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14 centrespread centrespread 15 JULY 03-09, 2016 JULY 03-09, 2016 The Pope-star Infl uential Popes in History Abortion The pope opened a special, temporary “mercy” window to make it easier Pope Francis for women who had abortions and was named Time confess to get back into the good magazine's Person graces of the Church. Technically, of the Year in abortion is a “mortal sin” in 2013 — after the Church, and a priest hearing nine months of his papacy. He confession would need to be was also on THE vested with authority from his Rolling Stone bishop to grant forgiveness. Pope magazine’s Francis’s call for mercy marked a cover in Pope Julius II, change in tone 2014 1503-13 Pope Innocent III, Pope Pius XII, PONTIFF’S Born in a humble 1198-1216 1939-58 Pope Francis is known to be He has an 11-track rock album. family in 1443, It was under Pope Despite the quite upfront when expressing Salvation of Atheists Wake Up! that features excerpts of Pope Julius II has gone Innocent that the complaints of his speeches in Spanish, Portuguese down in history as the In May 2013, Pope Francis reminded rules for the election some in the Anti- his views, and many of his and Italian, accompanied by rock warrior pope, a man of the Holy Roman Defamation League LIST the faithful that even those who do not instrumentation who led his armies into statements have sparked mixed reactions. He has broken believe in God can ascend to heaven Emperor were of an imagined battle dressed in full if they lead good and honorable lives. formalised, rules collaboration with new ground during his papacy in a range of areas, suggesting armour, and who was He called efforts to convert people to that were largely Hitler, Pope Pius XII satirised by Erasmus a more open approach to homosexuals, advocating a Christianity "solemn nonsense". "The used until the empire condemned Fascism as the pontiff whom stronger role for women in the Church, rebalancing the Lord has redeemed all of us, all of disintegrated under with force, often at St Peter balked at Napoleon Bonaparte's great risk to himself us, with the Blood of Christ, all of us, College of Cardinals to increase the weight of the emerging admitting to paradise. rampage in the 19th and the Church not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, When the grandiose century. Innocent throughout Europe. world. Recently, the leader of the Catholic Church said that the atheists?' Even the atheists. funerary monument III was also the last It is alleged that Everyone!" Pope Francis stated Christians owe LGBT people an apology for past mistreatment or planned for him by pope to successfully he used the papal neglect, and suggested apologies are probably in order to other Michelangelo came to assert the rights of retreat at Castel Climate Change nothing, Julius was the Church in England Gandolfo as a hiding constituencies as well, including the poor, exploited women and buried simply beneath against the English place for Jews divorced families. The suggestion for a mea culpa came from German At the UN last year, the pope the pavement of Crown with nearly during the German St Peter's Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who recently said that both the Church and effectively called pollution complete success occupation of Italy a sin and cited a moral the society have treated gays poorly and that the Church should obligation for a binding apologise. ET Magazine highlights some of the rather liberal In 2015, the pope celebrated the international agreement to Holy Thursday Mass of the Last The Scandal-ridden Pontiffs views — at least when compared with those of his combat global warming. His Supper at the Rebibbia prison predecessors — of the pontiff: public stance jarred some in Rome, where he washed and conservatives and climate- :: Joyshree Baruah kissed the change sceptics feet of 12 inmates, men, women and even a Gay and Civil Weapons toddler Unions Pope Francis issued his toughest condemnation He ditched the “If someone is gay bulletproof Popemobile and and he searches of the weapons industry for the Lord and instead he chose his 20-year-old when he said that the Vatican Renault to travel around the Vatican. Pope Steven VI, Pope Benedict IX, Pope Innocent IV, has good will, who people who manufacture Economic Inequality He auctioned his 2013 Dyna 896-897 1012-45 1243-54 am I to judge?” Bureaucracy weapons or invest in Pope Francis criticised the Super Glide Harley-Davidson Fuelled by anger, Pope Benedict IX is The Inquisition Pope Francis said in an In a pre-Christmas speech made “cult of money” driving the motorcycle for $3,27,000, and interview. Even though weapons industries are in December 2014, Pope Francis Pope Steven VI dug the only pope to ever represents the darkest world fi nancial system. He donated the funds for the homeless up his predecessor sell his papacy. He of Roman Church the Church considers hypocrites if they call sharply criticised the Vatican slammed consumer culture, in Rome homosexuality a sin, the bureaucracy, complaining of Pope Formosus’s is also the fi rst pope history, and it was themselves Christian. corporate greed and the corpse and propped said to have been Pope Innocent IV fact that the pope made "Duplicity is the "spiritual Alzheimer's" and "the notion of trickle-down He is multilingual, speaks such comments — and terrorism of gossip". He said it up to sit trial primarily homosexual. who approved the currency of today... economics. “Today we also Spanish, Latin and Italian in the made-up In 1045, Pope use of torture to used the word “gay” the Curia — the administrative have to say ‘thou shalt not’ to fl uently and understands — was nevertheless they say one thing and pinnacle of the Roman Catholic “Cadaver Synod”. Benedict IX resigned extract confessions of an economy of exclusion and German, French, Portuguese, Formosus’ body was the papacy in order to heresy. He applied the revolutionary, and likely do another," the pope Church — was suffering inequality. Such an economy English and Ukrainian to generate signifi cant from 15 "ailments", which found guilty and marry and sold it to principle that “the end said. His comments, kills. How can it be that it stripped of its papal his godfather. He justifi es the means”. discussions, at a time however, outraged many he wanted cured in the is not a news item when an He worked as a bouncer in a when bishops are New Year. He also vestments, dressed later tried to come The Church condemned Christians who defended elderly homeless person dies Buenos Aires bar to earn money in layman’s clothes back to Rome and Galileo for claiming divided over whether to demanded reform of exposure, but it is news as a student. Some even compared accept priests who are their ownership of guns of the Curia and tossed into the claim he was still that the earth revolved when the stock market loses the pope to St Peter, who served as river Tiber the pope around the sun gay but celibate two points?” the pope said the “bouncer” to the Gates of Heaven SUNEESH K Source: nytimes.com, theguardian.com, washingtonpost.com, wsj.com.