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Pope Francis is looking for a few good men. and maybe some women The 84-year-old pope is about to unveil the final plan for revamping the Roman Curia, but he ll need to appoint top-notch people if the reform is to be successfully implemented
Cardinals wait for the arrival of Pope Francis on the occasion of his Christmas greeting to the Roman Curia, in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican, 21 December 2019. (Photo EPA/ANDREW MEDICHINI /POOL/MaxPPP)
Pope Francis recently accepted the resignation of Cardinal Robert Sarah as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments.
There should have been nothing particularly controversial about the news. The cardinal had already turned 75 last June, the age when all bishops are expected to submit their resignation to the pope.
By Hannah Brockhaus
Pope Francis has praised the courageous witness of the 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians killed by ISIS in 2015, calling them “saints of all Christians.”
In a video message for the “Day of Contemporary Martyrs” Feb. 15, the pope said, “I hold in my heart that baptism of blood, those twenty-one men baptized as Christians with water and the Spirit.”
“I thank God our Father because he gave us these courageous brothers. I thank the Holy Spirit because he gave them the strength and consistency to confess Jesus Christ to the point of shedding blood. I thank the bishops, the priests of the Coptic sister Church which raised them and taught them to grow in the faith. And I thank the mothers of these people, of these 21 men, who ‘nursed’ them in the faith,” he said.