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Pope declares as saints two blessed from Kerala
WITH their canonisation, as the finale of the long-drawn process is known in Catholic parlance, the centuries old Syro Malabar Catholic Church has three Saints, the first being Sister Alphonsa raised to the revered rank in 2008.
Pope says God isn’t a magician, says evolution theory right
"WHEN we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so...He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws," he said.
Christianity is more than a survival guide, Pope insists
IN his daily homily Pope Francis focused on how Jesus heals our sin with the Cross, and emphasizing that Christianity is not merely following a written formula, but rather a person who sacrificed for us.
Pope’s New Year’s message stresses strength, courage, hope
POPE Francis, laying out his hopes Wednesday for the just-begun year, urged people to work for a world where everyone accepts each other's differences and where enemies recognize that they are brothers.
Marxist ideology wrong, but know many good Marxists: Pope
POPE Francis is shrugging off the “Marxist” label that some ultra-conservatives might apply to him because he frets that economic growth doesn’t always...
Pope expels German ‘luxury bishop’ from diocese
THE Vatican didn't say how long bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would spend away from the diocese of Limburg and gave no information on where he would go or what he would do.
African married priests want ‘African Pope’
THE priests say they regret their former church is “allergic” to change. They believe priestly celibacy is neither rooted in the teachings of Jesus nor in the work of his apostles, who were married. And they insist celibacy does not work in an African context.
What would Jesus drive? Pope asks priests to buy ‘humble cars’
AS part of his drive to make the Catholic church more austere and focus on the poor, Francis told young and trainee priests and nuns from around the world that having the latest smartphone or fashion accessory was not the route to happiness.
Vatican dismisses criticism of Pope washing women’s feet
THE Vatican on Friday (March 29) dismissed criticism of Pope Francis' decision to wash the feet of two women during a Maundy Thursday Mass at a Rome youth prison.
New pope slips out of Vatican for morning prayer visit
POPE Francis, barely 12 hours after his election, quietly left the Vatican early on Thursday to pray for guidance at a Rome basilica as he looks to usher a Catholic Church mired in intrigue and scandal into a new age of simplicity and humility.
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