"After eight years, there's a sense... that the act is getting a little bit old," he said. Patrick Ruffini We're pausing our coverage We're pausing our live coverage, but we'll be back soon with more updates from the US. Here is what has happened today: Donald Trump te...
(One of the best global lists of several hundred citizens’ assemblies held around the world in recent years is here). The UK has also seen several smaller, randomly selected citizens’ panels and juries at the local level as well, dealing with topics from the climate to traffic schemes. Th...
Pope Francis and Donald Trump clashed for years over treatment of migrants Pope Francis clashed with Donald Trump several times over the years, primarily on Trump's immigration policy and rhetoric toward migrants. April 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM David Muir speaks with Americans among the last to pay...
Longer term, Ash Wednesday loomed on the horizon March 5, the start of the church’s Lenten season leading up to Holy Week and Easter, which this year falls on April 20. In past years, when Francis has battled bronchitis and influenza in winter, he has had to cut back his participation...
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Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the popemobile after the Easter mass, at St Peter's square in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images Unlike in years past, the 88-year-old pontiff did not celebrate the Easter Mass in the piazza, delegating it to Cardina...
The planned meeting looks like "a public relations ploy," she said. Victims will be looking to see strong action, said Colm O'Gorman, founder of the Dublin-based One in Four advocacy group. "For 20 years, I've said to Vatican, you are not responsible for an individual priest, but you...
Ratzinger’s father was a policeman and his mother a hotel cook. The youngest of three children, Ratzinger was six years old when theNazistook power inGermanyin 1933; his parents, who were staunch Catholics, were hostile to the regime. Ratzinger entered the seminary in 1939. In 1941 he was...
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But, he said, “It isn’t as simple as saying that, ‘You know, at this stage we’re going to change the tradition of the Church after 2,000 years on any one of those points.’” “Perhaps we need to look at a new understanding or different understanding of both leadership, power...