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President Joe Biden said Thursday that Pope Francis told him to keep receiving communion — even though he publicly supports killing unborn children through abortion. “We just talked about the fact that he was happy that I was a good Catholic and … keep receiving communion,” Biden told reporters after his private meeting with the pope at the Vatican. He said they did not discuss the issue of abortion.

President Biden on Friday had a lengthy and warm meeting with Pope Francis, which included jokes, laughter, and a gift exchange. “The engagement between the two was very warm when the delegation arrived in the room. There was laughter and clear rapport between President Biden and Pope Francis,” a White House official said. During the 90-minute meeting, Biden gave the pope a presidential challenge coin and called him the “most significant warrior for peace I've ever met,” NBC reported citing Vatican TV.

President Joe Biden, who will meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 29, is Catholic. The country’s first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, visited the Vatican, too. But meetings between U.S. presidents and popes have been a staple of politics since the Kennedy era, whether the president was Catholic or not. Woodrow Wilson was the first sitting president to meet a pope, visiting Pope Benedict XV amid peace negotiations after World War I. Dwight Eisenhower met John XXIII as part of an international goodwill tour. Lyndon Johnson first met with Paul VI when the pontiff came to New York...

There’s still many unsolved mysteries surrounding the 2013 election of Cdl. Bergoglio The narrative that Cardinal Bergoglio was a passive, or even an unwitting, beneficiary of the St. Gallen mafia’s initiatives on his behalf is impossible to accept.Tue Oct 26, 2021 - 12:35 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — His biggest supporters push the narrative of a humble cardinal and Church “surprised” by the election of Pope Francis. However, this narrative runs counter to the reality described in Henry Sire’s book The Dictator Pope of a Cardinal Bergoglio who “plotted like mad” after Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation. Even accounts friendly...

Emma Bonino not only is responsible for millions of abortions but she supports same-sex 'marriage,' transgenderism, and sex education. Bonino, a former abortionist once praised by Pope Francis as “a great Italian,” will appear in a Catholic church to present the pro-migrant campaign “ERO STRANIERO: La humanità che fa bene” (“I was a stranger: Humanity that does good”) As an abortion rights activist and an abortionist herself, Bonino is directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of approximately six million Italian babies between 1968 and today. Bonino’s appearance in the Church of San Defendente, Ronco di Cassato, on July 26...

Pope Francis had high praise for German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday, predicting that she will “go down in history as one of the great leaders.” The pope said the Merkel administration constitutes “an interesting milestone in world politics and a call to women who feel a political vocation.” Asked about Merkel, who will soon step down as chancellor of Germany after 16 years, the pontiff praised her for her realistic approach to government, asserting she “is not a fanciful woman” because her ideals “become reality.” At the beginning of October, the pope and Merkel held their final meeting for 45...

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden will have an audience with Pope Francis on Oct. 29, the White House announced on Thursday. “They will discuss working together on efforts grounded in respect for fundamental human dignity, including ending the COVID-19 pandemic, tackling the climate crisis, and caring for the poor,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. The president will then attend the Group of 20 (G20) Leaders’ Summit on Oct. 30 and 31 in Rome, Italy. Psaki said more information about individual bilateral meetings on margins of the summit will be forthcoming.

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Pope Francis has met with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic who has come under criticism from some bishops in the United States for her support for abortion rights. Their meeting took place in Vatican City on Saturday, several weeks before Joe Biden is expected to meet the Pope when the the president is in Rome for talks between leaders of the Group of 20 major economies. The Vatican announced Pelosi's audience with the Pope in its daily bulletin but gave no details. Biden, the second Catholic U.S. president, has said he is personally opposed to abortion but, as...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Saturday called on lawmakers worldwide to overcome “the narrow confines” of partisan politics to quickly reach consensus on fighting climate change. “To meet this challenge, everyone has a role to play,″ Francis told the visiting lawmakers from many countries. ”That of political and government leaders is especially important, and indeed crucial.” Before his speech, Francis gave a private audience to Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. “His Holiness’s leadership is a source of joy and hope for Catholics and for all people, challenging each of us to be good stewards of...

Audiences, 09.10.2021 This morning, the Holy Father Francis received in audience: - The Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, with her husband and entourage; https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2021/10/09/211009b.html

Three Swiss Guards have resigned and three others have been suspended after refusing to comply with a Vatican mandate that they get the COVID-19 vaccination. The Swiss Guards, colloquially known as the Pope’s bodyguards, had previously been ordered “to protect their health and that of the others they come into contact with as part of their service” by getting the jab. The mandate was part of a broader instruction to all Vatican employees to get the COVID shot or face losing their jobs. “Besides the three guardsmen sent back to Switzerland, at least three others were suspended from active duty...

The Vatican will require all visitors and personnel to show a COVID-19 pass proving they have been vaccinated, have recovered from the coronavirus, or have tested negative for the disease in order to enter the city state beginning Oct. 1. To enter Vatican territory, tourists and other visitors, employees, and officials will be required to show a digital or paper Covid Certificate issued by the Vatican or another country, according to an ordinance published Sept. 20. The president of Vatican City State, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, issued the ordinance at the request of Pope Francis, who asked “to take all appropriate...

ROME — The Vatican City State announced Monday that effective October 1 no one can enter its territory without presenting a coronavirus Green Pass, by order of Pope Francis. The Green Pass can be obtained by showing proof of vaccination against the coronavirus, demonstrating recovery from the coronavirus, or by showing a negative rapid antigen or PCR test, the Vatican ordinance states.

Pope Francis urged Hungarians to be more “open” and “considered” during an open-air mass in Budapest after meeting the country’s hardline Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday. Orban’s personal gift to the Pope, however, appeared to underline his nationalist and anti-immigrant stance: a copy of a 13th century letter from Hungarian King Bela IV to Pope Innocent IV. The letter asked the then-Pope for help in resisting the Mongol invasion of Hungary and Europe. Balazs Orban, Deputy Minister for the Prime Minister’s Office, described the gift on his Facebook page, saying, “there are many similarities between the situation at that...

Pope's original visit, scheduled for May 2020, was cancelled due to COVID-19Pope Francis announced on Wednesday that he plans to visit Malta in an interview on a Spanish radio station. "Slovakia is (already) on the programme, then Cyprus, Greece and Malta," he told Cope radio, reiterating his desire to visit small European countries since he took office in 2013. The Pope was meant to visit Malta in May of 2020, but the trip was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Sources have suggested November 20 and 21 as potential dates for the trip, but the dates remain unconfirmed. However, others...

When each individual makes a small act of charity, like getting the COVID-19 vaccine, every gesture added together can transform the world, Pope Francis said in a global ad campaign. "Being vaccinated with vaccines authorized by the competent authorities is an act of love. And contributing to ensure the majority of people are vaccinated is an act of love -- love for oneself, love for one's family and friends, love for all people," he said in a public service announcement released Aug. 18 in Rome. The video message was part of a global effort by the U.S.-based nonpartisan, nonprofit Ad...

Getting vaccinated against #COVID19 is an "act of love," says Pope Francis in a public service ad by the Vatican. https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1427936311911100420

Pope Francis appointed Dr Jennifer Doudna to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Wednesday. The Holy Father has appointed the distinguished Professor Jennifer Anne Doudna as ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Professor Jennifer Doudna was born on 19 February 1964 in Washington, D.C. (USA). She studied biochemistry at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and earned her doctorate in Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School in Cambridge. Later, she continued her studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder.She is currently Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Molecular and...

ROME — The former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has issued a scathing indictment of Pope Francis, calling him “the head of the most extremist faction of progressivism.” In an hour-long video message posted to YouTube earlier this week, Archbishop Viganò attacks the pope’s July 16 letter restricting the use of the Traditional Latin Mass, which Viganò calls the “highest and most sacred expression of prayer.” Francis’s “dual role as pope and liquidator of the Catholic Church allows him on the one hand to demolish it with decrees and acts of governance, and on the...