It will be a demanding trip health-wise for the 84-year-old pontiff coming just two months after his colon operation on July 4.
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German archbishop pledges to name pastoral minister for LGBT community
Archbishop Koch said he regarded the double marginalization of Catholic gays — within the Catholic community as well as in the LGBTQ community — as “problematic and painful.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Lesson from Hungary: Anti-Catholicism is not a good response to anti-L.G.B.T.Q. laws
Some activists in Hungary have reacted to an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. law by calling for an investigation of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, writes Marc Roscoe Loustau. But turning the crisis into a political football may backfire.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
F*scist is still a bad word. And your political enemy probably isn’t one.
Fascism has proved sufficiently elastic to be used as a term of abuse across the political spectrum.
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Pope Francis announces visit to Hungary and Slovakia in September
Before going to the hospital for colon surgery July 4, Pope Francis told a crowd in St. Peter’s Square that he would be visiting Hungary and Slovakia Sept. 12-15.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: ‘Lourdes’ (the documentary) is much more than miraculous
‘Lourdes’ is a film of dignity, charity and profundity—one in which hope is made palpable.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The man who paved the way for the European Union is one step closer to sainthood
The Vatican said Pope Francis on Saturday approved a decree declaring the “heroic virtues” of Schuman, a former prime minister, finance minister and foreign minister for France after World War II.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How (and why) 8,000 migrants breached the Spanish-Moroccan border — and what it says about Europe’s migration crisis
Relations between Morocco and Spain are complex, fraught with clashing political and economic interests—with thousands of migrants caught in the middle.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Explainer: Cardinal Marx wasn’t accused of sexual abuse or cover-up. So why has he offered to resign?
Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s offer to resign as archbishop of Munich and Freising hit the church in Germany and Rome like an earthquake. And while survivors welcomed the move, not everyone agrees with the cardinal’s analysis of the abuse crisis.