Pope Francis

Pope Francis has presided over the marriage of 20 couples at the Vatican, including some who were cohabiting. BBC News reports that one of the couples married was a man whose previous marriage was annulled and a single mother with a daughter from a previous relationship. He said in his ...

On Sunday 7 September, 2014,TB. Joshua said he had a revelation about Pope Francis�even though he didn’t give �details said the revelation was alarming �I have been praying for him… They should pray for him,” � The clergyman I am talking about is the Pope.” Pope Francis. He also said ...

The Down-to-earth pope wrote this (below) in Argentine weekly “Viva”, Read Below; 1. Live and let live. Everyone should be guided by this principle, he said, which has a similar expression in Rome with the saying, Move forward and let others do the same. 2. Be giving of yourself to ...

Sudanese woman, Meriam Ibrahim, who flew into Italy this morning in company of her husband Daniel Wani and their two children Martin and Maya, met with Pope Francis at Casa Santa Martath inside the Vatican. According to the head of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, the meeting took ...

The bulletproof Popemobile was introduced after the attempted assassination of John Paul II in 1981, and favored by Francis’s predecessor Benedict XVI. Cool Pope, however, does not have time for that. He told La Vanguardia: “I remember in Brazil, they’d provided for me an enclosed Popemobile, but I cannot greet ...

On his last day in the Holy Land, Pope Francis prayed at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, before an emotional hug with two old friends ��a Muslim leader and a rabbi. Francis stood at the Wall for more than a minute and a half, most of the ...

Pope Francis on Friday said he felt responsible for the child sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church, and has issued an unprecedented apology. He made the remarks during a meeting with the International Catholic Child Bureau (Bice), a non�governmental organization. Pope Francis said: �I feel compelled to ...

Pope Francis has indefinitely suspended Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Diocese of Limburg,known as �The Bling Bishop”�after controversies surrounding his lifestyle .This came after the 53 year old Bishop spent a whooping $42m on a luxury residence �& reportedly dropped $15,000 on his bathtub alone. The quarters includes a museum, ...

President Jonathan, his wife Mama Peace and his entourage arrived the Vatican last night and met with the Pope this morning.

  He’s was on the cover of TIME magazine and now Rolling Stone. He’s the first pontiff to grace the cover of Rolling Stone. The pontiff joins other high profile celebrities who have featured on the cover including US President Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, Amy Winehouse, Snoop Dogg and Justin ...

Pope Francis yesterday baptised the child of an unmarried couple during a ceremony in the Sistine Chapel, in Rome. According to DailyMail, the unnamed parents and their child took part in the traditional Baptism Of The Lord mass with 31 others, commemorating the day St John baptised Jesus. The Pope ...

After only nine months as the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis has been named TIME magazine Person of the Year 2013. TIME said the former Argentinian Cardinal has become the ‘new voice of conscience and is the person who had the greatest impact on the world in 2013. ...

New pictures of�Pope Francis embracing and comforting a severely disfigured man have gone viral on the internet. Last�Wednesday, the leader of the world’s 1.3billion Catholics was greeting pilgrims following his weekly public audience when�the man covered in neuronal tumors approached him,�asking for a blessing. The man suffers from a rare ...

Pope Francis has set up an account on Instagram after his success on Twitter. The pontiff has more than 3 million followers on Twitter – and so far he has 5,852 fans on photo sharing site Instagram. Photos posted on the site show the leader of the Catholic Church meeting ...

Pope Francis has already made headlines for choosing a five-year-old Ford Focus as his preferred papal transportation, part of a public emphasis on thrift and poverty. But last weekend, the pontiff expanded his garage with the addition of a 29-year-old sedan with 186,000 miles as his personal car. According to ...

The Pope who is the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion-strong Catholic community, protocol usually dictates that visitors bow to him when they meet him at the Vatican but the Pope has once again shown his willingness to break with tradition by bowing to Muslim royal Queen Rania of Jordan ...

The first 20yrs of my life, I seriously had this dream of being a priest. I was overfed with an overdose of religion which has always been a very serious business in my family. You dare not be late for morning mass or else you get the whipping of your ...

According to Pope Francis, gay people should not be judged or marginalised. While speaking to reporters on�his flight back from Brazil,�his first foreign trip, Pope Francis�said he wouldn’t judge gay priests for their sexual orientation. I have yet to find anyone who has a business card that says he is ...

Pope Francis I has been presented with a modified Mercedes-Benz M Class from Daimler CEO Dr. Dieter Zetsche, which was built specially for the Pontiff and shall be his official car. During their encounter, Zetsche and the Pope also discussed sustainable and safer mobility as well as the Daimler’s charitable ...