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According to Italian press, less than 24 hours after the pope’s arrival, the police discovered a Czech-made semiautomatic pistol inside a suitcase.
The apparitions took place in Montichiari and Fontanelle, Italy, located in the country’s northern province of Brescia in 1947 and 1966.
The Vatican Press Office reported that during a closed-door meeting, the pope returned to the topic of the admission of men “with homosexual tendencies to seminaries.”
Pope Francis had a full slate of events Sunday during his day trip to Venice, Italy, a trip that tied together a message of unity and fraternity.
Two Catholic priests killed by Nazis while ministering to the dying amid the Boves massacre were beatified as martyrs on Sunday in northern Italy.
Pope Francis traveled to the ancient Italian city of Matera, where he urged thousands of people gathered in a soccer stadium for Sunday Mass to "rediscover" Eucharistic adoration.
Pope Francis gave the bishops a card with a meditation called ‘The Beatitudes of the Bishop.’
Last month three men were ordained to the priesthood in a small city in southern Italy. Among them was Fr. Jerome Pascal Ombeni, a young man from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).