Both Pope Francis and ex-Pope Benedict have received the first dose of a vaccine against coronavirus, the Vatican said on Thursday. The 84-year-old pope and the 93-year-old ex-pope Benedict got their jabs as part of a Vatican vaccination program that began on Wednesday. Both men are vulnerable to contracting the…
Pope Francis’ personal doctor, Fabrizio Soccorsi, has died as a result of “complications due to Covid,” the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano announced on Saturday. Pope Francis’s personal Doctor Soccorsi was appointed in 2015, the news outlet said. He was 78 years old when he died. Soccorsi was hospitalized in Rome…
Pope Francis has on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, who will be holding a higher rank, further expanding the pontiff’s impact on the group that will one day elect his successor. The consistory saw Rwanda getting her first cardinal, in the name of Archbishop Antoine Kambanda, a 62-year-old from Archbishop…
Pope Francis, on Wednesday, refused to endorse a proposal to allow married priests in the Amazon region, in what would have been a special exception to the celibacy rule for clergy. In an October summit known as a synod, Amazon bishops called for admitting married men into the priesthood, only…