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Pope Francis has once again appealed to Catholic priests to keep their homilies short, this time warning that homilies should be no longer than eight minutes or “people will fall asleep.” Speaking in St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday catechesis on June 12, the pope explained that the goal of...

Pope Francis has said that reading novels and poems is valuable in “one’s path to personal maturity” and should be encouraged in the training of future priests. Novelists CS Lewis and Marcel Proust as well as poets TS Eliot and Paul Celan were quoted by the head of the Catholic church in a...

Askofu Mkuu wa Italia Carlo Maria Viganò, aliyekuwa balozi wa kipapa nchini Marekani ambaye aligeuka kuwa mkosoaji wa kihafidhina wa Papa Francis, amefukuzwa kutoka kanisa kwa ajili ya kuzua mgawanyiko. Vatikani ilisema katika taarifa kwamba kiongozi huyo alikataa "kutambua na kutii" mamlaka ya...

I. Abstract “What indeed has Jerusalem to do with Athens, the Church with the Academy, the Christian with the heretic?… After Jesus we have no need of speculation, after the Gospel no need of research.”--Tertullian of Carthage, North Africa (155-240 AD),. “Do not think that we say that these...

Kiongozi wa kanisa katoliki duniani ametoa waraka unaoelezea kuhusu mambo mbalimbali ikiwemo suala la mahusiano baina ya waumini. Katika waraka huo Kiongozi huyo ameruhusu makasisi wa kanisa hilo kuwapokea na ikibidi kuwabariki wale wanaojihusisha na mahusiano ya jinsia moja. Akisisitiza kwamba...

Habari zenu wana-jf wenzangu! Tumsifu Yesu Kristu! Hakuna kizuri kisichokuwa na dosari na vilevile hakuna kibaya kisichokuwa na uzuri wowote. Sasa je ni yapi mazuri na mabaya na changamoto katika uongozi wa papa Francis!

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday introduced a landmark change allowing any baptized lay Catholic, male or female, to head most departments as part of a new constitution for the Vatican's central administration. For centuries, the departments have been headed by male clerics...

Kampeni ya utoaji wa chanjo ya Corona katika mji wa Vatican iliyoanza siku ya Jumatano inaendelea na miongoni mwa waliopatiwa chanjo hiyo ni Papa Francis na Papa Emeritus Benedict XVI ambapo wamepatiwa dozi ya kwanza. Nathibitisha kuwa katika kampeni hizi za utoaji chanjo ya corona katika mji...