EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming documentary Fighting Spirit: A Combat Chaplains Journey has received the rare honor of a screening at the Vatican. The film written and directed by Rich Hull and Justin D. Roberts – a former combat chaplain himself – is produced by Paulist Productions and the U.S. Army Chaplains …
Read More »I hear your voice, it’s like an angel sighing… You’d think this 1989 song would be beloved by religious music fans all over the world, thanks to its many theological references. But Madonna’s hit Like a Prayer was mired in so much controversy when it was released that it was …
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EXCLUSIVE: Pope Francis is issuing a renewed plea for peace in Ukraine after attending a rare screening on the Vatican of Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary Freedom on Fireplace: Ukraine’s Combat for Freedom. The screening on the New Synod Corridor inside the partitions of the Vatican came about on the one-year anniversary …
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Pope Francis with a baby on his shoulders – graffiti in Rome Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm, sweden) Wednesday, February 08, 2023 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb 08 (IPS) – When the Pope Emeritus Benedict XIV/Ratzinger died on the final day of 2022 it didn’t trigger a lot of a …
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Pope Francis subsequent week will go to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan to ship a message of peace and reconciliation to 2 international locations hit by battle. The pontiff will begin his journey on Tuesday within the Congolese capital Kinshasa, the place he’ll keep till Friday …
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Pope Francis has criticised legal guidelines that criminalise homosexuality as “unjust”, saying God loves all his kids simply as they’re and referred to as on Catholic bishops who help the legal guidelines to welcome LGBTQ individuals into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis mentioned throughout an interview on …
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One of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida, has died aged 95. Bringing much-needed glamour and pizzazz to the post-war period, she stirred hearts whether as an onscreen gypsy, queen or single mother. Humphrey Bogart, who she starred opposite in her breakthrough movie …
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Comment on this story Comment VATICAN CITY — The Australian cardinal who decried the papacy of Pope Francis as a “catastrophe” was given a funeral Saturday and hailed by some fellow churchmen at St. Peter’s Basilica, with the pontiff imparting a final blessing for the once high-ranking Vatican prelate. Cardinal …
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Comment on this story Comment VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ own role in the investigation into financial wrongdoing at the Holy See took center stage Friday in the Vatican tribunal, with witnesses saying he encouraged a key suspect to cooperate with prosecutors and a key defendant accusing him of interfering …
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Pope Francis has ordered an investigation reopened into the mysterious disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old Vatican citizen who vanished from the streets of Rome in 1983. It comes only months after a hit Netflix documentary put the case in the global spotlight, and just weeks following her family’s calls for …
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Head of the Catholic Church slams Russia’s warfare in Ukraine and Iran’s remedy of protesters. In his yearly tackle to diplomats, Pope Francis has denounced Russia’s warfare in Ukraine, Iran’s remedy of protesters and the damaging of presidency buildings in Brazil by followers of the nation’s far-right ex-president. The speech on …
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VATICAN CITY : Though Pope Francis typically in contrast having former Pope Benedict residing within the Vatican to having a grandfather in the home, a e book by Benedict’s closest aide exhibits what he says had been strains whereas two males sporting white lived within the tiny city-state. Benedict was …
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