Keralite priest George Jacob Koovakad and Pope Francis In a grand consistory held in the Vatican Saturday, 51-year-old Keralite priest George Jacob Koovakad was elevated to the rank of cardinal by Pope Francis. Koovakad will be remembered in history as the first priest to be directly elevated as a cardinal from India. The other cardinals…
Pope Francis talks with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi during a private audience at the Vatican. (Reuters) VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has offered to give refuge on Vatican territory to Myanmar‘s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Italian media said on Tuesday. “I asked for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi…
NEW DELHI: Among the several high-level bilateral talks in the agenda for Prime Minister Modi during his visit to Italy for the G7 summit, is a rare meeting with Pope Francis.According to the Vatican, the Pope will meet PM Modi on the sidelines of the summit in Italy’s Borgo Egnazia.Francis, who in January warned against…
On Monday, the Vatican deemed sex-change procedures, gender fluidity, and surrogacy to be grave abuses of human dignity, ranking them alongside abortion and euthanasia as activities that contradict God’s plan for humanity. The Vatican doctrinal office released “Infinite Dignity,” a 20-page pronouncement that has been in the works for five years. Source link
