On Saturday, December 31, the honorary Pope Benedict XVI, a German theologian who tried to revive Christianity in a secularized Europe, died. He will forever be remembered as the first pontiff to retire in 600 years. He was 95 years old, writes Yahoo!. Pope Francis...
Pope Francis visited the Russian embassy on February 25 to personally "express his concerns about the war" in Ukraine, in an unprecedented departure from diplomatic protocol. APNews writes about it. Usually popes receive ambassadors and heads of state in the Vatican, and diplomatic protocol...
Pope Francis has come out in support of the legalization of same-sex unions, writes Meduza. He made a corresponding statement in the documentary film “Francesco” about himself, which premiered on October 21 at the Rome Film Festival. “Homosexuals have the right to a family. They are children of God. Us…
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. This is their third meeting. As in previous times, Putin was late. The conversation between Putin and the pope lasted about an hour - as provided for in the protocol of the pontiff’s meetings with foreign guests. At the end…
The Vatican's ambassador to France, Luigi Ventura, has been charged with indecent behavior and harassment. And this is not the first case in the Vatican, as Pope Francis even said. The 74-year-old cleric is accused of sexually harassing a junior employee of the Paris City Hall on the day of the official…
On the official website of the Vatican on January 24, a message from Pope Francis was published, timed to coincide with the World Day of Social Communication - a holiday established by the Roman Catholic Church (this year it will be celebrated on May 13). Francis dedicated his message to fake news. It says that he was the first in history to spread false information ...
Pope Francis said the Roman Catholic Church should change the translation of the phrase "...and lead us not into temptation..." in the Lord's Prayer, Christianity's most famous prayer, Reuters reports. “This is not a good translation,” the pope said in a television interview Wednesday night. As he writes...
Lamborghini presented Pope Francis with a unique example of the Huracan sports car. The Pope has put his signature on the hood of the car and intends to put it up for auction at Sotheby's. All proceeds from the sale of the supercar will go to charity. As Radio Vatican writes, ...
Pope Francis believes that responsibility for climate change lies with every inhabitant of planet Earth, and denying the fact of climate change is stupid. The Pontiff advised those who do not recognize them to turn to scientists for facts, TASS writes. “Why doesn’t someone admit...
Pope Francis, who arrived on a visit to Armenia, confirmed his attitude towards the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last century, calling it genocide and condemning this crime. In 2015, the pontiff already used the term “the first genocide of the XNUMXth century,” which...