Pope Francis

Pope Francis on Saturday condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as "cruelty", sparking a sharp response from Israel which accused him of double standards. The pontiff made his remarks a day after the rescue agency in Gaza said an Israeli air strike had killed seven children from one family.…

Pope Francis delivers the "Urbi et Orbi" blessing from the balcony of St Peter's basilica after the Easter Sunday Mass on March 31. On Saturday he urged people to forgo gossip while embracing family and humility. File Photo by Stefano Spaziani/UPI | License Photo Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Gossip causes…

“The people say it very well: Gossip is zero” Published December 21, 2024 10:50AM (EST) Pope Francis waves to the faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square on June 12, 2024, in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images) If the 2024 film “Conclave” dramatized…

Pope Francis told Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday to stop speaking ill of one another, as he once again used his annual Christmas greetings to admonish the back-stabbing and gossiping among his closest collaborators. A wheezing and congested sounding Francis, who just turned 88, urged the prelates instead to speak well…

Outgoing US President Joe Biden is reportedly considering commuting the sentences of most, if not all, of the 40 men on the federal government’s death row, according to a new report. This includes a handful to well-known notorious killers, five of the men murdered children, nine butchered fellow inmates and…

President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he is picking the head of a right-wing Catholic advocacy group and critic of Pope Francis to serve as ambassador to the Holy See, potentially teeing up tensions with the Vatican. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Brian Burch...Read More

“There is no other way to understand this decision than as a deliberate adoption of the Palestinian narrative,” Chikliwrote to Pope Francis. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF DECEMBER 20, 2024 10:12 Updated: DECEMBER 20, 2024 13:37 Israeli minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli and Pope Francis. (Illustrative) (photo credit: Canva, PXFUEL,…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will meet with Pope Francis in January, likely the president's final international trip just days before he leaves the Oval Office, the White House announced on Thursday. Biden accepted Francis' invitation to visit the Vatican during a Thursday phone call with the pope, the White…

Amichai Chikli speaks at the Federation of Local Authorities conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2022. (Photo: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) Following several instances in recent months where Pope Francis appeared to endorse Palestinian narratives, Amichai Chikli, Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, issued a strongly worded protest letter to…

(The Conversation) — Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 – the beginning of spring in Buenos Aires – during a spontaneous visit to the confessional, or what Catholics call the sacrament of reconciliation.…