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Is The Pope playing ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’? Hit game sells copies in Vatican City
It’s been revealed that Baldur’s Gate 3 has sold copies in Vatican City, with fans wondering if The Pope has been playing the fantasy role-playing game. The Vatican City is the smallest ...
The Straits Times27d
As Vatican summit dodges issue of women clergy, Pope Francis takes criticism
VATICAN CITY – Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of Church leaders drawing to a close this week ...
Religion News Service28d
In letter citing Pope Francis, Vatican doctrine czar ends push for women deacons
(RNS) — The issue of women deacons had been a major theme of the current Vatican synod on how to make the Catholic Church more welcoming and transparent. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The head of the ...
Reuters28d
As Vatican summit dodges issue of women clergy, Pope Francis takes criticism
Vatican summit avoids discussing women clergy Church leaders, lay people from 110 nations taking part Pope Francis criticised over stances on women in society Summit expected to issue final ...
America Magazine7d
Pope Francis appoints papal preacher inspired by the Gospel, St. Francis and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appointed a new preacher of the papal household: a 53-year-old Italian Capuchin priest who studied computer science and mathematics and discovered his vocation ...
The Washington Post26d
Vatican debate over women as deacons hits a big obstacle: Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY — In the final days of the most ... women were for the first time invited to be voting participants. The pope named a French religious sister, Nathalie Becquart, as undersecretary ...
Voice of America23d
Major Vatican meeting sidelines talks of women priests, deacons
“We wanted to share with Pope Francis that it is time to build a bridge between the international women priests’ movement and the Vatican,” she said. “We are on the same page as he is ...
National Catholic Register27d
Vatican-China Bishop Deal Renewed for Four More Years
The terms of the agreement have not been made public, though Pope Francis has said it includes a joint commission between the Chinese government and the Vatican on the appointment of Catholic ...
The New York Times27d
Vatican and China Extend Contentious Agreement on Naming Catholic Bishops
Critics accused the Vatican of giving too much control to China, legitimizing an authoritarian government and abandoning China’s underground church, which suffered for decades. The pope “doesn ...
The Washington Post23d
Vatican meeting ends and hope fades for more change under Francis
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s most highly ... The outcome calmed the fears of church conservatives that Pope Francis’s “Synod on Synodality” would serve as a smokescreen for radical ...
Newsweek3d
Pope Francis Meets With Former Hostages Held by Hamas in Gaza
Pope Francis meets with a delegation of Israeli hostages released in Gaza, during an audience at the Apostolic Palace on November 14, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis meets with a ...
GMA Network23d
China, Vatican extend deal on bishop appointments
One was state-sanctioned, their religious celebrations strictly regulated by the Communist Party, the other operated underground but with the support of the Vatican. The 2018 deal aimed to bring them ...