Perhaps predictably, Catholics who have come to view Pope Francis as a threat to the clarity of church teaching could only see the worst in the pope’s angry reaction to the grasping pilgrim.
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Inclusion of ‘ecological sin’ in catechism prompts debate
Ecological sin was discussed at length during Synod of Bishops for the Amazon in October
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Pope Francis begins New Year with apology for hand slap, prayers for peace
Pope Francis had slapped a pilgrim’s hand in an incident that quickly went viral on Twitter. Departing from his prepared text the next day, he said that “love makes us patient. We often lose our patience; me, too, and I apologize for my bad example last night.”
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Top Stories from the Vatican in 2019 (and what’s next in 2020)
For our New Year’s Day episode of “Inside the Vatican,” the hosts look back at some of the biggest Vatican stories of 2019.
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Vatican magazine looks at women in the church in the age of Pope Francis
“Women and Francis” is the theme of the January 2020 issue of Women-Church-World, a monthly supplement to L’Osservatore Romano. It was released Dec. 28.
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Review: Pope Francis, the church’s spiritual director
Seeing Pope Francis as spiritual director means seeing that the pope takes himself less seriously than do his critics and defenders.
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Pope Francis prays Christmas softens hardened hearts to bring peace and justice
Pope Francis prayed that Jesus would “bring his smile, through our poor faces, to all the children of the world: to those who are abandoned and those who suffer violence.
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Change and reform: Unpacking Pope Francis’ Christmas address to the curia
On this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” the hosts talk about why the pope chose this theme for his speech, who he spoke to, and how these Christmas addresses fit into the pope’s larger effort to reform the Roman curia.
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Pope Francis tells Roman Curia: Do not fear change, it is in the nature of the missionary church
Pope Francis stressed the need for reform and a new approach to evangelization in his annual Christmas address to the Roman Curia. America‘s Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell, reports.