Pope Francis has fired all officials of the Catholic charity organization, Caritas Internationalis, including its president, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, after an independent review found “deficiencies” in management and procedures.
Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed a temporary administrator to run Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based Catholic charity network, after outside experts highlighted management and procedural “deficiencies”.
House Deputy Speaker and Cebu Rep. Duke Frasco said his meeting with His Holiness Pope Francis in Vatican City was “humbling and spiritual.”
Pope Francis said Sunday that the Catholic church was working “as best we can” to fight clerical child abuse but admitted there were shortfalls.
The 85-year-old Argentine decried the “opposing blocs” of East and West, a veiled reference to the standoff over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a speech to religious leaders in the tiny Gulf state.
Human rights should not be “violated”, Pope Francis said Thursday after he arrived in the Gulf state of Bahrain, which has been criticised by rights groups for alleged abuses.
Pope Francis will become the first pontiff in history to visit Bahrain, in a trip this week that is hoped will cement ties with Islam but is also marked by accusations of human rights abuses in the Gulf state.
Pope Francis warned seminarians in Rome of the dangers of online pornography, in a transcript published by the Vatican Wednesday, calling soft porn a temptation that “weakens the priestly heart”.
Pope Francis repeated his support for the abolition of the death penalty on the 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Pope Francis on Sunday urged the world to learn from history on the threat of nuclear war over Ukraine and choose the path of peace.
