ROME — Human beings have despoiled the earth, sinned against the earth, and “its response will be very ugly,” Pope Francis said Wednesday in a message for Earth Day 2020. We have “failed to care for the earth,” we have “sinned against the earth,” the pope said during his Wednesday audience. “And how does the…
ROME — Pope Francis said he believes the Chinese coronavirus pandemic is “certainly nature’s response” to humanity’s failure to address the “partial catastrophes” wrought by human-induced climate change. Asked by British journalist Austen Ivereigh whether the COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for an “ecological conversion,” the pontiff reasserted his belief that humanity has provoked nature…
Just 24 hours after he expressed public support for the people suffering from coronavirus around the world, Pope Francis has fallen ill. “I wish, again, to express my closeness to those who are ill with coronavirus and to healthcare workers who are caring for them,” Pope Francis said on Wednesday. He was visibly ill during…
Football players, coaches, and fans are typically a superstitious lot. Even if an advantage is just a perceived one, it is still an advantage and worth having. So, if the 49ers want every possible advantage they can get heading into Super Bowl LIV, they may want to send Pope Francis a Jimmy Garoppolo jersey ASAP.…
ROME — Pope Francis made migrants the centerpiece of his Christmas blessing Wednesday, addressing the topic of immigration a remarkable three times in an 865-word message. “May the newborn Lord bring light to the people of Africa, where persistent social and political situations often force individuals to migrate, depriving them of a home and family,”…
Vatican City (AFP) – Pope Francis ushered in Christmas on Wednesday for the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics with a message of unconditional love, saying “God continues to love us all, even the worst of us”. “You may have mistaken ideas, you may have made a complete mess of things, but the Lord continues to love…
Dec. 24 (UPI) — Pope Francis highlighted God’s willingness to bring his love to “even the worst of us” during his Christmas Eve Mass. Speaking before thousands of people in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, the Pope focused on the theme of God “bringing salvation to all,” including those who believe they have “made…
ROME — Pope Francis has further dug in his heels as the anti-populist pope, writing in the forward to a new book that organized citizens in action are the “antidote to populism.” In his forward to The Eruption of Popular Movements: The Rerum Novarum of Our Time, the pope waxes poetic, praising so-called “popular movements” as “a…
