Pope Francis

Europe 12/13/21, 15:10

A Vatican official apologized to the LGBT community for initially removing from the official website a link to reference material from a controversial U.S. 'Catholic branch' that works to include homosexuals and transgender people in the church. The Vatican reinstated the link after issuing an official apology. Thierry Bonaventura, the Vatican's ...

World 12/07/21, 21:31

Pope Francis' health condition is so serious that people close to him do not believe he will live past next year, says Newsmax chief political columnist and White House correspondent John Gizzi. Gizzi cites reliable Vatican contacts as a source, including "the secretary of one of the most powerful Vatican cardinals," ...

U.S. 10/29/21, 17:21

President Biden met with Pope Francis at the Vatican amid strong criticism due to his support for abortion. He said the Pope called him a good Christian and invited him to continue to receive communion in the Catholic Church.  On his tour with the final objective of attending the G20 conference, ...

Europe 10/18/21, 15:38

Pope Francis gave a virtual address for the "Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements" on Oct. 16 and praised the protests that ended in violent riots by the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement. He called the protestors in the U.S. following the death in police custody of George Floyd "good ...

News 09/21/21, 03:26

Beginning Oct. 1, visitors, tourists, and employees entering Vatican territory will be required to show a so-called Green Pass, a digital or paper certificate indicating they have been vaccinated, tested negative, or recovered from COVID-19, by order of Pope Francis.The Green Pass expands the European Union's COVID-19 certificate, making travel ...

Europe 09/15/21, 17:32

On Wednesday, Sept. 15, the Vatican's highest authority rejected the resignation of the archbishop of Hamburg, who has serious allegations of sexual abuse. The German Catholic Church is facing a world-scale scandal over allegations that during 2018 alone, 3677 people were reported to have been sexually abused under the complicity ...

Middle East 09/01/21, 18:55

Pope Francis was highly critical of the West's recent involvement in Afghanistan, mistakenly quoting Russian President Vladimir Putin while thinking he was quoting Germany's Angela Merkel. "It’s necessary to stop the irresponsible policy of enforcing its own values on others and attempts to build democracy in other countries based on outside ...

News 08/18/21, 21:07

The National Catholic Bioethics Center (NCBC) issued a statement on Tuesday, Aug. 17, pressing authorities to "tailor" restrictions so that people who do not wish to receive a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus (COVID-19) vaccine for reasons of conscience can do so without suffering discrimination. In its statement, the NCBC ...

Europe 08/10/21, 15:47

Emmanuel Abayisenga, a Rwandan illegal immigrant, confessed on Aug. 9 to murdering the French priest, Olivier Maire, 60, who housed him for several months. Abayisenga had also confessed to having set fire to Nantes Cathedral on July 18, 2020. An investigation revealed that he entered France in 2012 and had met ...

Europe 08/09/21, 21:22

Investigators are examining an envelope with three bullets inside, and why this was posted to the world's highest-ranking Catholic leader. Authorities intercepted the suspicious container in Milan, Italy, on Aug. 9. Although the back of the envelope had no sender details, Carabinieri Provincial Command confirmed the front face had a French ...

Europe 07/27/21, 18:23

Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, one of Pope Francis' potential successors, will be tried along with nine other people for possible embezzlement and other crimes against the Vatican's portfolio of assets, including donations from numerous faithful. A two-year investigation uncovered a web of scandals contained in 500 pages of indictments and ...

U.S. 07/22/21, 03:00

Bishops around the world began issuing restrictions against the traditional liturgy after Pope Francis issued his new motu proprio restricting the celebration of the traditional liturgy. However, some prelates have granted temporary permissions for the current status quo to continue. On Friday, July 16, Pope Francis published Traditionis Custodes, a new ...

Opinion 07/19/21, 16:42

Pope Francis finally spoke about Cuba but he made a peculiar request to the Cubans who are fighting for their freedom. The Pontiff gave his first Angelus this Sunday, July 18, from the Vatican after undergoing surgery for a colon problem, and yes, he said something about what is happening in ...

Europe 07/18/21, 17:11

Pope Francis just took a hard line against conservative Catholics, rescinding inclusive measures by his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI and placing additional limits on the traditional Latin Mass. Pope Francis' unexpected crackdown enraged many conservatives, who warned that it could push many Catholics out of ...

U.S. 06/29/21, 20:05

Pope Francis sent a handwritten letter to controversial Father James Martin on the eve of an 'LGBTQ Catholic webinar' praising him for 'imitating God's way' despite the priest in question being repeatedly denounced for promoting homosexuality at his Masses. The Pope's letter was in response to an initial letter from Father ...

China 05/30/21, 19:34

China has imposed new draconian regulations requiring clergy to follow the essential values of communism and promote the 'sinicization of religion'—using intimidation of criminal repercussions—in a further blow to Pope Francis' secret Sino-Vatican concordat. The Communist Party of China's (CCP) State Bureau of Religious Affairs (SBRA) on May 1 released the ...

U.S. 04/09/21, 01:44

Democrat President Biden declared gun violence a disease that affects many people and has a significant impact on national health, loss of life, and even the economy. "Gun violence in this country is an epidemic," he said in a statement. "Let me say it again: gun violence in this country is ...

Washington 04/05/21, 00:05

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden released an Easter video and used prayer time to make people feel guilty about postponing the CCP Virus (COVID-19) jab. Biden suggested every American, who refuses the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus vaccine, cannot tell the difference between right and wrong. "We share the ...

U.S. 03/16/21, 09:06

In an extensive interview that will be published as a book this Tuesday, March 16, Pope Francis spoke of a post-pandemic world scenario where humanity will have to embrace a "new world order" with aggressively environmentalist policies and the supposed elimination of social injustice, a term used by the left ...

U.S. 01/05/21, 08:39

The phenomenon of immigration and open borders, a topic that arouses the interest of globalism and leftist ideas, received a boost from the Vatican on Sunday, Jan. 3, after one of the most difficult stages of Jesus's childhood was taken out of context. Through a tweet, the Vatican's Office for Migrants ...