St. Pope John Paul II Archives

Vatican tailors, cobblers try to adapt to Francis’s ‘papal athleisure’
- Vatican
- June 12, 2017
Pope Francis’s emphasis on simplicity and frugality is a hit all around the world, but it’s produced just a bit of backlash among fashion-conscious Italians, including an exclusive club of tailors and shoemakers who outfit pontiffs — some of whom are a little nostalgic for the days when being pope also meant dressing to the nines.
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Cardinal Bertone talks about the third secret of Fatima
- Catholic News Agency, Pope in Fatima, Vatican
- May 13, 2017
The “third secret of Fatima” refers to a message during the apparitions predicting suffering and persecution of the Pope and the Church. Unlike the first two secrets – a vision of hell and a prediction of World War II – the third secret was not initially revealed by Sister Lucia, one of the three children Mary visited in 1917.
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Trump nominee wrote on Catholic judges and the death penalty
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US, Pope/Trump
- May 12, 2017
President Donald Trump selected Catholic law professor at Notre Dame, Amy Coney Barrett, for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1998 Barrett wrote an article on the debated topic of the death penalty and the role of Catholic judges when deciding such cases.
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Fatima, the Marian Age, and the Devil’s Century

In the great slaughterhouse of the twentieth century, the sheer scale of lethal evil, organized above all in the communist regimes, appeared to have loosed Satan himself in the world. In this context, the apparitions of Fatima were addressed directly to the wickedness of the twentieth century, as well as to the wickedness of sin that lurks in all of history.

Meeting with pope was a ‘sharing among shepherds,’ Cuban bishop says

After an informal meeting with Pope Francis for the “ad limina” visits to the Vatican, a Cuban archbishop said that the audience “was a sharing among shepherds; a meeting of bishops.” He also described the different approaches in Cuba by the three latest pontiffs pointing to the pope’s popularity in the country.

No secret: Last three popes share close bond to Fatima

On the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, we look back on its very special relationship with the last three popes. St. John Paul II credited Mary his near-escape from death, Pope Benedict XVI was a “great devotee” and Pope Francis will visit the site this year in honor of the centennial.