While this proposal may draw most media attention, it should not be allowed to eclipse other significant aspects in the document, including the church’s strong commitment to work for justice for indigenous people and the protection of the environment.
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Chilean bishop resigns before ordination over controversial comments
His renunciation did not come as a total surprise given the controversy that erupted in Chile following the priest’s controversial statements after his nomination.
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Pope Francis tells Vatican diplomats: don’t ‘criticize the pope behind his back’
“It is inconceivable to be a pontifical representative and to criticize the pope behind his back, to have a blog or even to unite himself to groups hostile to him, to the [Roman] curia and to the church of Rome,” Pope Francis stated.
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Vatican issues new document criticizing ‘gender theory’
The text explains that “gender theory” expresses an ideology that “denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman.”
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Pope Francis to meet Putin for third time in July
The fact that they are meeting for a third time shows that Putin considers Pope Francis an influential player and moral authority on the global stage.
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Pope Francis to judges: ‘There is no justice when there is inequality’
In a speech to some 100 judges from north, central and south America, Pope Francis emphasized the crucial role of judges in protecting the social, economic and cultural rights of people.
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Pope urges E.U. politicians to avoid 20th century conflicts
After enduring three grueling and demanding days crisscrossing Romania, Pope Francis fielded six questions at a press conference that lasted around 30 minutes during the plane ride home. What came across most strongly was his deep concern over the divisions that have emerged in Europe and the risk that the continent could return to the […]
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A joyous celebration in Romania as Pope Francis beatifies seven bishop-martyrs
These “pastors and martyrs for the faith,” Pope Francis said, “re-appropriated and handed down to the Romanian people a precious legacy that we can sum up in two words: freedom and mercy.”
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Pope Francis calls on Romanian and Hungarian Catholics ‘to live together as brothers and sisters’
“Complicated and sorrow-filled situations from the past must not be forgotten or denied,” he told the assembled during his homily, “yet neither must they be an obstacle or an excuse standing in the way of our desire to live together as brothers and sisters.”
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‘We have set out toward a new Pentecost’: Pope Francis meets with Orthodox leaders in Romania
Pope Francis, in his scripted address, reminded his Orthodox brothers that “the bonds of faith that unite us go back to the Apostles.”