Pope Francis

Vaccines have always met the wall of hesitancy although over time that hurdle has become easier to surmount. When India’s efforts to eradicate smallpox through a national programme in 1962 failed to meet its targets, people’s hesitation was countered with aggressive surveillance and coercion. The universally acclaimed polio immunisation drive,…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has asked Pope Francis to come to Canada to apologize for church-run boarding schools were hundreds of unmarked graves have now been found By ROB GILLIES Associated Press June 25, 2021, 8:36 PM • 5 min read TORONTO -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said…

News Grevic Alvarado Friday 25 June 2021 File photo: Illegal Venezuelan migrants arrive in a pirogue at Los Iros beach in Cedros in November 2020. The Catholic Commission for Social Justice (CCSJ) and the Archdiocese Ministry for Migrants and Refugees (AMMR) launched their digital magazine The Advocate on Thursday at…

Roman Catholic Archbishop of Regina Donald Bolen says the meeting between Indigenous leaders and Pope Francis will take place before the end of the year. Author of the article: Alec Salloum Roman Catholic archbishop of Regina Donald Bolen, seen here in a photo taken on Monday, July 11, 2016., says…

Pope Francis greets Mattia Villardita, a young man in the Spider-Man costume. Franco Origlia/Getty Images Pope Francis had an unusual encounter at his Wednesday audience meeting a Spider-Man impersonator who usually dons the outfit to entertain sick children. Italian Mattia Villardita, 28, has been performing in paediatric hospitals dressed as…

Spider-Man Amazing Meeting with The Pope 6/23/2021 7:23 AM PT Pope Francis may be a superhero in the Catholic church, but he came face-to-face with a guy who's a hero to children everywhere ... including kids in hospitals he visits to cheer them up. The Pope met with an amazing…

In a Sunday address at the Vatican, Pope Francis joined calls from Myanmar bishops to allow places of worship to remain “neutral spaces of refuge” and called for the establishment of “humanitarian corridors.” With the Bishops of Myanmar I plead that humanitarian corridors be allowed and that churches, pagodas, monasteries,…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Big oil companies in the United States and Europe were forced to come to terms with their role in climate change last month after shareholders, including large mutual funds and private equity firms, pressured the companies to shift their long-criticized environmental policies. The shareholder rebellions at…

Published June 20, 2021 10:06pm VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Sunday appealed to Myanmar's military leaders to allow aid to reach displaced, hungry people who have fled fighting since the Feb. 1 coup and to respect religious sites as places of sanctuary. Speaking at his Sunday blessing to crowds…

Catholic Bishops agreed Friday to prepare a document that would restrict Catholic politicians who support abortion rights, including Joe Biden, from receiving Communion.  The measure, which had drawn objections from the Vatican and Pope Francis’ strongest allies, required only a simple majority but passed with 73 percent of the 229…