The Pope has called for same-sex couples to be protected by civil union laws, in a remarkable departure from both the Vatican’s historic stance on homosexuality and his own. “Homosexual people have a right to be in a family,” the head of the Catholic Church says in new documentary ‘Francesco’, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday. They are children of God and have a right... 

Pope Francis told a group of parents of L.G.B.T. children yesterday that “God loves your children as they are” and “the church loves your children as they are because they are children of God.” He did so in a brief encounter with some 40 Italian parents (both mothers and fathers) of L.G.B.T. children after the public audience in the Renaissance courtyard of San Damaso in the Vatican. The parents... 

Pope Francis has added his voice to those objecting to the museum status of Istanbul’s famous Hagia Sophia having been revoked. Originally a Byzantine Christian church, the Turkish government has turned it back into a mosque. “My thoughts go to Istanbul. I’m thinking about Hagia Sophia. I am very distressed,” the pontiff said, in the Vatican’s first reaction to the decision taken by the... 

The antichrist, the son of perdition, Pope Satan has just declared among his other hundreds of previous satanic declarations that racism is a sin and white people are racist devils. Satan is basically saying that the cop who killed George Floyd using his standard ISRAELI training tactics, did it because of race. It doesn’t matter to Satan that there were 3 cops kneeling on Floyd at the same... 

Traditionalist former pope Benedict XVI accuses opponents of wanting to “silence” him while associating gay marriage with “the Antichrist” and attacking “humanist ideologies” in a new authorised biography published Monday in Germany. The 93-year-old, whose original name is Joseph Ratzinger, claims in “Benedict XVI – A Life” that he has fallen victim to a “malignant distortion of... 

During a live broadcast from the library of the Apostolic Palace yesterday, the Pope said he did not want “this sorrow, this epidemic, to make us forget the poor Syrians who are suffering on the border of Greece and Turkey”. Thousands of men, women and children have crowded the Turkish side of the Greek border after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the border to refugees and migrants... 

The head of the Italian League party, Matteo Salvini, has playfully mocked the Pope’s viral New Year’s handshake faux pas with a tongue-in-cheek recreation, spreading mirth online to wrap up the festive season. Pope Francis would clearly have rathered a different end to 2019 but was instead embroiled in a controversy, albeit minor, on December 31, when he appeared to slap away a rather overly... 

Pope Francis, in a Saturday message delivered from the Vatican, took aim at conservative Catholics, warning that “rigidity” in living out the Christian faith was turning people away, and that the church must adapt to a post-Christian west. Francis called for Vatican bureaucrats to embrace change during his annual Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who work in the Holy See. Catholicism’s... 

Pope Francis described violence against women as “a blasphemy against God.” A day earlier, the frustrated pontiff slapped the hand of a woman who yanked him towards her. Pope Francis issued a rare public apology on Wednesday for slapping the hand of a pilgrim who grabbed his hand and yanked him towards her. The apology came as the pontiff used his New Year’s Day homily to condemn... 

Footage shows Pope Francis slapping a woman’s hand in response to her grabbing his hand and yanking him toward her. Making an appearance at the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square on Tuesday, 83-year-old Pope Francis was greeted by thousands of tourists and Romans. When the woman tugged at the Pope, he struck her hand twice in an attempt to free his own hand and scowled as he walked away. It’s... 

Pope Francis shocked many when he delivered his 2019 Christmas address to the cardinals, bishops and other high ranking officials of the Catholic Church, by explicitly rejecting tradition, Western culture and even comparing Jesus in Bethlehem to a refugee: “Christendom no longer exists!” Francis declared in his speech. “Today we are no longer the only ones who create culture, nor are we in the... 

Well that’s not technically what he said but then again that’s basically what he means, check this out. Pope Francis made migrants the centerpiece of his Christmas blessing Wednesday, addressing the topic of immigration a remarkable three times in an 865-word message. “May the newborn Lord bring light to the people of Africa, where persistent social and political situations often force... 

Pope Francis is considering introducing ‘ecological sins’ in a new bid to battle climate change. Speaking in Rome on Friday, Pope Francis said it’s ‘a duty’ to introduce the new sin to the Catholic Church’s teachings as a way to protect ‘our common home’. This comes after the Pope held a three-week bishops’ assembly, called a synod, last month... 

An international group of Catholic priests and scholars have called on Pope Francis to issue a public apology for holding a ritual on Vatican grounds which included the worship of a pagan fertility goddess. The petition, signed by 100 clergy, scholars and influential members of the Church, demanded that the pontiff “repent publicly and unambiguously” for participating in the worship of Pachamama,... 

Angered at Pope Francis’ apparent worship of false gods and idols, a crack team of angry true Catholics have slipped into a Roman church and made off with a collection of pagan Amazonian statues, before dumping them in the River Tiber. In a video apparently filmed in the early hours of the morning and posted by Catholic news site LifeSite News, a pair of worshippers rise from the pews of Rome’s...