Cardinal Pietro Parolin said some of the problems identified by current and former Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital staff in 2014 were “truly unfounded.” But for problems that were verified, there is a “serious effort to resolve them.”
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‘Pope’s hospital’ put children at risk as it chased profits
The mission of the Vatican hospital is “today more aimed at profit than on caring for children,” according to a report from the AP.
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Pope Francis calls for respecting Gard parents’ wishes to care for dying child
Pope Francis called for respecting the wishes of a terminally ill child’s parents to accompany and care for their child “until the end.” Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, said the pope was following “with affection and emotion” the events concerning Charlie Gard, a 10-month-old infant born in England with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, which causes progressive […]
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Pope Francis appoints Spanish Jesuit Ladaria to replace Müller at CDF
This appointment ensures that the C.D.F. is rowing with and not against the pope on key issues, including the interpretation of “Amoris Laetitia,” synodality and cooperation with the commission for the protection of minors.
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Fresh from consistory, new cardinals greet family, friends
While Europe has played a significantly weighty role in the development of Christianity, “now we see how the church is growing in numbers in Latin America, in Africa and in Asia. The pope is making this clear. This universal character of the church is very beautiful.”
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Pope Francis tells archbishops not to be ‘armchair Catholics,’ but apostles on the go
People must ask themselves whether they are “‘armchair Catholics,’ who love to chat about how things are going in the church and the world,” Pope Francis said, or if they are “apostles on the go,” who are on fire with love for God and ready to offer their lives for him.
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Pope Francis’ message of inclusion to guide U.S. Catholic leaders at historic meeting on evangelization
Some 160 bishops and 200 Catholic organizations will gather in Orlando to consider how the U.S. church can better promote the Gospel.
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Australian police charge Cardinal Pell with sex offenses
Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ chief financial adviser and Australia’s most senior Catholic, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever be charged in the church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal.
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Pope Francis appoints five new cardinals
Pope Francis tells five new cardinals not to become ‘princes’ but to serve like Jesus.
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Pope Francis tells five new cardinals not to become ‘princes’ but to serve like Jesus
Jesus “has not called you to become ‘princes’ in the church,” the pope said, but “to serve like him and with him.”