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Pope Francis meets with Vatican leaders at hospital
Pope Francis met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra at the Gemelli hospital in Rome where he has been since Feb. 14.
Gemelli Hospital, Rome: Updates on Pope Francis’ condition
As prayers continue for the health of Pope Francis as he battles double pneumonia and now « mild kidney failure, » Cardinal Timothy Dolan was candid about his assessment of the pontiff. “As our Holy Father Pope Francis is in very, very fragile health, and probably close to death,” he says. NBC’s Ann Thompson reports for TODAY from the Vatican and NBC News medical contributor Dr. Natalie Azar joins with analysis.
Cardinal Dolan says Pope Francis is ‘probably close to death’
Takeaways from meeting with Pope Francis and G7 leaders on AI
Friday marked the second day of the G7 summit in Southern Italy. The leaders of the world’s major democracies and their allies discussed migration, economic security and tensions with China, and participated in a working session on artificial intelligence with Pope Francis.
Discours du Pape François au Sommet du G7 – Italie
Ce vendredi 14 juin 2024, le pape François se rend à Borgo Egnazia, dans la région italienne des Pouilles, pour participer au sommet du G7, qui réunit sept grandes puissances économiques mondiales. Le Pape prononcera un discours lors de la session consacrée à l’intelligence artificielle, ouverte aux pays non-membres. C’est la première fois qu’un pape intervient au sommet du G7.
The ‘false prophet’ vs the pope: Argentina faces clash of ideologies in election
Javier Milei, a culture war populist and sex coach who won country’s open primary, rages at ‘communist’ pontiff as he sets his sights on becoming president
In one corner of the ring stands Javier Milei, 52, self-described former tantric sex coach, outsider anarcho-capitalist and frontrunner in Argentina’s upcoming presidential elections; in the other, his compatriot Pope Francis, 86, world champion of the poor, repeatedly derided by Argentina’s likely next president as “a fucking communist” and “the representative of the evil one on Earth” for promoting the doctrine of “social justice” to aid the underprivileged.
Milei, a political unknown until 2020, has pledged to wage a “cultural battle” to transform Argentina into a libertarian paradise where capitalist efficiency replaces social assistance, taxes are reduced to a minimum and cash-strapped individuals are allowed to sell their body organs on the open market.
From Rome, Pope Francis has expressed grave concern about the rise of such callous policies in his home country. “The extreme right always reconstructs itself, it is the triumph of selfishness over communitarianism,” he said in a television interview in March when asked about Argentina’s upcoming elections.
In words that seemed to be referring to Milei, the only candidate in the 22 October vote with no political experience prior to 2021, the pope added: “I am terrified of saviours of the nation without a political party history.”
The pope’s doctrine of social justice is synonymous to theft in Milei’s Liberty Advances party because it relies on tax revenues. “Jesus didn’t pay taxes,” Milei once tweeted, tagging the Pope’s official account.
In a vein-popping victory speech after Argentina’s open primaries on 13 August, a tousle-haired Milei promised the demise of government benefits because they are “based on that atrocity that says that where there is a need, a right is born, its maximum expression being that aberration called social justice”.
Milei has trolled Francis with repetitive toxic tweets calling him a “communist turd”, a “piece of shit” and accusing the pontiff of “preaching communism to the world”.
Juan Grabois, a progressive Peronist with close links to the pontiff, and who lost the Peronist candidacy to current economy minister Sergio Massa, calls Milei a “false prophet” but attributes his rise to Argentina’s dire economic crisis.
“With inflation over 115% plus a 25% drop in the purchasing power of informal workers in the last seven years, voters would have to possess impossible political maturity to vote again for those who have failed them so completely,” Grabois told the Observer. Lire la suite »
Why Pope Francis is visiting South Sudan
On April 11, 2019, Pope Francis shocked the world by kissing the feet of the government leaders of South Sudan, who for years have been at war among themselves. Nearly four years later, the pope will make an in-person visit to the country, from February 3–5, with that same hope for peace.
In this video, we take a look at the history of South Sudan, why the Pope has chosen to travel to the country alongside leaders of other Christian denominations, and what to expect from the visit. For complete coverage of the papal trip to South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, visit https://americamagazine.org.
Pope Francis urges UN reform after Ukraine war, Covid ‘limits
Pope Francis has criticised international leaders, saying they have failed to address war and inequality, in an extract of his new book published Sunday.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church called for major reforms at the United Nations – saying it must find new ways to resolve conflict, as the war in Ukraine goes on. In his new book, the Pope also says the Coronavirus pandemic has exposed global inequality, with wealthy nations getting priority for vaccines. He also says leaders must ‘rediscover their purpose’ of serving humanity.
Pope Francis speaks for the old
Pope Francis, 85, has long spotlighted older people and regularly denounces how they are treated like garbage in a “throwaway culture.”
On a trip to Canada this week, as he relied on aides to get in and out of wheelchairs, Francis used his own visible frailty to again demand dignity and respect for other older people.
In Alberta, Francis said that there needed to be “a future in which the elderly are not cast aside because, from a ‘practical’ standpoint, they are no longer useful.”
Analysis: The world is aging rapidly. A U.N. report predicted that by 2050, people age 60 and over will exceed people under 15. “Never as many as now, never as much risk of being discarded,” Francis said.
Context: Francis — who has had numerous health issues — is not the first pope to make the dignity of the old a central concern of his later papacy. His immediate predecessors ailed in public or resigned citing advanced age.
(source: nytimes.com)
Pope Refuses Meeting With Pompeo
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Pope Francis declined to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his trip to Rome on Wednesday so as to avoid being used as a tool for President Trump’s reelection, according to Vatican officials, a decision that comes as Republicans attempt to baselessly accuse Democrats of resisting Trump’s Supreme Court nominee over anti-Catholic bias.
Asked by Italian news publication ANSA if the meeting was denied out of worries it would amount to “exploitation” prior to the November presidential election, Bishop Paul Richard Gallagher said, « Yes, that is precisely why the Pope will not meet American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. »
Pompeo visited Rome on Wednesday to push back against the renewal of a 2018 deal between China and the Vatican, with some Catholic leaders like Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga saying, « They’re looking for Donald Trump to get elected, and everything is based on that logic. »
(source: forbes.com)
I Ask Forgiveness,’ Pope Francis Tells Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh — On the eve of his return to Rome, Pope Francis on Friday used the word “Rohingya,” coming face-to-face with some of the persecuted Muslims whose plight had cast a long shadow over his visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh.
Critics had been asking why a pontiff who so often condemned injustice against the downtrodden had stayed silent earlier in the week, when he made his first visit to Myanmar, a country in which Rohingya Muslims have been raped, killed or driven into exile in Bangladesh by a brutal military campaign of repression.
In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, on Friday, the pope listened to the stories, and held the hands, one by one, of 16 survivors of the persecution — 12 men, two women and two young girls — vowing: “We won’t close our hearts or look away. The presence of God today is also called Rohingya.”
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