Pope urges dialogue with nonbelievers in letter to high profile atheist
Writing in one of Italy’s major secular newspapers, Pope Francis called for a “sincere and rigorous dialogue” between the church and nonbelievers as an “intimate and indispensable expression” of...
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Pope Francis has given a 4,500-word interview to the atheist co-founder of La Repubblica in which he describes the Vatican’s courtly atmosphere as “the leprosy of the papacy” (full text). The Council...
View ArticleWhy is the Pope giving an interview to Italy’s most anti-clerical paper?
The Pope has given an interview, another one, to Eugenio Scalfari. The English translation of the interview, which appeared in La Repubblica, can be read here. There are reams of comment all over the...
View ArticlePope Francis comes over as better informed than Italy’s leading intellectual
The following brief exchange in the Pope’s conversation with Eugenio Scalfari has generated some interest and indeed some perplexity. It is as follows: Your Holiness, is there is a single vision of...
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The Bishops of England and Wales have asked the faithful to complete an online survey ahead of the Vatican Synod of Bishops on the family (analysis by Rocco Palmo, comment by Fr James Martin SJ and...
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Five things Pope Francis definitely didn’t do in his first year
1) The new Pope takes the name Francis I The media’s coverage of the new Pope got off to a rocky start when journalists across the world reported that the world had a new Pope who went by the name of...
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The Pope called for heartfelt prayers for peace in the Holy Land at yesterday’s Angelus (full video). Francis has discussed clerical abuse, the mafia and parental responsibility in a new conversation...
View ArticleFr Lombardi: words in Scalfari interview ‘cannot be attributed to the pope’
The Vatican has said that a recent interview with pope Francis in which he talks about sex abuse should not be considered a record of his exact works. In the article, published yesterday in the Rome...
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The Church of England’s decision to ordain women bishops is “a further obstacle on the path” to unity, English Catholic Archbishop Bernard Longley has said. The massive influx of unaccompanied Central...
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The Vatican is revising canon law on penalties for abuse. Fifty-two priests have been laicised in England and Wales since 2001, according to the National Catholic Safeguarding Commission. Caritas...
View ArticleAtheist interviewer asked Pope Francis to bless his family
The 90-year-old Italian atheist who twice interviewed Pope Francis has revealed that he asked the Pope to bless his family. Eugenio Scalfari, one of Italy’s most prominent atheist intellectuals and for...
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Pope Francis has discussed Donald Trump, immigrants and the poor in a new interview with La Repubblica’s Eugenio Scalfari (Italian text). More than 20 million pilgrims have visited Rome during the Year...
View Article‘I don’t judge politicians’: Pope Francis skirts Trump question
Pope Francis has declined to offer any comment about Donald Trump in a new interview, but said he was concerned about how political policies may affect the lives of the poor. The interview with Eugenio...
View ArticleDon’t trust the claims that Pope Francis doesn’t believe in hell
Italy’s daily La Repubblica newspaper ran another “colloquy” this morning, between the paper’s 93-year-old atheist founder, Eugenio Scalfari, and the 81-year-old Bishop of Rome, Francis. To hear...
View ArticleVatican distances itself from claim that Pope doesn’t believe in hell
The Pope says Hell doesn’t exist – this was the shock news in an Italian newspaper on Thursday. Eugenio Scalfari, co-founder and first editor of Repubblica, published his latest conversation with Pope...
View ArticleWhy on earth does Pope Francis still trust Eugenio Scalfari?
To call this latest one a head-scratcher is to put oneself in the running for understatement of the year. The facts are that Eugenio Scalfari, the 93-year-old atheist founder of Italy’s centre-left...
View ArticleCardinal Burke: Scalfari interview on hell was ‘profound scandal’
The fallout from the Pope’s interview with Eugenio Scalfari, in which he apparently cast doubt on the existence of hell, is “beyond tolerable”, Cardinal Raymond Burke has said. Scalfari, the co-founder...
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