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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose excerpts were published by Italy ...
Francis was mandated by electing cardinals to sort out Vatican finances following scandals during the papacies of Pope Benedict and Pope John Paul II. He stated he is determined to end corruption in the Catholic Church but is not very optimistic due to it being a human problem dating back centuries.
Pope Francis can choose to accept it whenever he has selected a replacement. Some bishops continue serving for years after their 75th birthday. The deadline is when they turn 80.
On January 10, 2022, Pope Francis issued a statement on COVID-19 vaccines. He stated that COVID-19 vaccination was a "moral obligation" and denounced "how people had been swayed by 'baseless information' to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives". [20] [21] [22]
Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday Dec. 18, 2022 that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from ...
Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict meeting on 5 July 2013. Benevacantism (a portmanteau of "Benedict" and "sedevacantism" [1] [a]) is the belief that Pope Benedict XVI did not validly resign the papacy and as such remained in the office, making Pope Francis an invalidly elected antipope. Believers of this theory are called "Benevacantists ...
VATICAN CITY, Feb 18 - Pope Francis, who is spending his fifth day in hospital for what doctors described as a "complex" respiratory infection, will not take part in this weekend's Holy Year ...
The Vatican COVID-19 Commission has elaborated various materials, reflections and messages, for instance the Catechesis offered by Pope Francis during his General Audiences [6] in August and September 2020, gathered in the book To Heal the World, [7] [8] Catechesis on the pandemic, the book Life after the pandemic [9] [10] and the e-book based ...