Cette raison bien précise pour laquelle la reine Camilla était habillée en noir lors de sa rencontre avec le pape

MADAME FIGARO : En déplacement au Vatican, la reine Camilla et le roi Charles III ont été reçus par le pape Léon XIV. Vêtue de noir, la reine consort n’a pas profité du «privilège du blanc», accordée aux souveraines catholiques.

En robe de soie noire Fiona Clare et mantille Philip Treacy, la reine Camilla a rencontré le pape Léon XIV au Vatican, ce jeudi 23 octobre. Un look qui a suscité de nombreux commentaires sur les réseaux sociaux : entre Halloween avant l’heure, tenue tout droit sortie d’un film d’horreur ou encore digne de funérailles, les internautes s’en sont donné à cœur joie.

Mais pourquoi la reine était-elle habillée tout en noir ? La raison est strictement protocolaire. Le Vatican recommande en effet que les femmes portent des manches longues, une tenue noire formelle et un voile noir lors des audiences papales. Seule la mantille choisie par la souveraine était une déclaration de style, un hommage à la reine Elizabeth II lors des visites papales qu’elle a effectuées de son vivant. » | Par Louise Ginies | vendredi 24 octobre 2025

Serving the Pope with Your Life — What It's Like to Be a Swiss Guard

Oct 18, 2025 | Dario is 25, Swiss, and has just sworn to protect the Pope — even if it costs him his life.

In this rare behind-the-scenes look, we follow him through Vatican City, past tourists and tradition, and into the inner workings of one of the world's oldest military units.

From colorful uniforms to silent guards, from ancient rituals to modern challenges — this is the story of one man's mission at the center of the Catholic Church.

What’s life really like inside the Vatican? What are the duties of the Pope’s mysterious army? And what drives young men like Dario to take this sacred oath?


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King Charles Becomes First Head of Church of England to Pray with Pope | BBC News

Oct 23, 2025 | King Charles has become the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with the Pope.

The King and Queen Camilla met Pope Leo for the first time, before sharing a service in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.

Prior to the service, the King and Queen had a private audience with the Pope, where they exchanged gifts.

King Charles to Pray with Pope on Vatican State Visit in Historic Moment | BBC News

Oct 22, 2025 | King Charles and Pope Leo are to become the first British monarch and pontiff to pray together at a church service since the Reformation in the 16th Century.

This historic moment will be in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, during Thursday’s state visit by King Charles and Queen Camilla.

The service will bring together clergy and choirs from both the Roman Catholic church and the Church of England, of which the King is supreme governor.

The visit will be seen as an important symbol of reconciliation, in a trip that will also see the first meeting between the King and the new US-born Pope.

The Pope's Mysterious Army | DW Documentary | Reupload

Apr 18, 2025 | It’s the smallest and most mysterious army in the world: the Pontifical Swiss Guard. The film accompanies these men of faith and combat, from their recruitment in Switzerland to their military training in the heart of the Vatican.

Made up of 150 men, this élite corps lives in barracks in the heart of Vatican City. All must be Swiss nationals and devout Catholics. All have sworn to fight to the death to protect their faith and the Holy Father.

They are heirs to a 500-year-old tradition in which the Pope’s protection and security were assured by mercenaries from Switzerland.

Trained to wield both halberds and semi-automatic assault rifles, the Swiss Guards form a unique army. But who are they really? What motivates these young boys to join this military and religious corps? An insight into a world usually closed to the cameras.

Vatican : un homme interpellé après avoir uriné sur l’autel de la basilique Saint-Pierre

LE FIGARO : L’individu avait franchi les barrières de sécurité et baissé son pantalon pour profaner l’autel de la basilique, devant le célèbre baldaquin, sous les yeux de nombreux fidèles. Il a été interpellé par les gendarmes en civil qui surveillent le célèbre monument.

Un homme a été interpellé vendredi 10 octobre au Vatican, alors qu’il urinait sur l’autel de la basilique Saint-Pierre, a confirmé le Corriere Della Serra après que des images de l’incident ont circulé sur les réseaux sociaux. L’individu s’est approché de l’autel en franchissant les barrières de sécurité qui en interdisent l’accès, et a baissé son pantalon sous les yeux de fidèles médusés avant de profaner l’autel, devant le célèbre baldaquin baroque. » | Par P.S. | samedi 11 octobre 2025

«Nous ne devons pas baisser la garde face à la pauvreté»: avec «Dilexi te», le pape Léon XIV reprend un thème cher à son prédécesseur

LE FIGARO : DÉCRYPTAGE - Le pape, élu le 8 mai dernier, publie une «exhortation apostolique» sur «l’option préférentielle pour les pauvres» que le pape François avait en partie rédigée avant sa mort.

«Je t’ai aimé» est le titre du premier grand document officiel du pape Léon XIV, publié ce jeudi 9 octobre, sous la forme d’une «exhortation apostolique», «Dilexi te», son nom officiel latin. Ces 140 pages sont éditées en France par le collectif d’éditeurs Bayard-Editions-Mame-Les Éditions du Cerf. À la différence d’une «lettre encyclique» plus intellectuelle, une «exhortation apostolique» s’adresse aux fidèles pour les encourager à agir concrètement. En l’occurrence pour aider les «pauvres» qui sont au cœur de ce texte essentiellement écrit par le pape François, assumé par son successeur, qui vise à justifier «l’option préférentielle pour les pauvres» comme l’une des grandes priorités de l’Église catholique.

Que signifie cette «option préférentielle de Dieu pour les pauvres» ? C’est un axe pastoral et théologique préparé par le Concile Vatican II, né dans les années 70 en Amérique latine et pivot du pontificat de François. Cette «option» n’est pas une «exclusion» ou une «discrimination» prévient l’exhortation, ce qui serait «impossible en Dieu» mais «Dieu est pris de compassion pour la pauvreté et la faiblesse de l’humanité» et il a «particulièrement à cœur ceux qui sont discriminés et opprimés». Dieu qui demanderait «à son Église, un choix décisif et radical en faveur des plus faibles» afin d’«inaugurer un Règne de justice, de fraternité et de solidarité». Quant à la pauvreté, elle peut être «matérielle» mais aussi «sociale», «morale et spirituelle», «culturelle». » | Par Jean-Marie Guénois | jeudi 9 octobre 2025

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Pope Francis Diagnosed with Kidney Issues, Remains Alert, Vatican Says

Feb 23, 2025 | Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday, the Vatican said. Blood tests show ‘initial, slight insufficiency’ in his kidney function, but the 88-year-old pontiff remains alert and 'well oriented' and attended mass, the Vatican said.

Le pape souffre d'une pneumonie bilatérale, son tableau clinique est toujours «complexe», selon le Vatican

LE FIGARO : Le pape est hospitalisé depuis vendredi à l’hôpital Gemelli de Rome, initialement pour une bronchite, et ses engagements ont été annulés jusqu’à ce week-end.

Le pape François, 88 ans, souffre d’une pneumonie bilatérale et continue d’afficher un tableau clinique «complexe», a annoncé mardi le Vatican au cinquième jour de son hospitalisation. Le jésuite de 88 ans est hospitalisé depuis vendredi à l’hôpital Gemelli de Rome pour une «infection polymicrobienne des voies respiratoires», une nouvelle alerte qui suscite l’inquiétude autour de sa santé déclinante. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | mardi 18 février 2025

Trump Deportation Threat Puts US on Collision Course with Vatican

THE GUARDIAN: Pope’s appointment of progressive Robert McElroy comes as rightwing Catholics wield notable influence in US capital

When the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, sought to shut down a Catholic charity that was was providing shelter and aid to undocumented migrants at the border, the San Diego cardinal, Robert McElroy, took a robust public stand against the attempt.

“The state of Texas is using governmental pressure to curtail the work of the church in one of its most fundamental obligations: to feed the hungry, to shelter the homeless, and to provide drink to the thirsty,” McElroy said in a statement at the time. “No government can morally tell us to abandon or limit this mission.”

Last week, as billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg adopted policies that seemed designed to ingratiate themselves with the incoming Trump administration, Pope Francis took a different tack when he tapped the Harvard and Stanford-educated McElroy to the role of archbishop of Washington DC – one of the most high-profile positions in the US Catholic church. » | Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington | Monday, January 13, 2025

«The Majority of the Vatican Priests Are Gay» | Sternstunde Religion | SRF Kultur | 2020 | Reupload

Mar 31, 2020 | It is well-known that the Vatican frowns upon men who love men. But that the centre of power of the Roman Catholic Church should at the same time be one of the largest gay communities worldwide was new to many when Frédéric Martel brought this thesis to the world in 2019.

After having published "In the Closet of the Vatican" simultaneously in eight languages, the French author and journalist was invited to countless talk shows, but the Vatican was shrouded in silence.

Whoever felt somehow different - just homosexual - as a young man in the 30s, 40s and 50s of the last century, found an oasis in the Roman Catholic Church, according to Martel. Men living among men, wearing different clothes and singing in a choir, that would have been the salvation for many, which was also accepted by society.

While most of the men Martel spoke to are very old, their world view remains: Homophobic on the outside, homophile on the inside. This led to a dangerous double standard, a culture of silence, which had very unhappily promoted the scandals around the Catholic Church.


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Vatican Allows Italian Gay Men to Train to Be Priests, if They Remain Celibate

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Candidates for the seminary should not be disqualified based on sexual orientation, according to new church guidelines in Italy.

The Vatican has approved new guidelines for Italy that say that an applicant for the seminary cannot be rejected simply because he is gay, as long as he remains celibate.

The guidelines say that seminary directors should consider sexual orientation as only one aspect of a candidate’s personality.

They do not change the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching that “homosexual tendencies” are “intrinsically disordered,” and that men with “deep-seated” gay tendencies should not become priests. But they clarify that if a candidate remains chaste, his sexual orientation should not disqualify him from entering the priesthood.

The Catholic church has struggled for years with the contradiction that the priesthood has long been a refuge for gay men, while church teaching rejects same-sex relations. » | Elisabetta Povoledo | Friday, January 10, 2025

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Vatican Sent Italian Children Born Out of Wedlock to America as Orphans; New Book Uncovers Program

Oct 14, 2024 | For decades, unwed mothers in Italy were pressured to give up children born out of wedlock. Thousands were sent to America. Now some families are reuniting and looking for answers.

Slur by Francis Lays Bare the Church’s Contradictions on Homosexuality

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The pope used homophobic slang and cautioned prelates about admitting gay men into seminaries. But ordination has also long been a refuge for gay faithful.

When reports spread that Pope Francis had used an offensive anti-gay slur while speaking to Italian bishops at a conference last month, many Catholics were both shocked and baffled. How could a pope known for his openness to and acceptance of L.G.B.T.Q. people use homophobic slang and caution prelates about admitting gay men into seminaries?

But the question, and the apparent inconsistency in Francis’ messaging, reflect the deep contradictions and tensions that underlie the Roman Catholic Church’s and Francis’ relationship to homosexuality.

The church holds that “homosexual tendencies” are “intrinsically disordered.” When it comes to ordination, the church’s guidelines state that people with “deep-seated” gay tendencies should not become priests.

Yet ordination has also long been a refuge of sorts for homosexual Catholic men, according to researchers and priests, who say that at least thousands of clergymen are gay, though only a few are public about their sexual orientation because of the stigma it still carries in the church. » | Emma Bubola and Elisabetta Povoledo, Reporting from Rome | Saturday, June 22, 2024

Priests in the Closet

Nov 25, 2019 | Frédéric Martel is dragging them out—and calling out hypocrisy. | Frédéric Martel is being interviewed by David Marr.

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«The Majority of the Vatican Priests Are Gay» | Sternstunde Religion | SRF Kultur | Reupload

Mar 31, 2020 | It is well known that the Vatican frowns upon men who love men. But that the centre of power of the Roman Catholic Church should at the same time be one of the largest gay communities worldwide was new to many when Frédéric Martel brought this thesis to the world in 2019.

After having published "In the Closet of the Vatican" simultaneously in eight languages, the French author and journalist was invited to countless talk shows, but the Vatican was shrouded in silence.

Whoever felt somehow different - just homosexual - as a young man in the 30s, 40s and 50s of the last century, found an oasis in the Roman Catholic Church, according to Martel. Men living among men, wearing different clothes and singing in a choir, that would have been the salvation for many, which was also accepted by society.

While most of the men Martel spoke to are very old, their world view remains: Homophobic on the outside, homophile on the inside. This led to a dangerous double standard, a culture of silence, which had very unhappily promoted the scandals around the Catholic Church.

Sternstunde Religion vom 29.3.2020


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Bénédiction des couples homosexuels : « Si ce changement est bienvenu, cela ne rassurera pas les catholiques qui se voient sans cesse rappelés à leur état de péché »

LE MONDE – TRIBUNE : Plusieurs militants d’associations chrétiennes de défense des droits des personnes homosexuelles saluent, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’autorisation par le Vatican des bénédictions des couples homosexuels, tout en s’inquiétant de la manière dont le clergé s’en saisira, faute d’avancées sur la doctrine. » | jeudi 28 décembre 2023 [€]

Pope Francis Approves Blessings for Same-sex Couples — If the Rituals Don’t Resemble Marriage

NEW YORK POST: ROME — Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and mercy shouldn’t be subject to “an exhaustive moral analysis” to receive it.

The document from the Vatican’s doctrine office, released Monday, elaborates on a letter Francis sent to two conservative cardinals that was published in October.

In that preliminary response, Francis suggested such blessings could be offered under some circumstances if they didn’t confuse the ritual with the sacrament of marriage.

The new document repeats that rationale and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong sacrament between a man and a woman.

And it stresses that blessings should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union, using set rituals or even with the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding. » | Associated Press | December 18, 2023

Vatican gives conditional approval to blessings for same-sex couples: Landmark ruling approved by Pope Francis would be a sign that God welcomes all, says Vatican »