By JKNewsMedia Faiths NEWLY SELECTED Pope Leo XIV assumes office amid a turbulent legacy of financial scandals, opaque accounting, and stalled reforms at the heart of the Catholic Church. The American-born pontiff is reported to inherit not only spiritual leadership over 1.4 billion Catholics but also responsibility for stabilising the Vatica...
By Joke Kujenya BENEATH A vivid spring sky, an immense gathering of red-robed cardinals, world leaders, and faithful Catholics filled St Peter’s Square to mourn Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff whose enduring call for a humbler, more inclusive Church reshaped the Catholic world. Gregorian chants echoed solemnly through the air a...
By JKNewsMedia POPE FRANCIS died on Monday morning from a cerebral stroke and irreversible heart failure, hours after blessing pilgrims from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica. He was 88. The Vatican issued his death certificate shortly after announcing his passing. It confirmed that the pontiff fell into a coma following the stroke and succu...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE FIRST Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has died on Easter Monday aged 88 at his residence in the Vatican. This brings to an end his transformative and often turbulent 12-year papacy. His death was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who confirmed that the pontiff [...
