Pope Francis News
Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to COVID-19
Thousands of people usually line the streets near the area to see the pope and pray with himOnly a limited number of people will be allowed into St. Peter’s Basilica for papal Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Masses
1 min read30 Nov 2020Pope names new cardinals, putting his stamp on Church’s future
The nine new cardinal electors include Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington DC, who will become the first African-American to hold the rankChurch rules usually limit the number of cardinal electors to 120 but popes have bent that limit by naming more
3 min read25 Oct 2020Pope rejects ’erosion of multilateralism’ in UN speech
The pope also made a lengthy appeal for nuclear disarmament, and against militarization in all its formsFrancis’ sharply worded rebuke to the UN did not call out any one nation or leader
2 min read25 Sep 2020Pope: Gossiping is ’plague worse than COVID’
Pope Francis strayed from his prepared text to double down on his frequent complaint about gossiping within church communities and even within the Vatican bureaucracy
1 min read6 Sep 2020Pope set to make first trip since pandemic to saint’s town
Francis has repeatedly stressed how the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically revealed how fragile existence can be and how vitally important it is for people to unite in helping each otherFrancis will celebrate Mass near St. Francis’ tomb, which is under the lower level of the Basilica of St. Francis
2 min read5 Sep 2020Pope warns rich countries against coronavirus vaccine nationalism
Pope Francis warned the world of vaccine nationalism by richer countriesHe indeed and with WHO have urged the countries and companies to be benevolent regarding equal distribution of vaccine
1 min read19 Aug 2020Pope Francis ’very pained’ by decision to turn Hagia Sophia museum into mosque
’My thoughts go to Istanbul. I think of Santa Sophia and I am very pained,’ he said during his weekly blessing in St. Peter’s Square
1 min read12 Jul 2020Pope celebrates Palm Sunday sans public, urges courage as global death toll tops 65,000
US President Donald Trump has already warned Americans to brace for a ’very horrendous’ number of deaths in the coming daysThere are currently 1.2 mn people confirmed to be infected by the virus globally
4 min read5 Apr 2020Pope ’tests negative for coronavirus’ as Vatican ups controls
Pope Francis cancelled a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy this weekend, after axing all public meetings at the end of last week over the cold
2 min read3 Mar 2020Pope, blaming a cold, skips Lent retreat; Vatican dismisses link to coronavirus
This is the first time a pope has missed annual retreat since 1950A coughing Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a cold
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