The mission of a seminary “is not to form ‘supermen’ who pretend to know and control everything,” but to help seminarians become priests who are humble servants, Pope Francis said.
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Podcast: What a prominent cardinal’s admission of abuse means for the Catholic Church in France
On “Inside the Vatican” this week, host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell explain what is known about Cardinal Ricard’s confession that he “conducted himself in a reprehensible fashion” with a 14 year old girl.
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Ex-Vatican auditor sues church, blaming his firing on ‘the small mafia at the Vatican’
Libero Milone said he is ready to share proof of the financial mismanagement he said he witnessed at Vatican-owned hospitals and in the church bureaucracy.
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Pope Francis on Bahrain: Why did I visit a small, Muslim country? Three words: dialogue, encounter and journey.
Pope Francis recounts his visit to Bahrain and the interfaith dialogue that occurred there: “Meeting each other and praying together, we felt we were of one heart and one soul.”
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Ukrainian archbishop tells Pope Francis: Russia wants to destroy, not negotiate
Pope Francis reiterated the Holy See’s commitment to end the fighting and find a way to obtain “a just peace.”
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Pope: ‘Every time a woman comes in to do a job in the Vatican, things get better’
“A society that erases women from public life is a society that becomes impoverished,” he said.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Exclusive interview: Australian Archbishop Costelloe tells Pope Francis ‘The church in Australia is alive.’
In their first private one-on-one conversation, the president of the Australian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, S.D.B., told Pope Francis, “The church in Australia is alive!”
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Pope Francis slams ‘childlike’ whims of powerful that start wars as Putin’s invasion of Ukraine rages on
Pope Francis joined Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders on Friday in calling for the great religions to work together for peace.
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In Bahrain, Pope Francis calls for full religious freedom and an end to the death penalty
Commitments to protect tolerance and religious freedom need to be put into practice constantly so that these rights may be fully experienced, Pope Francis said.
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Pope Francis in Bahrain: What to know and expect
The pope will meet with the Grand Imam of Al Azhar, Ahmad Al-Tayyeb, at the interreligious meeting “Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence.”