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Fiducia supplicans ("Supplicating Trust") [1] is a 2023 declaration on Catholic doctrine that allows Catholic priests to bless couples who are not considered to be married according to church teaching, including same-sex couples. [2] [3] Subtitled "On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings", the document is dated 18 December 2023 and was released on ...
Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has authorized the beatification of 1,524 people, including two equipollent [clarification needed] beatification. The names listed below are from the Holy See website and are listed by year, then date.
The canonisation Mass for Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII, was celebrated by Pope Francis (with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), on 27 April 2014 in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican (John Paul II had died on vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday in 2005). About 150 cardinals and 700 bishops concelebrated the Mass, and at least 500,000 people attended ...
2015. Pope Francis visited Sri Lanka on 13–15 January and the Philippines (15–19) in January. [26] [27] [28] In Sri Lanka he paid pastoral visits to Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu in Madhu and Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka. [29] Pope Francis's visit to Philippines was the fourth papal visit to the island nation.
Published. November 2013. Publisher. La Esfera de los Libros. Pages. 328 (paperback) ISBN. 978-0-8294-4217-5. Pope Francis: Life and Revolution is a 2013 biography of Pope Francis, written by Elisabetta Piqué, Vatican correspondent for the La Nación Argentine newspaper.
Pope Innocent III ( Latin: Innocentius III; 22 February 1161 – 16 July 1216), [1] born Lotario dei Conti di Segni (anglicized as Lothar of Segni ), was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1198 until his death on 16 July 1216. Pope Innocent was one of the most powerful and influential of the medieval ...
Pope Francis has close ties to the Jewish community of Argentina, and attended Rosh Hashanah (Jewish new year) services in 2007 at a synagogue in Buenos Aires. He told the Jewish congregation during his visit that he went to the synagogue to examine his heart, "like a pilgrim, together with you, my elder brothers". [66]
