Excerpts from his upcoming autobiography reveal that suicide bombers had plotted to attack him during his 2021 visit to Iraq but were eliminated before carrying out the strike.
Monsignor George Jacob Koovakad, a 51-year-old priest from Kerala who organises Pope Francis' international travels since 2020, was among the 21 priests elevated to the rank of cardinal.
Pope Francis called Trump's pledge to enforce massive deportations for immigrants "a grave sin" while slamming Kamala Harris for her stance on abortion, likening it to an "assassination". He called on American Catholics to vote for the "lesser evil" in November.
Pope Francis questioned families in other countries that he says prefer to have pets rather than children. The pontiff said Indonesia is "an example for everyone."
The BJP in Kerala on Sunday hit out at the Congress party in the state over its social media post on Modi's meeting with Pope Francis during the G7 Summit and alleged that it's X handle was seemingly run by "radical Islamists or Urban Naxals."
PM Modi arrived in southern Italy to attend the Outreach session of the G7 Summit and held bilateral talks on a wide range of issues with world leaders. This marks his first foreign trip since taking oath to kick-start his record third term in the Indian Parliament.
Francis became the first pope to address G7 leaders on Friday at their annual gathering in southern Italy. He will address the session on the promises and perils of Artificial Intelligence and is also expected to make a plea for peace across global conflict zones.
On Tuesday, during his meeting with Roman priests, Francis reiterated his stance, expressing that "there seems to be a prevalent atmosphere in the Vatican," suggesting it would be preferable for young men with homosexual inclinations to refrain from entering the seminary.
Pope Francis, widely quoted as having used a highly derogatory word to describe the LGBT community, did not intend to use homophobic language and apologises to anyone offended by it, the Vatican said.
The 87-year-old Pope Francis used the term 'frociaggine', a vulgar Italian term roughly translated as "faggotness" while reiterating that gay people should not be allowed to become priests. Francis has been a leading voice in the Roman Catholic Church for a welcoming approach to the LGBT community.
Pope Francis soldiered through a more than 2-hour Easter Vigil Mass in St Peter's Basilica, one of the longest services in Catholic liturgy, amid renewed concerns about the 87-year-old's frail condition.
Pope Francis has said that Ukraine should have what he called the courage of the "white flag" and negotiate an end to the war with Russia that followed Moscow's full-scale invasion two years ago and that has killed tens of thousands.
Since the original declaration, the Vatican has been at pains to stress that the blessings did not amount to approval of gay sex and should not be seen as anything remotely equivalent to the sacrament of marriage for heterosexual couples.
Recalling that Jesus was born during a census meant to reinforce King David’s power, Francis warned against “the quest for worldly power and might, fame and glory, which measures everything in terms of success, results, numbers and figures, a world obsessed with achievement.”
The new document repeats that condition and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman.
The Vatican said Francis had “relieved” Bishop Joseph Strickland of the pastoral governance of Tyler and appointed the bishop of Austin as the temporary administrator.
Pope Francis and Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics collaborate to establish the Institute for Technology, Ethics, and Culture (ITEC), releasing a handbook titled 'Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap'.
Pope Francis discharged from hospital: 86-year-old pontiff left the Rome hospital in a wheelchair, smiling, waving and saying “thanks” to a crowd of well-wishers,
The pope is undergoing what the Vatican said was a “laparotomy and abdominal wall plastic surgery with prosthesis” to treat a “recurrent, painful and worsening” constriction of the intestine. A laparotomy is open abdominal surgery. It can help a surgeon both diagnose and treat issues. The statement
Odisha Triple Train Accident: Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his grief for the deadly train crash in Odisha's Balasore.
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