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The pope's official seat is in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, considered the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, and his official residence is the Apostolic Palace. He also possesses a summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, situated on the site of the ancient city of Alba Longa.
Pope Francis is described as being in close continuity with the Second Vatican Council of Catholic bishops (1962–1965) that strove to read the "signs of the times" and address new questions that had challenged the Catholic Church in the mid-twentieth century, such as its appeal to non-Western cultures. [9]
Pope Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936 [18] in Flores, [19] a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. [18] He was the eldest [20] of five children from Mario José Bergoglio (1908–1959) and Regina María Sívori (1911–1981).
Pope Francis celebrates the 10th anniversary of his election Monday, far outpacing the “two or three” years he once envisioned for his papacy and showing no signs of slowing down. On the ...
Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: [1] that, in ...
Chapter 4 is a development and defining of one particular characteristic of this primatial power, namely the pope's supreme teaching authority, i.e. when the pope speaks ex cathedra a he teaches the doctrine of the faith infallibly. There is general agreement that the pope has only twice exercised his authority to proclaim a dogma apart from an ...
We're discussing the voting process depicted in the new papal thriller "Conclave" (in theaters now). Light spoilers ahead! Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of ...
What happens at the end of Conclave? What is the pope's secret? Is the pope a woman? The stars break down the ending of the pope's gender and explain what it means.