“The pope is the pope and it’s great to have ... said that he appreciated the “many personal details” the book added to Francis’ biography, but that much had been written through ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II represented. In Catholic theological terms, St. Pope John Paul II and Benedict ...

Mr Gian Maria Vian, a former editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, said he appreciated the “many personal details” the book added to Pope Francis’ biography ...

The sudden death two years ago of Cardinal George Pell, the Australian prelate Pope Francis had enlisted to clean up the Vatican’s finances, left the Catholic conservative cohort in Rome without an ...

Pope Francis was born in 1936, and grew up in Buenos Aires, in the barrio of Flores, a simple neighbourhood. After spells working in a sock factory, Francis became a Jesuit novice in 1958 ...

Pope Francis received one of the U.S.'s top honors, published a memoir, and facilitated relations between Washington and Havana.

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The biography also addresses his final years ... not just advocacy for the poor in common with Pope Francis, but his actual practical action for the poor,” Livingstone said.

Also on the programme: Pope Francis’s biography is published and leaders of Nato’s Baltic nations talk defence. Then: has there been a “breakthrough” in a deal between Israel and Hamas? Plus: the life ...

Building on Livingstone’s much shorter biography published in 2002 before ... that was highly critical of Pope Francis and the pontificate in general. She reveals it was partly composed by ...

The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...

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