Pope Francis

2022 - 12 - 28

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Pope Francis says predecessor Benedict is very ill (BBC News)

Pope Francis has said former Pope Benedict XVI is very ill and he has asked pilgrims at the Vatican to pray for him. Benedict, 95, became the first leader ...

But his papacy was marked by a scandal involving child sexual abuse by priests. Benedict had presided over his predecessor John Paul's funeral Mass. At the end of the Pope's final audience of the year, he asked people to "pray a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict".

Former Pope Benedict is 'very sick', Pope Francis says (CNN)

Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is "very sick" after a ...

“Sadly, many clergy abuse victims are not out of the woods in terms of healing from their wounds and getting the justice they deserve,” SNAP wrote. Benedict’s announcement marked the first time a pope had stepped down in nearly 600 years. He is very sick,” Francis said during his general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday. “We ask the Lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the Church to the very end.” Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Washington, DC, asked Catholics and “folks of good will to pray for Benedict XVI,” in a Twitter post Wednesday. Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is “very sick” after a deterioration in his health on Wednesday.

Former Pope Benedict XVI live updates: Vatican and Pope Francis ... (AS English)

Join us for all the latest news on the condition of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, who served as the head of the Catholic Church for eight years.

As you have likely heard, the former pope Benedict XVI's health condition appears to be deteriorating rapidly and, unfortunately, the latest news coming out of the Vatican is not positive He is very sick, asking the Lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the Church, until the end," Francis said, speaking in Italian. "I would like to ask all of you for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict, who, in silence, is sustaining the Church. Francis made the surprise appeal at the end of his general audience, giving no further details. Benedict of Norcia. I mentioned earlier the fact that a movie had been made about the two popes.

UPDATE: Pope Francis asks prayers for ailing Pope Benedict (USCCB)

The Vatican says retired Pope Benedict XVI is in serious, but stable condition the day after Pope Francis described him as "very sick" and asked people to ...

The retired pope has looked increasingly frail, but as recently as Dec. The square was filled with pilgrims, tourists and families taking advantage of the holidays to see the Nativity scene and visit St. "I can confirm that in the last few hours there has been a worsening (of Pope Benedict's health) due to advancing age," Bruni said. In the 24 hours after Pope Francis asked for prayers for his predecessor, news crews started heading to St. Pope Francis greets retired Pope Benedict XVI at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery in this file photo taken Aug. 30 in the Basilica of St.

Papal calendar: 2023 holds important events for Pope Francis (Catholic News Service)

Pope Francis will soon pack his bags for his first foreign trip of 2023, a year that promises to be as busy as ever. The pope, who celebrated his 86th ...

Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, celebrated his 75th birthday Dec. In 2021 another allegation of abuse was made by several women who belonged to the Loyola Community he served as a spiritual adviser in Slovenia; the doctrinal office ruled that the statute of limitations had passed and closed the case. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, turned 75 in September. Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, celebrated his 76th birthday in July. Pope Francis greets the crowd from a wheelchair after praying in front of a Marian statue at the Spanish Steps in Rome Dec. The gathering scheduled for 2023 is only the first session.

Four trips, two cancellations: The Pope's travels in 2022 (Aleteia EN)

Four trips abroad, four stops in Italy and two cancelled trips. Despite his health issues, Pope Francis has traveled the world this year.

A little over a month later, on September 24, Pope Francis went to Assisi, in the region of Umbria. This second trip to the Arabian Peninsula for a pope comes after the groundwork laid in 2019, when the Pontiff signed the Document on Human Fraternity with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Abu Dhabi. In the tense context of the war in Ukraine, the pope was only able to speak to the Patriarch’s representative, Metropolitan Anthony Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department of Foreign Ecclesiastical Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/vatican-mulling-jerusalem-meeting-between-pope-russian-patriarch-sources-2022-04-11/) had reported that the Vatican was considering extending the Pope’s trip to Lebanon to allow him to stop in Jerusalem and meet the Russian Orthodox Patriarch, Kirill. The official reason given for the cancellation was the health problems of the 85-year-old pope, who is in chronic pain from a knee injury. His first stop was in L’Aquila, in the Abruzzo region, on August 28. Held in the capital city, Astana, this annual event organized by the Kazakh government is supposed to promote and foster interreligious dialogue. There, during his first speech, he apologized for the Church’s role in the abuses committed against the Indigenous populations. During this short trip he in fact also visited around 200 migrants which were hosted in the John XXIII Peace Lab in the southern part of the island. These were state-sponsored places of forced cultural assimilation of young Indigenous generations in the 19th and 20th centuries, where many abuses were perpetrated. This “penitential pilgrimage,” as the Pontiff himself described it, was part of a process of reconciliation initiated by Indigenous peoples and the local Catholic Church, over the trauma inflicted on these populations due to the residential school system. During this trip the Pontiff retraced the steps of St.