PAPAL PLANE – Returning from Lisbon on Sunday, Pope Francis insisted that maintaining the Church's traditional teachings on ordination and marriage is not a sign of closed-mindedness. In an airborne news conference the pontiff also touched on his reasons for opting not to mention Ukraine out loud while in the famed Marian shrine of Fátima on Saturday, addressed clerical abuse scandals in Portugal, mental health struggles among young people and his own physical condition. He insisted that despite a grueling foreign trip this week, partly spent in a wheelchair, “my health is good.”
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Pope says maintaining Church teaching on ordination and marriage not a sign of closed-mindedness
papal plane – returning from lisbon on sunday, pope francis insisted that maintaining the church's traditional teachings on ordination and m...
Elise Ann Allen

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