Pope Francis

Pope Francis is shown during Easter Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, in the Vatican, in April. The pontiff underwent scheduled colon surgery Sunday. File Photo by Stefano Spaziani/UPI | License Photo July 4 (UPI) -- Pope Francis, the 84-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church, is resting after colon surgery…

Updated 3 weeks ago · Published on 4 Jul 2021 11:50PM · The Vatican says Pope Francis is admitted to the Gemelli University Hospital ‘for a scheduled surgery for symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon’. – EPA pic, July 4, 2021. POPE Francis, 84, was to undergo surgery today in…

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis went Sunday to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgery for a stenosis, or restriction, of the large intestine, the Vatican said. The brief announcement from the Holy See’s press office didn’t say exactly when the surgery would be performed but said there would be an…

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ROME, Italy — Pope Francis has invited a delegation of indigenous people of Canada to the Vatican in December amidst controversy surrounding the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at Church-run schools for natives. Vatican News reported that the encounter will take place this coming December just before Christmas and…

In this file photo taken on June 1, 2020 people visit the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) which reopened to the public in The Vatican, while the city-state easAn influential Cardinal and nine others will be tried within the Vatican’s legal system over alleged financial wrongdoing, the…

ROME—The Vatican said it indicted Cardinal Giovanni Becciu and nine other people in connection with a costly investment in London real estate, the source of one the biggest scandals of Pope Francis’s reign. Cardinal Becciu, who was the second highest official at the Vatican’s Secretariat of State when it acquired…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican indicted 10 former officials and business partners on Saturday (July 3), including a cardinal, in connection with a controversial investment in property in London that depleted the church’s finances and undermined its credibility. Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 73, who was stripped of his cardinal rights and…

ROME — Pope Francis has agreed to meet in December with Indigenous survivors of Canada's notorious residential schools amid calls for a papal apology for the Catholic Church's role in the abuse and deaths of thousands of native children. The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said Francis had invited the…