Pope Francis

2022 - 12 - 13

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In Vatican newspaper, academic urges Pope Francis to get beyond ... (National Catholic Reporter)

Recent popes have used the concept of a "Petrine principle" and a "Marian principle" to describe the important role women and men together play in the ...

The popes, including Francis, have insisted that the Marian principle and feminine role in the church is more important than the ministerial and authoritative role of St. But it is problematic because it stereotypes the differences between men and women and gives them a hierarchical value, she said. The church is woman. Perroni said the Petrine-Marian principle was first formulated by the Swiss theologian Fr. The question must be asked: "Doesn't the Marian-Petrine principle express an ideology and rhetoric of sexual and gender differentiation that has now been exposed as one of the covers for patriarchal privileges?" Peter and the apostles.

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Pope Francis celebrates 53 years as a priest (Catholic News Agency)

On Dec. 13, 1969, just four days before his 33rd birthday, Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio — who today is Pope Francis — was ordained a priest.

In the liturgy of the Church this day is known as Gaudete or Joy Sunday, for many the hallmark of Pope Francis’ pontificate, along with mercy. 13, 53 years ago, was a Saturday, the eve of the Third Sunday of Advent. On Dec.

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Pope Francis celebrates 53 years a priest (Aleteia EN)

As he always asks of us, today we offer a special prayer for him, and in thanksgiving for his priesthood.

21; CCL 122, 149-151), who in his commentary on the Gospel account of the calling of St. It was in the church of St. Pope Francis’s motto is taken from the Homilies of the Venerable St.

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12 Times we smiled along with Pope Francis in 2022 (Aleteia EN)

Jokes, prayers and phone calls : 12 endearing, funny and spontaneous moments that marked Pope Francis' year.

“When I was a kid, I used to say I wanted to be pope when I grew up, but since that made everyone laugh, I became a comedian,” Benigni once joked. The Pontiff went up to Asti to have “Thanks to my vocation, I have always been happy in the places where the Lord has placed and sent me. [100th visit](/2022/11/04/pope-francis-has-made-100-visits-to-our-lady-at-roman-basilica/) to the icon, at which he prays before and after every international trip. The Pontiff said they were “the two brave people of today.” Paolo, [affected](https://www.vaticannews.va/it/papa/news/2022-11/papa-udienza-generale-piccolo-paolo-malattia.html) by a rare neurodegenerative disease, only one of two cases in Italy, had already run up and sat by the Pope during a general audience in 2021. [ran ](/2022/08/17/little-boy-joins-pope-francis-on-stage-as-he-calls-for-closeness-of-elderly-and-youth/)onto the stage of the Paul VI audience hall and then, looking almost starstruck, stood quietly and attentively by Pope Francis, who patted his head. The Pontiff commented on a variety of themes: from what is the Pope’s salary to whether he had had a girlfriend when he was young to his favorite saint (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, by the way!). They ask him how his knee is doing and from the papamobile he replies it is “capricious.” The seminarians thank him for being at the audience despite the pain and say he is an example for future priests like themselves. The Pope responded in the same lively tone, saying he couldn’t believe his bad luck since “after taking all precautions, there was a journalist waiting for a person at the cab stand!” “We must not lose our sense of humor,” he concluded. On January 11 Pope Francis left the Vatican hoping to quickly visit a record store in the center of Rome without being noticed. When Pope Francis went to Malta in early April, he gave a newlywed couple an unexpected blessing. In the context of world conflicts, Pope Francis’ painful knee, and polarizations within the Church, it can come naturally to focus on the negative situations that have affected the Pontiff and the Church’s year.

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The German Crisis, the World Church, and Pope Francis (Catholic World Report)

German Catholicism is often said to be in a de facto schism. That is an inadequate description of the German crisis. The German Catholicism manifest in the ...

The German Catholicism manifest in the documents of the Synodal Path is in apostasy. If such a resolution is not achieved, however, it will raise the gravest doubts about the entire project of “synodality” central to his pontificate. But if the “signs of the times” (for example, gender ideology) contradict what God has revealed about our nature and destiny, the “signs of the times” are awry, not the word of God. The German “Synodal Path” is not a development of the Council. But revelation judges every historical moment; revelation is not judged by the “signs of the times.” It is a rejection of the Council.

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