And even before the current papacy, the American right and the papacy were never a perfect fit.
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What all this means for Francis's papacy, however, is unclear.
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John Paul I held the papacy for just 33 days.
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Unity was given concrete expression in the papacy and church hierarchy.
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And the top job — the papacy — has been strictly for males.
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The chairmanship certainly has some of the pomp of the papacy.
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Five years into his papacy, Pope Francis is a polarizing figure.
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Francis has long made environmentalism a touchstone issue of his papacy.
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And I have been praying for Francis since he assumed the papacy.
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Francis never addresses his critics, or the controversies of his papacy, directly.
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Francis has made defense of migrants a key part of his papacy.
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Francis' outreach to Muslims worldwide has been a theme of his papacy.
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He's the second American president to visit the Vatican under Francis' papacy.
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Perceptions of the papacy, or at least of the pope, have improved.
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Francis took office at a time of unprecedented change for the papacy.
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The bywords of Francis's papacy have been synodality, decentralization, accompaniment, pastoral care.
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Clothing has been such a flash point for debates around Francis's papacy.
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These questions have come to mark the controversial pontiff's papacy more broadly.
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This was "a turning point for Francis' papacy" a Vatican official said.
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This week marks the five-year anniversary of the papacy of Pope Francis.
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Both have their concerns that unresolved childhood anxieties might negatively affect Pius's papacy.
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The papacy of Pius IX, for many of these Catholics, exemplifies these qualities.
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Themes that have come to define Francis' papacy include poverty, mercy, and joy.
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One of the most intriguing aspects of Francis's papacy, from the Latin American
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Francis removed the cardinal from power in 2013, eight months into his papacy.
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He published tracts and pamphlets ridiculing both the papacy and fellow Protestant theologians.
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Since the beginning, Francis's papacy has galvanized conservative ranks within the Vatican hierarchy.
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There are several theological themes dominating his papacy so far: poverty, mercy, and joy.
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Francis isn't opposed to traditional liturgy — it's just not the priority of his papacy.
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Pope John Paul II held the papacy until he died on April 2, 2005.
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How did the Renaissance papacy so badly misjudge the moment, accelerating the Protestant Reformation?
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His papacy has been a consistent rebuke to American culture-war Christianity in politics.
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" At the beginning of his papacy, he called the internet "a gift from God.
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Francis watched from afar as Benedict's papacy unraveled under the weight of successive scandals.
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At the end of Benedict's papacy, just 40 percent of Americans viewed him favorably.
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In 2013, the year Francis began his papacy, Trump compared himself to the pope favorably.
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Specifically, the course of Pope Benedict's (Anthony Hopkins) election and later resignation from the papacy.
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Smaller purges took place under Pope Pius XII, whose papacy stretched from 1939 to 1958.
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Those gestures also signaled his wish to unhitch the papacy from the office's authoritarian legacy.
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Symbolically, the papacy is meant to be a "contrast structure" to worldly forms of authority.
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With her matching miter, she looked ready to assume the papacy, should the occasion arise.
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"For six years of his papacy he has said, 'zero tolerance, zero tolerance,' " he added.
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One of the most defining acts of Francis's papacy was among its first: when the former Archbishop Jorge Maria Bergoglio chose the papal name Francis I. Historically, popes used their choice of name to signal, to an extent, the defining values of their papacy.
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The suggestion that Pope Francis knew about McCarrick's offenses, and nevertheless chose to break with his predecessor in order to rehabilitate him — the first time a pope has been directly implicated in participating in a cover-up during his papacy — could torpedo Francis's papacy.
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The Mexico trip also comes as Francis is entering a potentially defining period of his papacy.
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That plot saw Cardinal Spencer (James Cromwell), Pius' arch-conservative mentor, passed over for the papacy.
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" Prior to his papacy, in Argentina, Bergoglio called gay marriage "a destructive attack on God's plan.
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After his election to the papacy, Pope John took his assistant with him to the Vatican.
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Douthat: Isn't that a deep contradiction of how Catholics think about the office of the papacy?
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In the world of the papacy, there is only one Pope at a time...until now.
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Red-tape slicing in the service of compassion and love are the hallmarks of Francis' papacy.
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My fervent prayer is that grace pervades a papacy in the spotlight during this week's summit.
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Francis, the first Latin American pope, has made defense of immigrants a major plank of his papacy.
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On Wojtyla's election to the papacy in 1978, he named Father Macharski to succeed him as archbishop.
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But the appeal of the institution of the Papacy, for many, lies in its promise of constancy.
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Francis, the first pope from Latin America, has made defending the poor a hallmark of his papacy.
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He announced Sunday that he would miss the Lenten retreat for the first time in his papacy.
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As viewers recall, this isn't the first time that Law has de-clothed for his papacy role.
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The meeting came as Pope Francis faces a major challenge to his papacy, and to his legacy.
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He argues that Francis's papacy is dangerous because it puts the church, as an institution, in jeopardy.
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In keeping with his namesake, Francis has also made concern for the environment another linchpin of his papacy.
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Only a month into his papacy, Pope Francis called for swift action against Catholic officials accused of abuse.
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John Paul, who allowed abuse to fester during his papacy, made Archbishop McCarrick a cardinal the following year.
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Five years into his papacy, Francis' radical reprioritization on the world's poor has imbued much of the Vatican.
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With Thursday&aposs ceremony, the College of Cardinals includes 74 named by Francis during his 5-year-old papacy.
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Take a page from Leo X: Since God has given you the papacy' you may as well enjoy it!
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It is a theme that the pontiff has hit on throughout his papacy, including at previous World Economic Forums.
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At Friday's meeting, he presented Santos with a medal and copies of the three encyclicals produced during his papacy.
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But he transformed the day into one of the most eye-catching and arresting of his three-year papacy.
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Indeed, these dissident movements had already challenged the papacy and the priesthood, transubstantiation, indulgences, relics, icons, and clerical celibacy.
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It was the fourth time in his five-year papacy that Francis has celebrated Mass in an Italian jail.
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The pontiff will not attend a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy due to a cold.
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The relentlessly spreading abuse scandal poses the greatest challenge that Pope Francis has faced to his papacy and legacy.
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Ross Douthat By the standards of the Francis papacy, things were rather quiet in Rome for much of 2017.
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Francis's decision to request a "development" of doctrine, therefore, is worth considering within the context of his wider papacy.
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The pope also commented on internal criticism of his papacy by conservatives, led by American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke.
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Traditionalists hanker for the papacy of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who retired to a life of prayer three years ago.
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Pope Francis, for his part, has addressed climate change and global warming numerous times over the course of his papacy.
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"It is a rather critical moment of Francis' papacy," said Sandro Magister, a Vatican expert at the Italian weekly L'Espresso.
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The resulting outrage, the harshest he had faced in his papacy, led him to send his top investigator to Chile.
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The crisis has also badly damaged the church's standing and imperiled the papacy of Francis, who turned 82 this week.
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Also, it was really sexy, an adjective that has rarely ever been used to describe anything related to the Papacy.
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The fourth, Angelo Scola, was another Benedict XVI confidant and a leading contender for the papacy at the last conclave.
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The prelates who organized the summit argued that any papal edicts might fall flat or fade away with Francis' papacy.
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For many — especially in the secular media — Francis's change in tone from his predecessors has made his papacy unquestionably successful.
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In 20083, a week after he assumed the papacy, John Paul wrote to Dr. Tymieniecka, pledging to keep up their correspondence.
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It almost goes without saying that the long and storied history of the papacy has seen its fair share of controversies.
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Francis was elected to the papacy on March 13, 2013, to replace Benedict XVI, who resigned from office two weeks earlier.
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For some Catholics, Friday's decision was a deep disappointment on an issue that has shadowed Francis's papacy and threatened his legacy.
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When Francis assumed the papacy from Benedict in 2013 he was a charismatic leader whose very utterances were seen as action.
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The nine-episode original from Sorrentino is his second series set in the world of the modern papacy, according to HBO.
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The crisis presents a crucial test for Francis' papacy, which has stumbled badly at times to address sexual abuse among clergy.
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From the moment Pope John XXIII began his papacy in 1958, he was especially outspoken on the topic of nuclear war.
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Before he began his papacy in 2013, Pope Francis had worked with Mr. Zanchetta in Argentina, according to The Washington Post.
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His avoidance of Argentina is unusual: John Paul II frequented Poland, and Benedict XVI started his papacy in his native Germany.
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The papacy of Francis at first ignited great hope that much that has driven generations from the church could be remedied.
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During Francis's papacy, McCarrick served as a trusted Vatican adviser and influential voice on both internal church appointments and global affairs.
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Yet from the beginning of his papacy it has been abundantly clear that Francis has shifted the tone of the Catholic Church.
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Though it was composed for the Second Vatican Council, "Vatican Rag" fits gracefully into a debate about liberalism in the current papacy.
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Francis, who was elected in 2013, acknowledged he made one bad judgment early in his papacy concerning an Italian priest, Mauro Inzoli.
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This is a discomfiting viewing experience, considering that the Crusades were a three-century-long bloodbath launched by the papacy against Muslims.
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He announced that, for the first time in his seven-year papacy, he would cancel his participation in a weeklong spiritual retreat.
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According to National Catholic Reporter, Senèze's book focuses on two campaigns launched by American Catholics disturbed by the innovations of Francis' papacy.
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" The pope, who recently turned 81, is in the fifth year of a papacy that supporters and critics have both called "revolutionary.
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His approach to the death penalty, therefore, falls well within wider trends in both his own papacy and the Vatican more broadly.
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Mexico is a veritable canvas on which Francis can play to his strengths, providing the full menu of themes central to his papacy.
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The new series is not a sequel, but a "second limited series set in the world of the modern papacy," according to IndieWire.
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S. relations during the final years of the pontificate of St. John Paul II and the start of Pope Benedict XVI&aposs papacy.
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So, for example, during his papacy from 2005 to 2013, the conservative Benedict XVI embraced some of the more "old-school" papal looks.
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The October 2006 letter was sent by then-Archbishop Leonardo Sandri at the Vatican secretariat of state during the papacy of Benedict XVI.
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"You have forgotten God!" he raves, declaring that his papacy will abandon the feel-good rhetoric of reaching out to one's fellow man.
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Coming seven years into his papacy, the decision raised the question of whether his promotion of discussing once-taboo issues was largely talk.
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She served on the commission on child protection — appointed by Francis at the start of his papacy — that proposed the tribunal for bishops.
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Pope Francis's handling of the crisis has been widely criticized, with just 53 percent of American Catholics approving of his papacy as of October.
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But the majority of the book is a conversation between Francis and Tornielli, who has established himself as an enthusiastic chronicler of Francis's papacy.
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Life imitated art the day after its premiere with the suicide bomb attack on Cairo's Saint Mark's Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic papacy.
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In 228, the papacy officially laid down the legal definition of mortadella, threatening dire consequences for those who dared to go against the guild.
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The announcement capped a brief trip by the pope to Greece that again placed the plight of migrants at the center of his papacy.
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His ability to stick to deadlines often exhausted him, but it ensured a steady stream of important commissions from the Medici and the papacy.
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Earlier in his papacy, while fielding questions from the Vatican press corps on a plane, he was asked about the Church's stance on homosexuality.
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Contributing Opinion Writer One pope was a father of 10 through multiple mistresses, a man who purchased the papacy with mule-loads of silver.
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In the time the newspaper didn't publish, turmoil in Iran intensified, the Camp David accords were signed and a new papacy began and ended.
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The unsubstantiated allegations and personal attacks amounted to an extraordinary public declaration of war by traditionalists at a particularly vulnerable moment in Francis' papacy.
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On Thursday, Francis also approved a step toward sainthood for Pope John Paul I, who died in 1978 only 33 days into his papacy.
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In the time the newspaper was away, turmoil in Iran intensified, the Camp David accords were signed and a new papacy began and ended.
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During his papacy, it has been rare for Francis to show annoyance with the behavior of crowds, though certain moments have set him off.
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Francis, who has used his papacy to champion the causes peace and justice, has often suggested that Christians can work closely together on humanitarian projects.
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It also represents a continuation of "a more forgiving, merciful direction for the Church" since Pope Francis began his papacy in 2013, according to CNN.
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These five defining incidents of Francis's papacy best reflect how these dynamics have informed his time in the Holy See, for better and for worse.
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"It is unfortunately possible to see all the reflections and traces of Crusader mentality in the actions of the papacy and the pope," he said.
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According to one report, he retired to the abbey of Grottaferrata, resigned all claims to the papacy and spent his last years as a penitent.
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Francis has made defence of the environment an important plank of his papacy, backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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As the controversy over "Amoris Laetitia" has grown, the thirty-eight-year-old Douthat has become perhaps the most prominent lay critic of Francis's papacy.
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It was the latest in a series of measures by the Vatican to counter criticism that fighting abuse was not a priority for Francis' papacy.
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From the start of his papacy, Francis has spoken out on behalf of the millions of men, women and children who are trafficked and enslaved.
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Stephen then took over the papacy and the Council Dreadful, which dug up Formosus and propped him on his throne to answer for his crimes.
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US Catholics 'mostly confident' in Pope Francis The Gallup poll was released on March 13, the 6th anniversary of Pope Francis election to the papacy.
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In the first year of his papacy, Pope Francis chose Cardinal O'Malley to lead a new initiative, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
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Francis, who has made defense of migrants and refugees a major plank of his papacy, said overcoming the current migration crisis "demands a change in mindset".
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But the most memorable moments of his papacy, such as his long public embrace of a man terribly disfigured by a skin disease, are completely unscripted.
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Now he is going further afield in an effort to show he is serious about putting poor and peripheral places at the center of his papacy.
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Francis has made defence of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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Pride of place goes to the Roman Catholic Church, which with less fanfare (perhaps because the papacy lacks a nuclear arsenal) has also entered terra incognita.
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Remarks Francis made in Chile that were offensive to victims of sexual abuse focused attention on an explosive issue that has threatened to derail his papacy.
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The pontiff's visit to Colombia was his 20th trip abroad, and his fifth to his native Latin America, since he ascended to the papacy in 2013.
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This is the third synod convened by Francis, now in the fifth year of his papacy; one in the Amazon region is scheduled for next year.
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Former members say Maciel gave huge contributions to the Vatican during the papacy of John Paul, who admired the Legionaries' orthodoxy and ability to produce vocations.
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"Early on he promised a short papacy," said Williams, the Breitbart voice in Rome, who shrugs away the chance to handicap the longevity of Pope Francis.
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Click through to see who will be joining the papacy of The New Pope from The Young Pope and who is brand new to the series.
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Analysts say Francis, who has made deepening ecumenical ties a centerpiece of his papacy, was able to achieve a meeting because of a complex confluence of factors.
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As more cases were exposed during his papacy, Francis has come to denounce what he calls a "culture of abuse and cover-up" in the Catholic church.
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But where we are, more than five years into the Francis papacy, is that Pope Francis has almost completely neutered the traditional power structures in the Vatican.
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From the moment the Pontifex stepped onto the public stage in 43 he was digital recorded, immediately creating one of the most iconic images of his papacy.
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Pope Francis has made defence of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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But the German pontiff went out of his way to engage in respectful theological dialogue with Jewish interlocutors and on balance his papacy is seen as positive.
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Pope Francis has made defense of the environment a key plank of his papacy, strongly backing scientific opinion that global warming is caused mostly by human activity.
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Francis, 82, marking the sixth Christmas of his papacy, led a solemn service for nearly 10,000 people in St. Peter's Basilica for his traditional Christmas Eve Mass.
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But Pope Francis, whose papacy is being tested by an avalanche of sex abuse scandals from around the globe, has yet to publicly talk about the report.
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In the postwar Communist years, party apparatchiks in Poland tried to control the church, and the pope's opposition to Communism would be one signature of his papacy.
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Paul also became the first pope in modern times to travel outside Italy to see faithful, ushering in a practice which has become synonymous with the papacy.
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The pope has been increasingly assertive over the spring, five years into his papacy, especially after he seemed hobbled by missteps on the Chilean sexual abuse scandal.
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The pope, who has made defense of migrants a major part of his papacy and has often called the Mediterranean a cemetery, has criticized the closing of ports.
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Francis's white-glove slap to the West stands to undermine his work by exposing him to charges of hypocrisy and calling into doubt the sanctity of the papacy.
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In his Sunday sermon, he linked the pope's remarks about "walls" to many of the social justice themes he has sounded since his papacy began in March 2013.
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Perhaps it's a mistake to focus too much energy on analysing one of the spontaneous, from-the-heart outbursts which have been a hallmark of the current papacy.
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"The Vatican controls who comes in, when they come in and how they come in as a nation-state or a city-state," Rubio added of the papacy.
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At least 25 people, mostly women and children, were initially killed when a bomb exploded in a chapel adjoining St Mark's Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic papacy.
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The Vatican knew as early as 2000, during the papacy of John Paul II, about complaints from seminarians that Archbishop McCarrick was pressuring them to share his bed.
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Those missteps deeply handicapped Benedict's papacy, and in 2012 the Vatican, in a rare acknowledgment of error, hired Mr. Burke from Fox, where he was a Rome correspondent.
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The report came as Pope Francis summoned bishops from around the world to gather in February to address a crisis that has rattled the church, and his papacy.
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Though Brannox probably has a different approach to the papacy than the more traditional Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity was revolutionary in a similar way to The Middle Way.
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Among the many important decisions Lenny Belardo, aka Pope Pius XIII, has to make at the beginning of his papacy is how best to cultivate his global image.
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At least 49 people were wounded when the bomb went off in a chapel adjoining St Mark's Cathedral, Cairo's largest church and seat of the Coptic Christian papacy.
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Throughout his papacy, Francis has criticized the lack of that higher purpose in the technocratic liberal administrations of Europe and the Americas that have dominated since the 1980s.
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On the other hand, this pope has made "Christian encounters" a hallmark of his papacy, and he himself is not entirely allergic to the cultural conservatism of evangelicals.
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Appointing new cardinals is one of the most significant powers of the papacy, allowing a pontiff to put his stamp on the future of the 1.2 billion-member Church.
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He also mentioned the "Vatileaks" case in which his butler leaked documents alleging corruption at the Vatican, but said overall there had been a "positive movement" during his papacy.
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A similar meeting took place in Rome with American bishops in 2002 during the papacy of Pope John Paul after a sexual abuse crisis exploded in the United States.
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It also indicates that the American political divide between conservative and progressive Catholics may be widening, a fracture we've already seen intensify globally under the papacy of Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Roman Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, has made financial reform a central plank of his papacy.
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Several 15th-century Latin copies of Columbus' original letter were made to spread the news of Columbus' discovery around the courts of Europe and the papacy, according to Reuters.
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Francis, the first pope from Latin America, has made concern for the poor and the weakest members of society a key platform of his nearly four-year-old papacy.
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And I don't think we're any closer to a definite answer to what happens to conservative Catholicism when it no longer seems to have the papacy on its side.
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And I don't think we're any closer to a definite answer to what happens to conservative Catholicism when it no longer seems to have the papacy on its side.
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Rome (CNN)Several dozen conservative Catholic scholars and clergy have charged Pope Francis with spreading heresy, a bold but perhaps futile salvo against Francis and his reform-minded papacy.
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In his prayer, which the huge crowd listened to in near silence, Francis also hammered home another major theme of his papacy - justice for the poor, refugees and outcasts.
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But Mr. Schmitz fails to see that mercy, the great theme of Francis' papacy, is not only hard, but that it is also the most fundamental of Jesus' teachings.
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Francis, who has long struggled to respond to the issue that threatens his papacy, has called a meeting in February with the presidents of bishop conferences around the world.
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The Vatican and U.S. Church officials announced the investigation on Thursday as the pope was meeting U.S. Catholic Church leaders to discuss a scandal that has shaken his papacy.
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But Benedict, the first pope to resign in almost 600 years, refused to fully renounce the papacy, taking the title "pope emeritus" and continuing to live in the Vatican.
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It controls the contributions of the faithful to the papacy—charmingly, if modestly, known as Peter's Pence (St Peter being the apostle chosen by Jesus to lead his church).
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Pope Francis has made the work to combat climate change a defining cause of his papacy — something he has spoken and written about very often and at great length.
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The Associated Press reported Monday that excerpts from the new book affirm the "necessity" of celibacy for priests, an issue Francis has grappled since the start of his papacy.
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The scandal around sexual abuse has escalated into the biggest test yet of Francis' papacy, and the resolution will determine the future of the church in the United States.
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"I will say to them: 'Please take your money away, burn it'," said Francis, who has made safeguarding the poor and cleaning up Vatican finances central tenets of his papacy.
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Hunermann, Benedict noted had "led anti-papal initiatives" during Benedict's 2005-2013 papacy and had also attacked some of the writings of Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005.
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While the 81-year-old Francis has said he didn&apost envisage a long papacy, he hasn&apost said explicitly if he&aposd follow in Benedict&aposs footsteps and retire.
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It's also about the ways different Catholic camps conceive of the challenges of — and appropriate response to — modern liberalism, a divide that has only deepened under Pope Francis's controversial papacy.
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Another unsolved topic with a few competing theories, some say Q's references to the papacy-centric Coppola film are meant to implicate the Catholic church in the global pedo ring.
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And I think here what's entered in is a very political view of the papacy, where the pope is some kind of absolute monarch who can do whatever he wants.
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Coming seven years into Francis' papacy, his decision also raised the question of whether his promotion of discussing once-taboo issues is resulting in a pontificate that is largely talk.
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In any event, the shambles casts serious doubt on the judgment of Pope Francis, who made it a priority of his papacy to clean up the Vatican's tenebrous financial sector.
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A Latin translation was manually printed in several copies and they became the main vehicle for spreading news of his find to the royal courts of Europe and the papacy.
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Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has announced that the Vatican next year will open its secret archives containing World War II-era documents from the controversial papacy of Pope Pius XII.
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The debate over Francis's papacy is both a narrow, political debate about the future of the Catholic Church and a broader debate over the nature of ethics, modernity, and liberalism.
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Naming new cardinals is one of the most significant powers of the papacy, allowing a pontiff to put his stamp on the future of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
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Cartel influence in the church was condemned by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 shortly after he began his papacy, but the Vatican's emphasis on the problem seems to have waned since.
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But it would be nearer the mark to say that the Trump era (and the papacy of Francis) has laid bare deep ideological divisions within both the Catholic and evangelical worlds.
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JUST AS Pope Francis struggles to stop his well-regarded papacy being overshadowed by charges of laxity over child abuse, his predecessor has emerged from retirement to make an unexpected intervention.
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Francis, seen as a progressive on some issues for the church, including its attitude towards the LGBT community, has staked a traditionalist position on abortion rights since ascending to the papacy.
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The flaring-up in recent months of the clerical sexual abuse scandal has threatened to engulf Francis's papacy, as patience with him has worn thin among abuse victims and their advocates.
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But for what is sure to be a defining struggle of his papacy, he will need to look beyond the cardinals, prelates and priests — indeed beyond himself — for answers and solutions.
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We talk solemnly about "his Presidency" (so far), just as people in the Middle Ages talked about "his papacy," not as a powerful office but as an epoch of spiritual leadership.
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The issue of married priests has been a focus of deep divisions within the Church, and Vatican sources say it is now likely to languish for the rest of Francis's papacy.
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Francis has made the plight of migrants a centerpiece of his papacy, most prominently urging European leaders to take in migrants displaced from their homes in the Middle East and Africa.
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In Chiapas, Francis extended a running theme of his papacy — the exploitation of native peoples and the need of the Roman Catholic Church to embrace some of their rituals and popular devotions.
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It's all very wavy and fitting with A$AP Mob's brand of luxury and vaguely gothic iconography, especially seeing as how Ferg here looks as though he's ascended to the hood papacy.
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The Polish pontiff visited Mexico fives times during his more than 26 years of papacy, and many Mexicans believed nowhere else in the world had captured his affection to the same degree.
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Relations between the papacy and the Jews have come a long way since 1965, when the landmark Vatican document Nostra Aetate marked a transformation in the Catholic church's attitude to other faiths.
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Francis has made financial reform a central plank of his papacy and under his watch the IOR closed thousands of accounts held by people with little or no connection to the Vatican.
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His notably simple clothing choices and rejection of more magnificent vestments also sound a refrain of his papacy: concern with the poor, and a distrust of the trappings of wealth more generally.
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Francis called for the "global abolition" of capital punishment during his address to the U.S. Congress in 2015, echoing similar remarks made by Pope John Paul II throughout his 26-year papacy.
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"Instagram will help recount the papacy through images, to enable all those who wish to accompany and know more about Pope Francis' pontificate to encounter his gestures of tenderness and mercy," Msgr.
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The pontiff's embrace of social media is in keeping with the forward-looking aspects of his papacy, which have earned the 79-year-old Aregentine the nickname "cool Pope" in certain quarters.
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Two high-profile Catholic thought leaders duked it out last week in a debate over the five-year legacy of Pope Francis — and what his papacy means for a church in crisis.
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When history makes its assessment of the current papacy, the determination of Francis to combat human-trafficking, including the sexual sort, will surely be recorded on the positive side of the balance-sheet.
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Hitherto in his papacy, Pope Francis has won enormous sympathy both inside and outside the Catholic world by coming over as a vulnerable outsider, almost a bewildered stranger, in the corridors of power.
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The presence of the open letter speaks to wider divisions within the church over Francis's papacy, and, in particular, conservative concern that Francis is overstepping the traditional boundaries and protocol of his office.
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It's the latest effort by Francis to respond to the global eruption of the sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has devastated the credibility of the Catholic hierarchy and his own papacy.
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VATICAN CITY – Four months ago, Pope Francis dug himself into the biggest hole of his papacy by strongly defending a Chilean bishop accused by sex abuse victims of witnessing and ignoring their abuse.
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In fact, just six months into his papacy, he thrilled the press and highlighted serious fractures within the Vatican, as he said the church had become "obsessed" with abortion, gay marriage, and contraception.
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In addition to the dead, at least 49 people were wounded when the bomb went off in a chapel adjoining St Mark's Cathedral, Cairo's largest church and seat of the Coptic Christian papacy.
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For several years, it has been clear that the relatively liberal, relatively inclusive style that Francis brings to the papacy is triggering a wave of theological and political opposition in many Catholic quarters.
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Bishop Daniel Flores, who has been traveling with Francis during his five-day trip in Mexico, said the central themes of the Pope's sermon and papacy are the same: a call to conversion.
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It's a major scandal: Francis's dedication to addressing clergy abuse is now in doubt, and this could potentially leave him with fewer allies as conservative factions within the church align against his papacy.
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But Vatican officials pointed out that McCarrick continued to lead a public life even during Benedict's papacy while he was supposedly under sanctions, traveling many times to the Vatican and meeting Benedict himself.
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Today, under Francis, and in the wake of Benedict's resignation—he is now Pope Emeritus, a title that has never existed before—the Papacy has become the site for unexpected shifts and discontinuities.
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Then, when the scandal erupted in Germany, Belgium, France and Austria around 2010 during the papacy of Benedict XVI, the Vatican termed it a problem of the developed world, born of sexual libertinism.
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Since his election to the papacy five years ago, Francis has introduced a less formal, more pragmatic and progressive approach to his ministry, taking strong stands on issues like climate change and consumerism.
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ROME — Since the start of his papacy, Francis has infuriated Catholic traditionalists as he tries to nurture a more welcoming church and shift it away from culture war issues, whether abortion or homosexuality.
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On Tuesday, Italian newspaper Il Messaggero said the pope, who cancelled a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy because he is suffering from a cold, had tested negative for coronavirus.
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In 2007, Benedict himself issued a Motu Proprio increasing access to the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass, a move seen as a microcosm of the church's shift toward traditionalism during his papacy.
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His shedding of the trappings of the papacy and adoption of relative austerity — extending to the use of a very small car as his designated "popemobile" — buttress the assertion of the movie's title.
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Francis will be 83 in December, and given his age, he has from the start of his papacy six years ago approached the role with a certain urgency, often acknowledging his own mortality.
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His pre-election homily against the "dictatorship of relativism" helped get him the job, and his papacy was considered by many as a last-ditch effort to save Europe and its Christian roots.
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Francis arrived in Mozambique on Wednesday on a flight from Rome during which he inadvertently made news by scorning the right-wing conservatives in the United States who are opposed to his papacy.
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When the pope asked Mr. Englisch what Cardinal Müller had been saying about him, Mr. Englisch told him the cardinal had been saying he would try and save Francis' papacy from bad theology.
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In hushed conversations, they lay out a view of the office of the papacy as a figurehead, someone who will post the holy content the bosses (in this case, the other cardinals) demand.
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Smith, whose Irish parents immigrated to America, was vilified for being Catholic at a time when many immigrants were Catholic, and Catholics were believed by Protestants to be suspect because of the papacy.
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Tagle, who is popular at home and around the Catholic world, has been mentioned in the past as a potential candidate for the papacy, including in the conclave that elected Francis in 2013.
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The 82-year-old pope, who has made defense of migrants a plank of his papacy, made the comments in his message for the Catholic Church's World Day of Peace on Jan. 1.
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Faggioli, a self-professed liberal Catholic, and Douthat, a conservative, have long expressed differing views on Francis's papacy, and on the trajectory of the Catholic Church more generally through bold rhetoric on Twitter.
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But his youth has significance, too: The pomp and circumstance of the papacy feels deeply medieval, but the show's director Paolo Sorrentino keeps slipping in jarring juxtapositions of the medieval and the modern.
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A former high-ranking Vatican official says Pope Francis should step down from the papacy because he knew about sexual abuse allegations against an influential American cardinal — and participated in covering them up.
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He defended it on the plane, saying that since he started his papacy in 2013, he had received about 25 requests for pardons by priests convicted of pedophilia, most of them very old.
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"We can no longer pretend to be deaf in the face of one of the greatest environmental crises in history," he said during the mass, returning to a favored theme of his papacy.
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