Pope Francis has a hip ailment and this has been the cause of him sometimes limping during his recent visit to Cuba and the United States. A Vatican spokesman said the Holy Father regularly gets physical therapy to address the problem. The 78-year-old Pontiff has been observed walking slowly with faltering steps and getting help Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Pope Francis’
Pope Francis visit to Ireland a distinct possibility
Friday, October 2nd, 2015During this month’s synod on the family, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin will speak to Pope Francis about a possible papal visit to Ireland in 2018. Speculation is growing about a papal visit after it was announced that the next World Meeting of Families would be in Dublin in 2018. Archbishop Martin said Francis is Read more
At UN, Pope links environment destruction and exclusion
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
Pope Francis spent much of his address to the United Nations in New York connecting environmental destruction with social and economic exclusion. “A selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged,” he said on Friday. Francis Read more
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- Michael Sean Winters’ take on Pope Francis at the UN
- Full text of Pope Francis’s address at Ground Zero
- Pope embraces Washington’s hungry, says there is no justification for homelessness
- Pope praises US nuns
- Pope makes surprise visit to Little Sisters of the Poor to show support
Pope meets abuse victims, expresses sorrow and shame
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
Pope Francis met with victims of sexual abuse in Philadelphia on Sunday and told them words could not express his sorrow. The pope met with five adults who had suffered abuse as children. The victims had been abused by the clergy or by members of their families or their teachers. Francis heard their stories and spoke Read more
- After criticism, Pope confronts clergy sex abuse
- The clergy sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church
- Pope takes thinly veiled swipe at Donald Trump
- Pope visits US prison, says confinement not same as exclusion
- Pope says religious freedom a ‘fundamental right’
- Pope Mass at Madison Square Gardens
- Catholic Church runs America’s welfare state
- Pope pushes Catholic hospitals, clinics to do more to help the poor
Hillary Clinton says she will follow Pope’s lead on climate
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
Hillary Clinton says she will follow Pope Francis’s example and make combating climate change a top priority for any future US administration she leads. Writing in the National Catholic Reporter, Mrs Clinton stated as “a person of faith, a mother, and a grandmother, I am deeply moved by Pope Francis’s recent teachings on climate change Read more
Scientist faults Pope on population control and climate
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
A scientist famous for demographic doom-saying has criticised Pope Francis for not admitting population control is needed to tackle climate change. Paul Ehrlich said Pope Francis is simply wrong in trying to fight climate change without also addressing the strain on global resources from population rise. “That’s raving nonsense,” the scientist said. Ehrlich wrote on Read more
On last day in US, Pope criticises narrow, unbalanced faith
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015
Preaching before more than one million people in Philadelphia, Pope Francis argued strongly against a narrow approach to faith. At a Mass at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on September 27, the Pope expanded on readings of the day in which Jesus and Moses chided their followers for narrowness. “To raise doubts about the working of Read more
Pope Francis shown Māori tukutuku panels
Tuesday, September 29th, 2015The tukutuku panels were handmade by 40 Māori weavers and were presented to the UN earlier this year in addition to New Zealand’s original rimu wall, which was gifted in 1952. Each of the panels has its own unique story: some are traditional, while others were designed especially for the UN. Prime Minister John Key Read more
Pope praises US bishops’ response to abuse crisis
Friday, September 25th, 2015
Pope Francis has hailed the “courage” shown by United States bishops in facing up to the clergy sex abuse crisis. Speaking to about 400 bishops in Washington, DC, on September 23, the Pope said the bishops had regained the authority and trust which was demanded of them. He also praised the bishops for being ready Read more
Pope declares controversial Junipero Serra a saint
Friday, September 25th, 2015
Pope Francis has declared controversial Franciscan missionary Junipero Serra a saint, in a move which has drawn criticism from Native Americans. At a Mass outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, on September 23, Serra became the first saint canonised on US soil. The Pope praised Serra’s treatment Read more