Category: Vatican

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Church doors must stay open despite terror fears, Pope Francis

Vatican City (Matters India): Pope Francis said today that the doors of Catholic churches around the world must remain open, despite increased security fears in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. “Please, no armoured doors in the Church, everything open,”...

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Archbishop Kurtz on the best thing to come out of the synod

By Matt Hadro. Washington D.C., Nov 16, 2015 / 01:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Families helping families – this may have been one of the greatest “fruits” to come from the Synod on the Family, said the president of the U.S. Bishops Conference...

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Vatican priest arrested

Vatileaks scandal: Vatican priest arrested in hunt For the Holy See’s enemy within Leaks of confidential documents from retired Pope Benedict XVI’s papers in 2012 led to the arrest and trial of a papal butler and a Vatican computer technician...

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Pope Francis says Leaks won’t deter him from reform agenda

Pope Francis waves during his Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Nov. 8, 2015. (REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi) By Rosie Scammell  in National Catholic Reporter,  Nov. 9, 2015 (During Pope Benedict’s time it was “Vatileaks”. It led to his...

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“OWN YOUR HERESY” – continuing the debate on Pope – 2

In the picture: Video still from Pope Francis's audience with his gay former student, Yayo Grassi (left) and his partner Iwan Bagus            (Note: Francis is prophetically critical of neoliberal capitalism, but not so critical of gender and sexuality based...

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Prayer is the treasure of all religions, says Pope

By Ann Schneible. Vatican City, Oct 28, 2015 / 11:04 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis marked Wednesday's anniversary of the Second Vatican Council's declaration on the relation of the Church to non-Christian religion by saying the world looks to religious believers for...

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Existing norms remain for Roman Curia, Pope says

By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Oct 27, 2015 / 02:59 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis has clarified that while the Roman Curia is in the process of being reconstructed, it doesn’t mean there is an absence of law or regulations – the...

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The end of a Big Meet – Matters India on the recent Vatican Synod

Pope, ending synod, excoriates bishops with closed hearts  Vatican City: Pope Francis, ending a contentious bishops’ meeting on family issues, on Saturday excoriated immovable Church leaders who “bury their heads in the sand” and hide behind rigid doctrine while families...

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Rome hosts first Catholic-Muslim cricket match

Rome (Matters India): Sporting history was made in Rome at the weekend as an all-Muslim cricket team played against St Peter’s Cricket Club, comprising Catholic seminarians. St Peter’s won by four runs at the closely contested match at Rome’s Capannelle...