Appalling, Ignorant, and Sad
Last September, Pope Francis canonized an eighteenth century Spanish Franciscan priest, Junipero Serra, drawing attention to his work as a missionary among Native people in Mexico and California. The...
View ArticleExorcism: What does the boom in demand tell us about Pope Francis's Catholic...
Pope Francis is popularly credited with modernising Catholicism and refilling the pews by sheer force of his personality. He is down to earth, avoids obscure theological language, and is willing to...
View ArticleThe Rebel of St. Peter's Square: Where Is Pope Francis Steering the Church?
In the third year of his pontificate, criticism is growing of Pope Francis. Members of the Vatican establishment are turning against him and he even shocks his own staff with his free thinking. Where...
View ArticlePope: OK for babies to suckle in Sistine Chapel
(REUTERS) — Pope Francis baptized 33 infants in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday and told the mothers to feel free to breastfeed them if they cried or were hungry. “You mothers give your children milk and...
View ArticlePope: Fundamentalist terrorism that inspired Paris attacks result of 'deviant...
Published January 12, 2015Associated Press Facebook0 Twitter0 Email Print Pope Francis delivers his message during the Angelus noon prayer at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. Pope Francis on Sunday...
View ArticlePope Francis Tells Mothers 'Don't Worry' About Breastfeeding in the Sistine...
Pope Francis is no stickler about protocol and now that extends to breastfeeding in the Sistine Chapel....
View ArticlePope welcomes 26 babies into church, tells mums to nurse
Some slept, some squirmed, some smiled and some screamed. And a few were named Francesco or Francesca. Pope...
View ArticleFeel free to breastfeed, pope tells mothers at Sistine Chapel baptism
Pontiff baptises 33 infants and departs from prepared text that invited mothers to ‘give them milk’ if children were hungry...
View ArticlePope welcomes 26 babies into church, tells moms to nurse
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Some slept, some squirmed, some smiled and some screamed. And a few were named Francesco or Francesca....
View ArticlePope baptizes 26 babies in celebration of Jesus' baptism
Pope Francis baptized 26 baby boys and girls Sunday, marking the day Catholic doctrine says Jesus was...
View ArticlePope: Fundamentalist terrorism result of 'deviant religion'
Pope Francis has denounced the religious fundamentalism that inspired the Paris massacres and ongoing Mideast conflicts, saying the attackers were enslaved by...
View ArticleThe riddle of Pope Francis
The 78-year-old who lives behind a gas station in Vatican City previously worked as a nightclub bouncer. He'll suffer the white robes of his office, but he won’t abide the red shoes his predecessor...
View ArticleThe riddle of Pope Francis: A welcoming tone, but old-school beliefs
The 78-year-old who lives behind a gas station in Vatican City previously worked as a nightclub bouncer. He'll suffer the white robes of his office, but he won't abide the red shoes his predecessor...
View ArticleHero or horror? Junipero Serra, priest behind Calif. missions, to be made saint
Los Angeles (CNN)Andrew Galvan knows the wound that lingers almost 250 years later, the one that bears upon the genesis of the great American West. The British colonized the East, but here in...
View ArticleWhy is Pope Francis so obsessed with the devil?
(CNN)Pope Francis seems to be obsessed with the devil. His tweets and homilies about the devil, Satan, the Accuser, the Evil One, the Father of Lies, the Ancient Serpent, the Tempter, the Seducer, the...
View ArticleWhen a delivery gave birth to a beatification
It is important that we emulate a saint like Blessed Joseph Vaz, says Fr Urbino Monteiro, the vice-postulator of the Cause of Beatification of Joseph Vaz, speaking of the endeavour over three centuries...
View ArticleProfNet Experts Available on Pope Francis' Visit, Stephen Colbert's 'Late...
, Sept. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Below are experts from the ProfNet network that are available to discuss timely issues in your coverage area. You can also submit a query to the hundreds of thousands...
View ArticleWill Francis Alter Roles, Rules Affecting Catholic Women?
Carol Guensburg Just what is in store for Roman Catholic women under Pope Francis' leadership? For now, that remains a mystery of the faith. The pontiff arrives Tuesday for a six-day visit to the...
View ArticlePope Francis' American Crusade
The pope is taking on climate change and poverty — but his toughest fight may be with the alliance of conservative clerics and right-wing politicians. Vatican Pool/Contrasto/Redux W hen Pope Francis...
View ArticlePope Francis: "God has bestowed on me a healthy dose of unawareness"
ROME.- "God is good to me, he has bestowed on me a healthy dose of unawareness. I just do what I have to do. From the start I said to myself, 'Jorge, don´t change, just keep on being yourself, because...
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