This year got off to a rocky start for a priest from the Diocese of Livorno, who on New Year’s Day was excommunicated for slandering Pope Francis during a homily the night before, referring to the pontiff as “an anti-pope usurper” and a mason.
INTERVIEW: One year after the death of the German Pope, his former spokesman takes a look back at his pontificate, which encompassed the publication of his tr.
The late German Pope, who was particularly fond of Christmas, once knocked on the doors of his entire community at midnight to express his joy at the miracle.