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Pope Francis' First Visit to the U.S. "As Francis makes his first U.S. visit, his emphasis on serving the poor over enforcing doctrine has inspired joy and anxiety in Roman Catholics" -- that is the subheading of an article on Pope Francis by Robert Draper in the August issue of National Geographic
Rev. Clayton Spronk, pastor of Faith PRC in Jenison, Michigan The Wall Street Journal published an article entitled "In 10 Years, Pope Francis Has Disrupted the Catholic Church."1 We take a brief amount of space to note that this title misleads when it refers to the institution that Francis rules as
The document even celebrates diversity as a gift of God grounded in human freedom: "Freedom is a right of every person; each individual enjoys the freedom of belief, thought, expression, and action. The pluralism and the diversity of religions, colour, sex, race, and language are willed by God in h
Pope Francis I, the latest head of the Roman Catholic Church, went on record recently saying that the Big Bang theory is correct. He is also accommodating on homosexuality. How are we to react to this man and his claims? Should we have respect for him and call him “His Holiness” as many people do? S
We all know by now that the Roman Catholic Church has elected a new pope, Francis I, from Argentina. For the first time in hundreds of years a cardinal from Latin America has been chosen to lead the church. This almost makes one wonder whether the Roman church was listening to Wesley Granberg-Michae
Beneath the ornate ceiling of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel a gathering of Roman Catholic cardinals met to elect a new pope. It is fitting that the election of a man who represents all the earthly glory of Rome should take place in the monument that worldly Pope Julius II, papa terribile, built to o
When he was walking out, he told the bishop, “Up to this time have I called Pietro Bernardone my father, but now I desire to serve God and say nothing else than ‘Our Father which art in heaven’.” After the incident with his father, Francis spent some time with the lepers and lived as a hermit. In 1
who does nothing but good works and whose very meekness seems to be featured as something which will save not only himself but many of his fellowmen, while we know that “By grace are ye saved, through faith: and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Francis Of Assisi