Tag: Vatican
The Pope said, “They’re crazy,” and added: “I was embarrassed to hear it.”
Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholic world and President of the Vatican, stated that he is ashamed that some states allocate 2 percent of their gross domestic product…
why Pope Francis’ reform is a revolution
On March 19, a new Apostolic Constitution was published, setting new rules for the functioning of the Curia, the central body of the Catholic Church. Between the desire for decentralization…
Former Pope Benedict XVI asks ‘forgiveness’ for sexual assault scandals
Three weeks after a report implicating him in his handling of sexual assaults on minors in the Archdiocese of Munich, which he led in the early 1980s, the Vatican published…
Pope Francis appoints new ambassador to Turkey
In a written statement from the Vatican, Solczynski, who has been working as an ambassador in Tanzania for the last 5 years, has been appointed as ambassador to Turkey by…
the European Union must dialogue with Russia, pleads France
While European Foreign Ministers are meeting Monday January 24 in Brussels on the subject of Russian-Ukrainian tensions, France pleaded on Sunday January 23 for a direct dialogue between the European…
Pope Benedict XVI implicated by a report on sexual abuse in the German Church
The German Catholic Church is again shaken by a pedophilia scandal. A report on sexual abuse committed since the war in the Archdiocese of Munich paints a bleak picture of…
The bishops of France comforted by Pope Francis in their fight against child crime
On Monday, December 13, the leaders of the Church of France were received at the Vatican and handed over the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Violence in the…
Pope Francis begins four-day trip to the Mediterranean
Pope Francis is expected this Thursday, December 2 in Cyprus, then in Greece on Saturday where he will make his 35th apostolic journey since his election. A four-day trip that…
In his Sunday prayer of the Angelus, the Pope again mentions migrants
Pope Francis expresses his “ pain ”After the recent tragedies involving migrants in the Channel, on the Belarusian border, or in the Mediterranean. At the end of the Sunday prayer…