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Pope Francis tried to tone down recent comments that reinforced the doctrinal position on homosexuality being considered a sin. The pontiff said he was referring to official Catholic moral teaching that any sexual act outside of marriage is considered sacrilege. In a note released this Friday (27), Francis recalled that …

However, Francis said, “it can happen that the apostolic ardor, the desire to reach others with the good proclamation of the Gospel, diminishes. When Christian life loses sight of the horizon of the proclamation, it becomes sick: it closes in on itself, it becomes if it is self-referential, it atrophies. …

In front of a crowded São Pedro Square, Pope Francis celebrated, this Thursday morning (5), the funeral of pope emeritus Benedict XVI, who died on the 31st, aged 95. The ceremony began at 9:30 am (5:30 am in Brasilia), under the mist of a cold morning in Rome. At around …

In front of a crowded São Pedro Square, Pope Francis celebrated this Thursday morning (5), the funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died on the 31st, aged 95. The ceremony, which started at 9:30 am (5:30 am, Brasilia time), took place under the mist of a cold morning in …

Joseph Ratzinger, one of the great intellectuals of our time, has died. He was also pope, but I leave those matters to vaticanists and theologians. I already enjoyed reading Ratzinger before Benedict 16 existed. I discovered him in the early years of the 21st century, when reading a dialogue he …

An Italian cardinal investigated for financial crimes recorded, without consent, a telephone conversation with Pope Francis, in which he tried to induce the pontiff to confirm that he had approved confidential movements of money, reported this Friday (25) the local press. The audio has not been made public, but a …

In saying goodbye to the three-day trip to Bahrain, in the Middle East, Pope Francis said on Sunday (6) that women in leadership positions contributed to the Vatican to improve and proved that they can outperform men in the same positions. . “I realized that every time a woman is …

Dalia Ventura – BBC News Mundo posted on 11/06/2022 10:58 He was a Russian aristocrat and she was the daughter of an innkeeper in Italy. But that didn’t stop Prince Mikhail Alekseevich Golitsyn from falling madly in love with Lucia. The condition imposed by her for the marriage was …

A few years ago, at a party, I had a conversation with a nice older gentleman, an Irish-American baby boomer from the northeastern part of the United States. At some point, the conversation turned to family life and the challenges of dragging complaining children into church, and I said something …

A man, identified as Marco Antonio Rosales Contreras, 32, died at the door of the church, murdered by a suspect who was passing through the door of the religious temple. He had just gotten married and was shot four times. The case took place in the city of Caborca, state …