Documentary and feature film makers don’t usually expect Popes to collaborate with feature film makers and answer hot questions from around the world. Francis is the first Pope to do this in a new feature film. Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Pope Francis’
Synod dedicated to Amazon mooted
Monday, May 22nd, 2017Pope Francis would like a Synod to be dedicated to the indigenous people of the Amazon. The Synod would include Amazonian people in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. Read more
Medjugorje apparitions – yes, no says Pope
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
Only some of the Medjugorje apparitions are likely to be authentic, Pope Francis said during an in-flight interview after canonising Saints Jacinta and Francisco last weekend. He was referring to alleged apparitions of Our Lady who is said to have appeared 35 years ago to six children in Medjugorje. Since then, three of the “children” Read more
What the Jesuit pope told the Jesuit general
Monday, May 15th, 2017
The Spaniard who was until earlier this year Superior General of the Jesuits has written a series of reminiscences about his conversations with Pope Francis, published in two parts in the Spanish Jesuit publication Mensajero. Father Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, wrote them while spending some weeks in his native country before heading for the Philippines capital, Read more
Bolivian President asks Pope for help
Monday, May 15th, 2017
The Bolivian President Evo Morales asked for Pope Francis to help with nine Bolivians who have been imprisoned in Chile. Morales has asked for a papal envoy to help calm “rising tensions and a miscarriage of justice”. “I beg you to intervene in the best possible way to quickly resolve this case,” he wrote to Read more
Vatican’s backlog of 2000 sexual abuse cases
Monday, May 15th, 2017
The Vatican has admitted it has a backlog of 2000 clerical sexual abuse cases. Despite this, Pope Francis said the Vatican is on “the right path” to resolving each of them. Francis has always made it clear that he has “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse. Speaking during an in-flight interview after leaving Fatima about the Vatican’s Read more
Fátima’s saints – Fransisco and Jacinta canonised
Monday, May 15th, 2017
Pope Francis made a pilgrimage to Fátima on Saturday to canonise two of the three shepherd children Our Lady appeared to 100 years ago. Jacinta and Francisco Marto, who died in 1919 are now “Saint Jacinta and Saint Francisco”. (The third “child”, their cousin Lucia, died in 2005.) Thousands of pilgrims lined Francis’s route and Read more
Pope’s special blessing for sick people
Monday, May 15th, 2017Pope Francis gave a special blessing to the sick who came to the Fatima shrine on Saturday. After canonising Saints Jacinta and Francisco, Francis spoke to the sick, reminding them “whenever we experience a cross,” Jesus “has already been there ahead of us.” Read more
Pope hopes to open doors with Trump
Monday, May 15th, 2017Pope Francis says he hopes he will be able to “open doors” when he meets with US President Donald Trump at the Vatican on 24 May. Francis told reporters he will listen to the President’s views before making judgements about him. Read more
Vatican – science, faith and the big bang
Thursday, May 11th, 2017
A conference themed around the big bang is being held at the Vatican Observatory this week in honour of Monsignor George Lemaitre SJ who came up with the theory in 1927. Pope Francis called for the conference. The agenda the world leading scientists, astrophysicists, cosmologists and other experts are discussing includes “black holes, gravitational waves Read more