“Those who work at the Holy See and the Vatican City State certainly do so faithfully and honestly, but the lure of corruption is so dangerous that we must be extremely vigilant,” Pope Francis said.
The Holy Father tells the faithful of the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Ernakulam to conform to the decisions of the Holy Synod or face the risk of being excommunicated declared outside of the Church.
“Meeting the Pope makes you want to cry”, this is how Anna Marco, a real estate consultant, described the indelible memories she had in an extraordinary encounter with Pope John Paul II in 1995, who later became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
Father Dario Vitali emphasized that Synodality will only work if all subjects, namely the people of God, the College of Bishops, and the pope articulate “dynamic unity, synodality, collegiality and primacy.”
“The Church has to change. Let’s think of the ways it has changed since the [Second Vatican] Council until now and the way it must continue changing its ways, in the way to propose an unchanging truth,” said the Holy Father.
"The first Asian woman presided at the at the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on Monday, October 16, for the first time in the history of the Church" Bishop David.
“Please stop the attacks and the weapons and understand that terrorism and war do not lead to any solution, but only to the death and suffering of so many innocent people,” Pope Francis was cited by the Vatican News.
The Holy Father on Monday lengthily responded to questions or doubts called “dubia” presented by five Cardinals, according to the website of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The Holy Father named Cardinal Stephen Chow Sau-yan, S.J., bishop of Hong Kong, China, for the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and Cardinal Sebastian Francis, bishop of Penang, Malaysia, for Promoting Integral Human Development.
Pope Francis has published an Apostolic Exhortation building on his 2015 encyclical. “We’re not reacting enough,” he says, “we’re close to breaking point,” according to Vatican News.
“That is why we ask, in common prayer, to learn again to be silent: to listen to the voice of the Father, the call of Jesus and the groaning of the Spirit,” Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis urged the scientists and experts from the world of technology to work for the ethical use of artificial intelligence, on Monday in the Vatican.
Meeting in the Vatican with a group of parishioners from Rho, in the Milan Archdiocese, Pope Francis highlights the importance of walking together as brothers and sisters, during his audience on Saturday.
“Water must never be the object of waste or abuse, or provide the grounds for war, but must be preserved for our benefit and that of future generations,” Pope Francis says.
