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Pope: Men and women complete each other – there's no other option

Apr 23, 2015

Pope Francis said Wednesday that marriage is a vocation all believers are called to defend, specifically in terms of the complementarity of the union between a man and a woman.
Pope Francis to Cuba: it’s official!

Apr 23, 2015

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. confirmed to journalists today that Pope Francis will make a pastoral stop in Cuba ahead of his September apostolic voyage to the United States.
Pope Francis: If men and women aren't different, we have problems

Apr 22, 2015

Pope Francis has warned against gender theories which seek to eradicate differences between man and woman, saying they perpetuate the very problems they are trying to solve.
Benedict XVI marks 88th birthday with a pint of beer and friends

Apr 22, 2015

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Thursday celebrated his 88th birthday under a sunny Roman sky with a pint of beer and a joyous gathering with family and friends.
Vatican proposes UN agency to fight human trafficking as a crime against humanity

Apr 22, 2015

Human trafficking as a crime against humanity and a United Nations agency dedicated to its eradication are some of the proposals discussed by the plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which ended a five-day conference today in the Vatican.
Pope: Church of today is a "Church of martyrs", many whose throats are cut, who are burnt alive or thrown into the sea "because they are Christians"

Apr 22, 2015

The Church of today is "Church of martyrs", whose throats are cut, who are burnt alive or thrown into the sea "because they are Christians" and also the "hidden martyrs" who are looking for new ways to help brothers and for this are persecuted by "modern Sanhedrins”.
Pope Francis and his growing litany of modern-day martyrs

Apr 22, 2015

Amid a torrent of recent news reports on persecuted Christians, Pope Francis reflected on those killed for their faith and said that these modern “Stephens” suffer as the Church's first martyr did.
Pope: Blood of Christians is crying out to anyone who can still tell good from evil

Apr 21, 2015

He said this in a message Monday to His Holiness Abuna Matthias, patriarch of the Ethiopian Tewahedo Orthodox Church, after the Islamic State (ISIS) released a video Sunday showing the execution of 30 people said to be Ethiopian Christians.
For pope, Jews and Christians have a responsibility to preserve the religious sense of the men and women of today, and that of our society

Apr 21, 2015

"In a society increasingly marked by secularism and threatened by atheism," Jews and Christians "have the blessing but also the responsibility to help preserve the religious sense of the men and women of today, and that of our society, by our witness to the sanctity of God and human life.
Pope on ISIS killings: Blood of Ethiopian Christians 'cries out to be heard'

Apr 21, 2015

Pope Francis voiced his distress at the news of a reported mass execution of Ethiopian Christians in Libya at the hands of ISIS, pleading that their deaths may not go ignored.