Francis ushered in 2025 with a renewed appeal for the Catholic faithful to reject abortion. By Nicole Winfield, Associated PressJanuary 01, 2025 at 0:03pm GMT Pope Francis kicks off year-long Jubilee In his homily, Francis said the Holy Year is an opportunity to relieve the debt of poor ...
Francis has repeated the strict anti-abortion stance of his predecessors and integrated it into his broader condemnation of what he calls today’s “throw-away culture.” He has frequently lamented how the sick, the poor, the elderly and the unborn are considered unworthy of protection and dig...
FORGIVENESS OF POPE FRANCIS TOWARDS WOMEN WHO COMMITTED ABORTION: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF CATLICAS POR EL DERECHO A DECIDIR, A CONTROVERSIAL RESPONSEDEL PILAR CARRASCO ROSALES, VALENTINAStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Ephemerides
"I think in particular of all the women who have resorted to abortion. I am well aware of the pressure that has led them to this decision. I know that it is an existential and moral ordeal," Francis said in a letter to Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of Jubilee initiatives. ...
During his trip to Ireland last month, Francis begged forgiveness for the multitude of abuses suffered by victims in Ireland at the hand of the Church over decades.[L8N1VH096] "I explained to him how it looks to some people that the abusers are being more protected than the victims and ...
While Francis hasn’t publicly weighed in on the soon-expected U.S. Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights, in the past he has decried the political weaponizing of Communion. The new U.S. cardinal, McElroy, holds very different views from Cordileone. He was among the relatively few U....
However, Francis has publically tried to shift the focus of Catholic ministry away from polarizing social issues like abortion and homosexuality to refocus on serving the marginalized and poor. He speaks Spanish, Italian and German fluently. Major Life Events 1958 – Entered the seminary as a ...
The last papal visit to Belgium was in 1995, when Pope John Paul II visited the country. However, Francis addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in 2014. The Pope will not meet European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who is travelling over the weekend, a Commis...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron, accused at home of straining France's secularism by seeking to mend ties with the Catholic Church, discussed topics from Europe and migration to abortion in an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis on Tuesday. The two talked...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk breaks his Twitter silence to share photo of himself and his kids with Pope Francis a week after his son Xavier legally changed gender from male to female The first thing that stands out in the photo posted by Elon Musk of his surprise visit with Pope Francis at...