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Vatican City: Openly gay men can now become priests, Vatican signals
Vatican City, Vatican City - September 26, 2024 New guidelines released by the Italian Bishops’ Conference on Friday brings the ordination of openly gay men to the Catholic priesthood closer. The ...
Pope Francis baptizes 21 babies in annual ceremony at the Sistine Chapel
Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has ...
Pope prays for victims and rescuers in California wildfires
Pope Francis is praying for victims and rescuers trying to control the wildfires in California that have killed at least 11 ...
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, tapping an Italian nun
Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...
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St. Peter’s Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks
This is a very significant beginning,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief Vatican organizer of the Jubilee Year, said in a ...
Vatican approves Italian guidelines allowing gay men to become priests
The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church ...
Stunning European city can be explored in 2 days without using annual leave
It's a swift two and a half hours to Italian shores, followed by a mere 30-minute airport train ride that drops you right in ...
Commentators react as Italian nun named first woman prefect at head of major Vatican office
Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, tapping Sister Simona Brambilla to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the world’s religious orders.
Pope Names Nun to Head a Vatican Department, a First for a Woman
Sister Simona Brambilla was appointed as the prefect of a Vatican office that oversees religious orders, but she may not be ...
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Pope Francis appoints Sister Simona Brambilla as first woman to lead a Vatican dicastery
Sister Simona Brambilla has been named prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic ...
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Vatican to host historic Jordan exhibition on Christianity’s origins
The Jordanian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week the opening of a historical exhibit in Vatican City titled “Jordan: Dawn of Christianity.” This pioneering event aims to explore ...