Prior to Pope Francis' election, many analysts had speculated that the cardinals would decide it was time to elect a pontiff who was not European. Like their new pope, more than 40 percent of the world's Catholics are from Latin America. And as the number of Catholics has decreased in Eu...
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTERHe was then canonized, or officially declared a saint in the Catholic Church, by Pope Francis, along with his predecessor Pope John XIII, on April 27, 2014. For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle. Christine...
Gerald Posner:OK, so in the beginning in 2013, when he becomes Pope, I would have said that’s absolutely the case. He’s inherited this sort of orthodox hierarchy of all these conservatives. So Francis has to really be careful. All the knives are out for him. Then by the time he’...
Listen to this article 00:03:06 ROME (AP) — Pope Francis formally approved letting Catholic priests bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced Monday, a radical shift in policy that aimed at making the church more inclusive while maintaining its strict ban on gay marriage...
In Rome, Anthony Monday noted that members of the English college there competed to make the worst insults about Elizabeth –“frying bacon” apparently took on a whole new meaning amongst the seminarians. Essentially Once the Catholics gained power Sir Francis Bacon would be toast – to mix a...
Pope Francis formally approved letting Catholic priests bless same-sex couples, the Vatican announced Monday.
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FILE - Pope Francis, right, greets Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to the start of a meeting with elderly faithful in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sept. 28, 2014. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to r...
"Prior to an agreed understanding at the level of the universal church, it would not be permissible to initiate new official structures or doctrines in the dioceses, which would represent a wound to ecclesial communion and a threat to the unity of the Church," Pope Francis warned the ...
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