Pope Francis visits Italy’s ‘flying house’ to sign papal document
Loreto, Italy — Pope Francis signed a new document on young people during a visit on Monday to a site that some Catholics believe was the house of Jesus Christ’s mother, flown by angels from the Holy Land to Italy’s Adriatic coast. Francis travelled to the city of Loreto, site of one of Italy’s most visited religious shrines, where he said a Mass, comforted many sick people and signed a paper he has written on the role of young people in the Church. The document, known as an “apostolic exhortation”, is his assessment of a month-long synod of bishops at the Vatican in 2018. The document, now being translated from the original Spanish, is expected to tell young people that they should not be obsessed with doctrinal minutiae but blend the Church’s rules with social activism to help those in need. Vatican spokesperson Alessandro Gisotti said its title is “Christus Vivit” (Christ Lives) and that it will be published on April 2. According to popular tradition, the tiny house at Loreto was...
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