Vatican City
Visiting a country with a fragile health care system in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic is not a good idea, infectious disease experts said.
The first-term lawmaker didn't think a new rule about vaccinations in Vatican City sounded legal, even though Vatican City is an independent state.
Citing guidelines from Pope Francis' coronavirus commission, the Vatican decreed that staff can't opt out of the vaccine without a medical reason.
Thanks to Pope Francis, Sister Nathalie Becquart can likely vote at the next synod of bishops in 2022.
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The pope will miss out on services at St. Peter's Basilica because of “painful sciatica,” a Vatican official said.
The pontiff urged world leaders to “promote cooperation and not competition, and to search for a solution for all.”
The pontiff urged world leaders to “promote cooperation and not competition, and to search for a solution for all.”
Some churchmen in the United States had argued that such products were immoral.
Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington D.C., views his appointment as “an affirmation of Black Catholics in the United States."
High-ranking Catholic clergy dismissed reports that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was abusing seminarians and children, a Vatican investigation found.