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[61] [62] Following the election of Pope Francis in 2013, UNAIDS wrote that the Church "provides support to millions of people living with HIV around the world" and that "Statistics from the Vatican in 2012 indicated that Catholic Church-related organizations provide approximately a quarter of all HIV treatment, care, and support throughout the ...
The document is generally referred to, not by its English-language title, "Declaration on Christian Education", but by the opening words of its original Latin text, which mean "extremely important education". [1] The document quotes at length from Divini illius Magistri (That divine teacher, 1929) by Pope Pius XI. [2]
The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers held a two-day conference in 2000 that coincided with World AIDS Day. [107] [108] Dozens of AIDS experts attended. [107] It had been thought that the conference may open the door to condom use [108] but the church reaffirmed its position that condoms were morally impermissible.
Pope Francis waves from a window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's Square in the Vatican during the weekly Angelus prayer followed by the recitation of the Regina Coeli on May 09, 2021.
Laudato si ' (Praise Be to You) is the second encyclical of Pope Francis, subtitled "on care for our common home". [1] In it, the Pope criticizes consumerism and irresponsible economic development, laments environmental degradation and global warming, and calls all people of the world to take "swift and unified global action". [2]
Francis has a personal physician, Dr. Roberto Bernabei, who is an internist and geriatric specialist at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. In 2022, Francis named Strappetti his ...
Pope Francis cancelled his appointments on Monday because of what the Vatican described as light flu symptoms. Below are details of some of the health problems the 87-year-old pontiff has faced.
[190] President Raúl Castro, a product of Jesuit education, said the teachings of Pope Francis had both persuaded him to take a softer line on religion and to perhaps return to the Catholic Church. He said: "If the Pope continues to speak like this, sooner or later I will start praying again and I will return to the Catholic Church – and I'm ...