Argentina car crash kills 3 of Pope Francis' relatives
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Three relatives of Pope Francis died and a fourth was in serious condition Tuesday after their car crashed on a provincial highway in Argentina, the Vatican and local officials said. Emanuel Bergoglio, the 38-year-old son of a brother of Pope Francis, was hospitalized. He s ...
Twitter : Le pape François plus populaire que Chris Brown et Beyoncé avec ses 15 millions de followers
Le Pape François est désormais la personnalité religieuse la plus connectée au monde ! Si le Vatican voulait dépoussiérer son image et reconquérir le jeune public, on peut dire que l'opération est plus que réussie avec la présence stratégique du Pape François sur les réseaux sociaux. En effet, juste ...
Sic transit gloria mundi
by Greg Mayer We don’t often note events of general (as opposed to scientific) history here at WEIT, but today, August 19, 2767 AUC, is the 2000th anniversary of the death of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, better known as Augustus, arguably the most significant individual in Western and, indeed, wo ...
A Crusade in the Nonce?
Pope Francis, ISIS, and the Last Crusade “ The crucifixions, the beheadings and the mass executions of men, the kidnapping of women to be sold as wife-slaves to so-called holy warriors, the destruction of ancient civilizations and cultures, from Assyrian statues to Yazidi villages, and the systemati ...
The Eternal Return Or The Perpetual Wandering In The Transfinite
Another fine summer night of tunage. So happy about the new Aphex Twin album and loving the new Motion Sickness of Time Travel (Ballade For A Sturgeon Moon). http://wzbc.org/ http://zbconline.com/ (archive) Abstract Terrain (NCP) with Patrick Tue Aug 19th 2014 7.00pm–9.00pm 6:47pm / Strider. B. “B2” ...
BRAIN DEATH, THE PERPLEXING PROBLEM FOR ANYONE WHO BELIEVES IN THE SANCTITY OF LIFE
!!!! 9 “The Principle of Caution Must Prevail” April 27, 2011 Pope Benedict XVI enters the debate over brain death and transplantation. J. J. Ziegler http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/431/the_principle_of_caution_must_prevail.aspx#.U_IJ9uLgwVk.email In 1957, Pope Pius XII addressed an audience ...
Pope Figures He'll Live '2 or 3' More Years
Pope Francis thinks he's got only a few years left to live, and that seems OK with him. "Two or three years, and then I'll be off to the Father's house," he told reporters aboard a flight to the Vatican. He was speaking in lighthearted fashion, though AFP reports that...
VERVE & VERSATILITY
Trainer, coach, cat lover, baker and author ANNA TAN shows SHANTINI SUNTHARAJAH that self-improvement isn’t too much of a stretch CATHOLIC SCHOOL, with all its rules and regulations and the nuns who enforce them, might not sound like a great way to spend most of your growing-up years. Anna Tan, howe ...
Pope’s Family Dies In Argentina Car Crash
(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) Two great nephews of Pope Francis, and their mother, have been killed in a traffic accident in Argentina, say police. The accident took place in the early hours of the morning on the Rosario-Córdoba highway in the district of Cordoba, 550km (340 miles) northwest of Buenos A ...
Caesar gold coin expected to sell for £350,000
A unique version of a rare gold coin minted during the reign of Augustus Caesar, the first and greatest of Rome’s emperors, is expected to sell for £300,000 to £350,000 ($508,000 to $593,000) at the auction of Ancient and World Coins to be held by Dix Noonan Webb, the international coins and medals ...
LCWR leaders hope Vatican will resolve issues, honor group's integrity
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) -- Members of the national board of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious said their "deepest hope" is to resolve the issues between them and the Vatican doctrinal congregation in a way that honors LCWR's mission and integrity.
Vatican: Argentina car crash kills papal relatives
Three relatives of Pope Francis died in a car crash Tuesday along a provincial highway in Argentina, the Vatican and local highway police said. Police Superintendent Jorge Raineri said the small car carrying a nephew of the pope along with the man's wife ...
Vatican: crash in Argentina kills pope's great-nephews, wife of nephew
VATICAN CITY – The Vatican says a road accident in Argentina has killed two young great-nephews of Pope Francis as well as their mother, the wife of the pope's nephew. Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said the accident occurred Tuesday ...
VATICAN - Cardinal Filoni thanks the Pope for his prayers
Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - Cardinal Fernando Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, said he was very moved and thanked Pope Francis for his spontaneous prayer for the "suffering people in Iraq" and for his personal Envoy ...
Vatican to get new banker in chief
Pope Francis is about to name a new banker in chief as the Vatican steps up its bid to shed a reputation for shady finances. The Institute for the Works of Religion, as the Vatican bank is formally known, said Tuesday that its profits were virtually wiped ...
Vatican ex-ambassador defrocked for sex abuse
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic has been convicted by a church tribunal of sex abuse and has been defrocked, the first such sentence handed down against a top papal representative. The Vatican said Friday ...
Cleaning Up the Vatican
LONDON — It looked extremely dramatic when Pope Francis fired the entire board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog last week. But that was only the half of it. The seismic changes that are underway behind the scenes in Rome are even more radical than ...
Vatican seeks to rebrand its relationship with science
Now in 2013, as Pope Francis settles into his new role as leader of the Catholic Church, the Vatican's head of science is urging a re-think of the "mischaracterization" of the relationship between the church and science. The Vatican would like the world to ...
The Vatican Bank: The Most Secret Bank In the World
Italian prosecutors have now detained the former head of the Vatican’s bank after searching his home and former office for suspected criminal behavior. Catholics and followers of the Holy See will be disappointed to learn that the Vatican’s bank ...
Vatican stunned by Irish embassy closure
The closure brought relations between Ireland and the Vatican, once ironclad allies, to an all-time low following the row earlier this year over the Irish Church's handling of sex abuse cases and accusations that the Vatican had encouraged secrecy.
