2013年3月17日星期日

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Argentina blends devotion and marketing with pope

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 03:21 PM PDT

Blanca Franco cries as she attends Mass in the Villa 21-24 slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Villa 21-24 is a slum so dangerous that most outsiders don't dare enter, but residents say Jorge Mario Bergoglio often showed up unannounced to share laughs and sips of mate, the traditional Argentine herbal tea shared by groups using a common straw. Bergoglio was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, and chose the name Francis. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — From slum chapels to Buenos Aires' imposing cathedral, Argentines celebrated their pope in Sunday Masses.

Argentina blends devotion and marketing over Pope

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 02:46 PM PDT

Blanca Franco cries as she attends Mass in the Villa 21-24 slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Villa 21-24 is a slum so dangerous that most outsiders don't dare enter, but residents say Jorge Mario Bergoglio often showed up unannounced to share laughs and sips of mate, the traditional Argentine herbal tea shared by groups using a common straw. Bergoglio was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, and chose the name Francis. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — From slum chapels to Buenos Aires' imposing cathedral, Argentines celebrated their pope in Sunday Masses.

Pope wades up to a delighted crowd before making 1st window appearance in St. Peter's Square

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:42 PM PDT

VATICAN CITY - Walking up to crowds, shaking hands with surprised bystanders in the street, mixing his formal speeches with off-the-cuff remarks, Pope Francis stamped his own style on the papacy Sunday.

Pope wades into crowds, surprising onlookers

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 01:33 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis greets faithful from a side gate of the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Pope Francis began his first Sunday as pontiff by making an impromptu appearance to the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passersby and prompting cheers, then kept up his simple, spontaneous style by delivering a brief, off-the-cuff homily at the Vatican's tiny parish church. Dressed only in white cassock, Francis waved to the crowd in the street outside St. Anna's Gate and before entering the church, which serves Vatican City State's hundreds of residents, he shook hands of the parishioners and kissed babies. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Walking up to crowds, shaking hands with surprised bystanders in the street, mixing his formal speeches with off-the-cuff remarks, Pope Francis stamped his own style on the papacy Sunday.

Zimbabwe's Mugabe travels to Vatican for papal inauguration

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:29 AM PDT

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's long-ruling President Robert Mugabe will attend the inauguration of Pope Francis in Rome this week, his spokesman said on Sunday. The 89-year-old, who is a conservative Catholic, has been subject to a European Union travel ban since 2002 following allegations of election rigging and human rights abuses. However, he is able to travel to the Vatican, which is technically a state within a state and not part of the EU, although any visitor must pass through Italian territory. ...

Pope wades into crowds, shocks bystanders in Rome

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 11:06 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis greets faithful from a side gate of the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Pope Francis began his first Sunday as pontiff by making an impromptu appearance to the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passersby and prompting cheers, then kept up his simple, spontaneous style by delivering a brief, off-the-cuff homily at the Vatican's tiny parish church. Dressed only in white cassock, Francis waved to the crowd in the street outside St. Anna's Gate and before entering the church, which serves Vatican City State's hundreds of residents, he shook hands of the parishioners and kissed babies. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Walking up to crowds, shaking hands with surprised bystanders in the street, mixing his formal speeches with off-the-cuff remarks, Pope Francis stamped his own style on the papacy Sunday.

Show mercy, don't rush to condemn, new pope urges

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 10:59 AM PDT

Newly elected Pope Francis appears at the window of his future private apartment to bless faithful during Angelus prayer at VaticanBy Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, speaking to an overflow crowd of more than 150,000 in St Peter's Square, urged the world on Sunday to be more forgiving and merciful and not so quick to condemn other people's failures. "A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just," he told the cheering crowd from the window of the papal apartments overlooking the square. ...

Pope tests his security detail by wading into crowd

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 09:30 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis gave his security detail a taste of his new papal style on Sunday by stepping outside a Vatican gate to greet a boisterous crowd of well-wishers. The pope said Sunday morning Mass in the small church of Santa Anna, just a few feet inside the gate of the same name, for Vatican workers who frequent it as their parish. He arrived in a black car, again shunning the papal limousine, and immediately went over to hundreds of people who had gathered at the gate to get a glimpse of him. ...

Don't Look Now but the Pope Is Tweeting Again

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:43 AM PDT

Your social media mess is blessed again. Amid a tour of firsts, the newly installed Pope Francis has finally fired up the Pontifex Twitter account since it was scrubbed and reset after Benedict stepped down. 

Pope Francis connects with crowd after first window appearance

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:28 AM PDT

Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy.

Pope wades into crowd before 1st window appearance

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 06:19 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis greets faithful from a side gate of the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. Pope Francis began his first Sunday as pontiff by making an impromptu appearance to the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passersby and prompting cheers, then kept up his simple, spontaneous style by delivering a brief, off-the-cuff homily at the Vatican's tiny parish church. Dressed only in white cassock, Francis waved to the crowd in the street outside St. Anna's Gate and before entering the church, which serves Vatican City State's hundreds of residents, he shook hands of the parishioners and kissed babies. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy.

Pope makes 1st window appearance to huge crowd in St. Peter's Square, off-the-cuff speech

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 05:29 AM PDT

VATICAN CITY - Breaking with tradition, Pope Francis delivered off-the-cuff remarks about God's power to forgive instead of reading from a written speech for the first Sunday window appearance of his papacy.

St. Peter's Square springs to life with new pope

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 04:32 AM PDT

A band plays in St. Peter's Square as they wait for the Angelus prayer with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — You don't need to be Catholic to be awe-struck by the majesty of St. Peter's Square, which becomes the stage for the world during times of papal transition.

Pope Francis making his first speech from studio window on St. Peter's Square.

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 04:05 AM PDT

Pope Francis making his first speech from studio window on St. Peter's Square.

Pope makes impromptu appearance near Vatican

Posted: 17 Mar 2013 04:01 AM PDT

A visitor waves an Argentine flag before the Angelus prayer by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis began his first Sunday as pontiff by making an impromptu appearance to the public from a side gate of the Vatican, startling passersby and prompting cheers, then kept up his simple, spontaneous style by delivering a brief, off-the-cuff homily at the Vatican's tiny parish church.

In Twitter era, new pope not a social media maven

Posted: 16 Mar 2013 03:05 PM PDT

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with the media at the Pope VI hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, March 16, 2013. Pope Francis offered intimate insights Saturday into the moments after his papal election, telling an audience with the press that he was immediately inspired to take the name of St. Francis of Assisi because of his work for peace and the poor, and was embraced by another cardinal amid applause inside the conclave. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Pope Francis has 1.2 billion followers in the Roman Catholic Church, but he's not following a single one of them on Facebook or Twitter.

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