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30.03.2023 / 16:27

Vatican formally renounces Discovery Doctrine after decades of Indigenous demands

The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Indigenous lands and form the basis of some property law today.

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‘Work to be done’: 1 year after residential schools apology, Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery

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What the puffer-clad Pope Francis photos tell us about the future of AI images

A wave of social media users are coming to the sad realization that the Pope isn’t as stylish as recent photos seem to suggest. Were you duped too? (Most of us were.)

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Indigenous leader says Pope Francis visit leaves room for reconciliation and change

Indigenous leaders are reflecting on the historic visit of Pope Francis to Alberta — and its shortcomings.

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Watch Pope Francis’ open-air mass in Edmonton

Pope Francis has arrived at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium, where he is to give a public mass to an estimated 70,000 people.

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‘My mom’s dream’: An intergenerational survivor on why she and her daughter needed to see the Pope

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Pope Francis ‘deeply sorry,’ asks for forgiveness for residential schools during Alberta visit

Pope Francis says he is sorry for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in cultural destruction and forced assimilation of Indigenous people, which culminated in residential schools.

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Maskwacis to ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters during Pope visit: ‘Your agendas do not have a place’

Stay away, you are not welcome.

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Pope Francis apologizes for residential schools at Vatican: ‘I ask for God’s forgiveness’

Pope Francis has delivered a formal apology for the grave harm caused by Canada’s harrowing residential school system.

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Pope orders pay cuts for cardinals, other clerics, citing COVID-19 pandemic

Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other clerics, including priests and nuns, who work at the Holy See.In a decree being published on Wednesday by the Vatican’s official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Francis said that starting in April cardinals’ salaries will be reduced 10 per cent. Superiors of the Holy See’s various departments will be hit by 8 per cent cuts while lower-ranking priests and nuns will see 3 per cent vanish from their paycheques.In the decree he signed on Tuesday, the pope noted that the Holy See’s finances have been marked by several years of deficit.

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Pope Francis criticizes people travelling to escape coronavirus lockdowns

Pope Francis condemned on Sunday people who had gone abroad on holiday to escape coronavirus lockdowns, saying they needed to show greater awareness of the suffering of others.Speaking after his weekly noon blessing, Francis said he had read newspaper reports of people catching flights to flee government curbs and seek fun elsewhere. Christmas a sign of hope amid coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis says “They didn’t think about those who were staying at home, of the economic problems of many people who have been hit hard by the lockdown, of the sick people.

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Pope adapts Christmas plans as cardinals test positive for virus

Pope Francis will deliver his Christmas Day message indoors due to coronavirus restrictions, the Vatican has said, as two cardinals close to the pontiff tested positive for Covid-19.

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Christmas a sign of hope amid coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis says

Pope Francis says the Christmas season provides reason for hope amid the difficulties of the coronavirus pandemic.During his Sunday blessing, Francis noted that the Vatican’s Christmas tree had gone up last week in St. Peter’s Square, and that work is underway to build the life-size Nativity scene next to it.

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Pope leads mass with new cardinals, urges people to find good even amid coronavirus

Pope Francis is encouraging people to try to take away something good “even from the difficult situation that the pandemic forces on us.” Pope Francis elevates 13 new cardinals amid coronavirus pandemic Addressing faithful gathered a safe distance apart in vast St.

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Pope Francis set to elevate 13 new cardinals amid coronavirus pandemic

Pope Francis is preparing to formally elevate 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to receive the rank, in a ceremony marked in every way by the coronavirus pandemic: Two of the cardinals stayed home, the rest eschewed the usual celebrations and St. Peter’s Basilica was practically empty for Saturday’s service.The ceremony, known as a consistory, is the seventh of Francis’ pontificate and once again reflected the Argentine pope’s effort to name cardinals from places that have never had them before or whose service to the church he wants to highlight.

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Pope urges people to divest from companies not committed to the environment

Pope Francis on Saturday urged people to pull investments from companies that are not committed to protecting the environment, adding his voice to calls for the economic model that emerges from the coronavirus pandemic to be a sustainable one.Francis spoke in a video message for an online event called “Countdown Global Launch, A Call to Action on Climate Change.”“Science tells us, every day with more precision, that we need to act urgently … if we are to have any hope of avoiding radical and catastrophic climate change,” he said.

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Market capitalism has failed in the coronavirus pandemic, needs reform: Pope Francis

Pope Francis says the coronavirus pandemic has proven that the “magic theories” of market capitalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that promotes dialogue and solidarity and rejects war at all costs.Francis on Sunday laid out his vision for a post-COVID world by uniting the core elements of his social teachings into a new encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti” (Brothers All), which was released on the feast day of his namesake, the peace-loving St. Francis of Assisi.The document draws its inspiration from the teachings of St.

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Coronavirus: Pope Francis to travel outside Rome for 1st time since February

Pope Francis will next month visit the Italian town of Assisi, his first trip out of Rome since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in February, and will sign a new encyclical, a spokesman for the Assisi Basilica said on Saturday.The encyclical, which is the highest form of papal writing, is expected to focus on what Francis believes the post-pandemic world should look like, and will be called “Brothers All….” Coronavirus: Here’s what happens when a pandemic locks down a globe-trotting pope Father Enzo Fortunato said in a statement that the pope would travel to Assisi on Oct. 3, the day before the Feast of St.

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Coronavirus: Here’s what happens when a pandemic locks down a globe-trotting pope

coronavirus fatalities, Pope Francis emerged from lockdown to offer an extraordinary prayer and plea to his flock to reassess their priorities, arguing the virus had proved they needed one another.Francis’ words from the rain-slicked promenade of St.

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Coronavirus deaths top 400,000 worldwide

COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities on Sunday, a day after the government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South American country.Worldwide, at least 6.9 million people have been infected by the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University, whose aggregated tally has become the main worldwide reference for monitoring the disease. Its running counter says United States leads the world with nearly 110,000 confirmed virus-related deaths.

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The public returned to St Peter's Square in the Vatican today to receive Pope Francis's blessing

The public returned to St Peter's Square in the Vatican today to receive Pope Francis's blessing from his window for the first time in nearly three months as he convoked a year of reflection on the environment.

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Pope Francis dreams of post coronavirus world without inequalities

Pope Francis is urging the faithful to use the coronavirus pandemic’s “time of trial” to prepare for a future where inequalities are abolished and the poorest are no longer left behind.

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Spain cautiously emerges from 'economic hibernation'

Spain is beginning to lift restrictions on some businesses after shutting down all non-essential operations nearly two weeks ago in a bid to stem the spread of Covid-19.

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Pope Francis celebrates Easter amid coronavirus pandemic

Pope Francis and Christians around the world marked a solitary Easter Sunday, forced to celebrate the most joyful day in the liturgical calendar amid the sorrowful reminders of the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Pope to livestream Easter mass to locked down world

Pope Francis will break with centuries of tradition and livestream Easter Sunday mass to allow the world's 1.3 billion Catholics celebrate their holiest holiday under a coronavirus lockdown.

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Coronavirus: Pope Francis spreads ‘message of hope’ ahead of Easter

Pope Francis urged people to “not yield to fear” and focused on a “message of hope” as he led an Easter eve Mass in an empty St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday amid the coronavirus pandemic and called for an end to wars.

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Coronavirus: Pope Francis holds Good Friday service in empty St. Peter’s Square

Pope Francis presided at a “Way of the Cross” service held in an empty St. Peter’s Square on Friday because of the coronavirus outbreak and listened as both prisoners and their victims recounted their sorrows.

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Chris Evans: Virgin Radio host left stunned over co-host's visit to see the Pope

Chris Evans, 53, learnt something new about his co-star Rachel Horne on Thursday morning's show, as she revealed she and her husband met the Pope during a special wedding service after they got married.

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Pope Francis celebrates Palm Sunday mass behind closed doors

Pope Francis has begun the first of several Holy Week ceremonies that will be held behind closed doors this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Pope Francis backs UN chief’s call for global ceasefire amid coronavirus pandemic

Pope Francis on Sunday backed a call by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for a global ceasefire so the world can focus on fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0