8 h. ago The battle for the Catholic Church’s future will not be over doctrine

In choosing the next pope, disagreements will be over the Church’s ‘style’ — its way of being, culture and mindset

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3 d. ago Living Nostradamus says Pope Francis will be 'the last leader of Catholic church'

EXCLUSIVE: Athos Salomé, who is known as the 'Living Nostradamus', has released a series of bombshell predictions about the future of the Catholic church and Rome being hit by an earthquake

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4 d. ago Chances of next Pope being English as officials start to prepare for life after Pope Francis

With the death of Pope Francis confirmed earlier this week, attention has turned to the future of the Catholic church as some wonder who the next pontiff could be

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4 d. ago Nostradamus's prediction on Pope Francis death and Catholic Church's future

One of the astrologer's prophecies is being linked to the Pope's death yesterday.

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4 d. ago Returned to the house of the Father: After his final blessing on Easter Sunday, the frail Pope dies of a stroke. Now a battle for the Catholic Church's future begins

As the world united in mourning, manoeuvring began in Rome over the contest to shape the Church over the next decade and guide its billion-plus adherents.

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4 d. ago Nostradamus's eerie prediction of Pope Francis's death and future of Catholic Church

Pope Francis died of a stroke today and astrologers are claiming that Nostradamus made a prophecy nearly 500 years ago about his death - and the future of the Catholic Church

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on Pope Francis: an outsider who was a force for good in the world | Editorial

The Argentine pontiff was a vital progressive influence on issues such as migration, and fought for a more merciful, less rigid Catholic churchDefying doctors’ orders to rest following his battle with double pneumonia, a weak Pope Francis last week visited Rome’s Regina Coeli prison, where he blew kisses towards inmates and spent half an hour in discussion with some of those incarcerated. Sadly, this Maundy Thursday encounter turned out to be one of the last acts of a supremely hardworking papacy. In retrospect, its location was entirely appropriate.Throughout his 12 years in Saint Peter’s chair, Francis sought admirably to refocus the Catholic church’s energies on the marginalised, while challenging the power of entrenched interests. Coming, as he put it, “from the ends of the earth”, the first non-European pontiff of modern times was an outsider pope and a radical one. Within the church, the Argentine was a sometimes spikily direct reformer; outside it, he was a signific...

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4 d. ago Nostradamus' eerie Pope Francis prophecy as new seer got his death all wrong

The 16th-century French prophet made all kinds of chilling predictions, but one was an eerie warning about the future of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis and his successor

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4 d. ago Battle for the soul of the Catholic Church begins: Conservative and liberal factions vie to install their preferred Pope

The battle to succeed Pope Francis is one for the very soul of the Catholic Church and its over a billion followers around the world.

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