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close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for March 21 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... Pope Francis released" Praedicate Evanglium," or" Proclaiming the Gospel," a 54-page text that replaces the founding constitution" Pastor Bonus" penned by St.... Normally, the release of papal documents is announced in advance, with the text provided to accredited journalists ahead of time under embargo and in various languages....

VATICAN CITY( Reuters)-Pope Francis said in an interview published on Monday he is confident critics of his decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples will eventually understand it, except for Africans who are" a special case".... Blessings were allowed last month in a document called Fiducia Supplicans( Supplicating Trust), which has caused widespread debate in the Catholic Church, with particularly strong resistance coming from African bishops.... 11, and that finally visiting the coun

VATICAN CITY( Reuters)-The Vatican opposes the criminalisation of homosexuality as practiced by a number of countries with the support of Catholic groups, the head of the Vatican's doctrine office said on Monday. Presenting a publication which reaffirmed the Vatican's opposition to sex changes, gender theory and surrogate parenthood, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez called laws punishing homosexuality" a big problem" and said:" of course we are not in favour of criminalisation." Fernandez, a lib

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for June 22 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... Pope Francis, who was born in Argentina, was the first non-European to fill the role in over 1, 200 years.... I too have to use a walking stick now." Michael Lee is a writer at Fox News....

ROME — A U.S.-based group that tracks how the Catholic hierarchy deals with allegations of sexual abuse by clergy says Pope Francis made a “ troubling ” choice in appointing an Argentine prelate to a powerful Vatican office that handles such cases.On Saturday, the Vatican announcedthe pontiff had pickedMonsignor Victor Manuel Fernández, archbishop of La Plata, Argentina, to head the Holy See’s watchdog office for doctrinal orthodoxy.... Fernández “ should have been investigated, not promoted to

close Video Pope Francis meets Ukrainian young people in Portugal Pope Francis on Thursday met with Ukrainian young people in Lisbon, Portugal.... Authorities were apparently tipped off about the Ulmas harboring Jews, who were also killed. Beatifying Wiktoria’s unborn child posed a challenge for the Vatican: the child was not yet baptized, which is required for beatification and martyrdom.... Robert Gahl told the Associated Press that the Catholic Church's beatification of the child affirmed t

Francis waded head-on into the scandal roiling the Portuguese church upon his arrival in Lisbon, where he is spending five days for the first World Youth Day Catholic festival since the COVID-19 pandemic.... ADVERTISEMENT A panel of experts hired by the Portuguese church reported in February that priests and other church personnel may have abused at least 4, 815 boys and girls since 1950.... People wait outside the Palacio Nacional de Belem presidential palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, Aug....

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for December 23 Fox News Flash top headlines are here.... Check out what's clicking on Foxnews. com. Following the Vatican's publication of Fiducia Supplicans — a document outlining when individuals in same-sex or otherwise" irregular" couples can be blessed — the worldwide Catholic Church has seen battle lines forming around its application. While early disputations came from African prelates in countries such as Nigeria, Zambia, Cameroon, and Malawi, n

Join our Whatsapp channel Pope Francis’s condition “ continues to be critical ”, the Vatican said on Saturday, saying the 88-year-old was alert but had suffered a respiratory attack that required “ high-flow oxygen ”, and also blood transfusions.“ At the moment the prognosis is reserved, ” it said, as the head of the Catholic Church prepared to spend his ninth night in Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where he was diagnosed this week with double pneumonia.“ The holy father’s condition continues to be cr