Pope Francis made a thinly-veiled swipe at Donald Trump as the Pontiff defended Latino immigrants who came to America at ‘great personal cost’ during a moving speech to 40,000 followers in Philadelphia. Francis called on migrants from Mexico and the rest of the world to “not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships” they face, saying they should never feel ashamed of their own traditions.
Pope Francis is reminding Americans of the centrality of religious liberty in their lives. During an address in the evocative venue of Philadelphia’s Independence Park, the pontiff called the park “symbolic of the American way.”
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood is lashing out at the Pope, after he’s repeatedly spoken up for the right to life of the unborn in his visit to the United States, accusing him of limiting women’s rights and hampering “women’s health.”
In his first address in Philadelphia Saturday morning, Pope Francis urged those listening to embrace their call to be missionaries and evangelizers, instead of waiting for someone else to preach the gospel.
On Saturday in Washington, D.C. at the Values Voter Summit host by the Family Research Council, conservative talk show host Mark Levin addressed attendees in an interview conducted with FRC president Tony Perkins. The two engaged in a discussion about
Columnist Pat Buchanan stated that Pope Francis I “is not a traditionalist” on “faith and morals,” “is clearly a man of the left,” and entertains “ideas which have caused the church itself to be in confusion and division” on Friday’s
A stampede in Mecca on the last day of the hajj pilgrimage took the lives of over 100 Iranian citizens, as the total death toll from the incident has surged to over 700 people, and the leaders of the regime in Tehran are furious with Saudi officials for their alleged negligence.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher said that liberals are also picking and choosing which parts of Pope Francis I’s teachings to listen to on Friday’s “Real Time.” While Maher praised a lot of the pope’s rhetoric, and criticized Republicans
Many conservatives viewed the prospect of the Pope’s visit to the United States with a mixture of hope and trepidation: hope, because the Pope’s visit would force heavy media coverage of religious issues; trepidation, because of Pope Francis’ mixed record on issues ranging from climate change to illegal immigration.
During a Mass celebrated in English, Spanish, and Latin, Pope Francis told some 20,000 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, “God is living in our cities.”
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, a longtime Democrat, says she is switching to the Republican Party because she feels abandoned by Democrats in her crusade against same-sex marriage.
In his address to the United Nations, Francis told the assembly that the limitation of power is “an idea implicit in the concept of law itself.” Citing the classic definition of justice as giving to each his own, Francis said that “no human individual or group can consider itself absolute, permitted to bypass the dignity and the rights” of others.
The Pope, who is in New York City where he has addressed the United Nations and will celebrate Mass at Madison Square Garden later Friday evening, laid a white rose along the edge of the pool that marks the footprint of the south tower of what was formerly the World Trade Center. “Here grief is palpable,” the Pope said.
The Pope encouraged the children to live with joy in their hearts. “I see you smiling. Keep living like this,” the Pope said. “Help others to experience joy. It’s not easy. In every home there are problems, difficult situations, sickness. But don’t stop dreaming of living with joy.” Departing from his written text for a moment in his meeting with Harlem schoolchildren Friday afternoon, Pope Francis turned to one of his favorite topics, telling the students and their teachers that the devil is a killjoy who tries to spoil our dreams and destroy our happiness.
A star-studded concert is preceding Pope Francis’ celebration of Mass on Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The program, called “A Journey of Faith,” features Gloria Estefan, who will sing “Mas Alla (Beyond),” a Spanish spiritual ballad that she recorded in 1995, and which she also sang for Pope John Paul II.
These are the men who were seen on video shouting at Davis and demanding she issue them a marriage license in accord with the Supreme Court Obergefell decision that imposed gay marriage on the country. When she refused, Federal judge David Bunning jailed her for five days.
The leader of the Catholic Church will drop a progressive rock album in November to spread his message of “hope, faith and unity,” according to Rolling Stone.
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian took a break from posting risqué photos of her pregnant body this week to comment on Pope Francis’ American visit, but ended up confusing some people after her use of a slang term was lost in translation.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke Friday in Washington, DC at the Family Research Council’s 10th annual Values Voter Summit. In that address, Trump took on those who accused him of being thin-skinned, to which he argued that it was
Elements of an analysis of Islamists who left Germany to travel to Syria and Iraq have been leaked ahead of official publication later this year. The results, intended for use by security agencies as a basis for preventing Islamic radicalisation, are said to
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) came into the Values Voter Summit with jokes targeting Democrat Hillary Clinton. Cruz asked the crowd, “How many of ya’ll have watched the Republican debates?” He then said it was fantastic that there was such an array of leaders stepping up on the GOP side. “What a contrast, with the Democrats!”
Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is praising both Pope Francis and President Obama for bringing “moral leadership” on the issue of climate change.
Pope Francis says “religious freedom and, more generally, spiritual freedom” are “pillars of integral human development,” his most recent in a chain of appeals for religious liberty during his U.S. visit.
Pope Francis is appealing to “a moral law written into human nature itself” to assert the sacredness of every human life, including that of the unborn. A “fight against exclusion,” the Pope said in his address before the United Nations General Assembly Friday, demands “absolute respect for life in all its stages and dimensions.”
Pope Francis saved all his conservative civic and social-issues message for the various heads-of-state gathered at the UN General Assembly in New York. The Pope praised human rights norms that are championed in UN documents — but then scolded their misuse.
