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Pope Francis urged humanity to respect all God’s creatures and the environment in a homily to a crowd of some 200,000 people and a broader audience across the world as he was inaugurated as the 266th bishop of Rome.
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Pope Francis said mercy can change the world in his first Sunday Angelus prayer as pontiff after earlier personally greeting worshipers who had attended mass in the Vatican.
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The Vatican rejected as “old and totally unfounded” accusations that Pope Francis didn’t speak out enough against Argentina’s former military dictatorship and was complicit in the kidnapping and torture of two activist priests.
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Pope Francis ventured outside the Vatican’s walls to pray at a Roman basilica and pay his hotel bill the day after becoming the first Roman Catholic leader to hail from outside Europe in more than 1,200 years.
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Pope Francis is emulating the revered saint whose name he took in actions as well as words.
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Pope Francis, who had part of a lung removed at age 21 because of illness, probably won’t be physically restricted in any way as a result.
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Roman Catholic cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel for a third round of voting after they failed to elect a successor to retired Benedict XVI in their morning ballots.
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Roman Catholic cardinals failed to elect a successor to retired Pope Benedict XVI as black smoke rose over St. Peter’s Basilica signaling an inconclusive vote.
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Roman Catholic cardinals failed to elect a successor to retired Pope Benedict XVI as black smoke rose over St. Peter’s Basilica signaling an inconclusive vote.
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Roman Catholic cardinals are going silent as divisions open up in their debate about when to start the secret Vatican conclave to pick a successor to retired Pope Benedict XVI.
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