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Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Saturday dismissed US bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent conservative who had repeatedly criticised his papacy, following concerns over the clergyman's leadership and governance. The Vatican did not explain the move, a rare sacking in the Catholic Church, where troublesome senior clerics are normally encouraged -- or told -- to resign. But a US cardinal said it was linked to an inquiry ordered by Francis into "all aspects of governance and leadership" of Strickland's Tyler diocese in Texas. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, also of Texas, said the so-called apos...
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Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis on Saturday dismissed US bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent conservative who has repeatedly criticised his papacy, the Vatican announced. The rare decision to remove a senior Catholic figure came after Francis sent two US bishops to visit Strickland's Texas diocese in June. "The Holy Father has relieved from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Tyler (US) Joseph E. Strickland," the Vatican said in a statement. It said the bishop of Austin, Joe Vasquez, had been named as apostolic administrator of the diocese, but gave no further details. The Vatican h...
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Vatican City (AFP) - Not far from the Vatican, where hundreds of Catholics have gathered to debate the future of the Church, purple-clad activists make their voices heard against the "patriarchy", chanting "Ordain women priests!" . The place of women in the Catholic Church -- led for 2,000 years by a man, and which outlaws abortion, female priests and does not recognise divorce -- is one of the hot topics at the general assembly of the Synod of Bishops taking place over four weeks. Women campaigning for change have come to Rome to make their case, from Europe and the United States to Australia...
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Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis met Friday with the wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as he nears the "endgame" of his fight against extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Francis, the head of the worldwide Catholic Church, "received in audience Ms Stella Assange, with family members," the Vatican said in a short statement. On Twitter, Stella Assange said she and her children had been given a private audience with the 86-year-old Argentine pontiff, adding: "We are overwhelmed." Julian Assange is in prison in Britain, fighting extradition to the US, where he faces tria...
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Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of interviews, one of which triggered a diplomatic spat with Nicaragua. "It seems like yesterday," the 86-year-old recalled of his election during a podcast for the official Vatican News outlet -- after first having to be told what a podcast was. Asked what he would like as a gift for his 10-year anniversary, for which he had no public plans beyond a mass with cardinals, Francis added: "Peace. We need peace." Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope on March 13, 2013, ...
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Vatican City (AFP) - Tens of thousands of people paid their respects on Monday to former pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, at the start of three days of lying-in-state in St Peter's Basilica before his funeral. They began queueing before dawn to view the German theologian's body, which was transferred early in the morning from the monastery in the Vatican grounds where he died on Saturday aged 95. "I arrived at 6:00 am, it seemed normal to come and pay homage to him after all he did for the church," said an Italian nun, sister Anna-Maria, near the front of the line that snaked around the vast...
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Vatican City (AFP) - Thousands of people are set to gather Sunday in St Peter's Square to hear Pope Francis deliver his Christmas Day message, where he is expected to offer prayers for war-torn Ukraine. The head of the Catholic Church will address the faithful from the central balcony of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, before delivering the "Urbi et Orbi" blessing ("to the city and the world"). The 86-year-old is expected to focus on the brutal conflict in Ukraine in his speech, which is broadcast on television and radio around the world. Pope Francis has called for peace ever since Russia...
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Rome (AFP) - US President Joe Biden praised Pope Francis on Sunday for his empathy and humanity, calling the pontiff "a fine, decent, honourable man". "This is a man who is someone who is looking to establish peace and decency and honour, not just in the Catholic Church but just generically," Biden said during a press conference at the culmination of the two-day G20 summit in Rome. Biden, a devout Catholic who regularly attends church, choked up while describing how the pope comforted his family following the 2015 death from cancer of his son, Beau, when Biden was vice president. During a visi...
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Rome (AFP) - President Joe Biden admitted Friday to "clumsy" dealings with France following a bitter row over a submarine deal, at the start of a European trip designed to show off US leadership -- and mend some fences. The president deployed a charm offensive with French President Emmanuel Macron in their first meeting since Paris erupted last month over news of a new US-UK-Australia submarine deal that left its own multibillion deal with Canberra in tatters. "What we did was clumsy, it was not done with a lot of grace," Biden told Macron in Rome, where both are gathered for this weekend's le...
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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden, America's second Catholic president, and his wife Jill will have an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29, the White House announced Thursday. Biden's Vatican visit will come ahead of his participation in the G20 summit in Rome on October 30-31. From Italy, he is scheduled to travel to Glasgow for the COP26 climate change summit. "They will discuss working together on efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity, including ending the Covid-19 pandemic, tackling the climate crisis, and caring for the poor," the White Hou...
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