pray for you each day,especially,that you will fulfill the Will of God and for your eternal salvation. I am just one of many billions of people around the world ...
Francis has pledged “zero tolerance” for abuse, but he has also said he never had to confront the issue as archbishop of Buenos Aires, where he served from 1998 to 2013. Recently, he has acknowledged that the church was “late” in recognizing the scale of abuse and the dam...
At one pivotal point Ignatius, led by the grace of God, began to “think and reason to himself. ‘Suppose that I should do what St. Francis did, what St. Dominic did?’ He thus let his thoughts run over many things that seemed good to him, always putting before himself things that ...
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 Central banking, through the fraudulent practice of fractional-reserve banking, has been the culprit in almost every financial calamity that has beset the Western world since the institution was first created. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-09/pope-francis-now-international-monetary...