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by bcadmin | Sep 27, 2022 | lead, News, Swiss Guard, Switzerland, Vatican | 0 |
A Swiss canton held a referendum on whether to make a financial contribution to the renovation of the new barracks for the Swiss Guard, the world’s smallest army, at the Vatican, with around 71.5 percent voting in opposition to the funding.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 2, 2022 | lead, Military, News, Pope Francis, Swiss Guard, Vatican | 0 |
The world’s smallest army, which in recent years has faced difficulty in filling all its slots for new recruits, has created a new media relations position in a bid to yield better publicity and attract fresh members.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Pope Francis, Swiss Guard, Vatican | 0 |
Meeting new recruits to the Swiss Guard, Pope Francis thanked the young men for their diligent and important work serving the successor of St. Peter every single day.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 4, 2021 | COVID-19, Featured, News, Pontifical Swiss Guard, Swiss Guard, U.S. & World News, vaccine mandate | 0 |
Three members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard have hung up their halberds rather than be vaccinated against COVID-19, and three others were temporarily suspended in early October as they were completing the vaccination cycle, the spokesman for the guards told a Swiss newspaper.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Swiss Guard, Vatican | 0 |
Meeting new recruits to the Swiss Guard, Pope Francis thanked the young men for having chosen to serve the successor of St. Peter and he thanked all the guards for their diligence and service.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2021 | Associated Press, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Murder, News, Swiss Guard, Swiss Guards, Vatican, Vatican City State | 0 |
The Vatican secretary of state has intervened personally to shed light on one of the most sensational Vatican scandals of recent times: The 1998 murder of the Swiss Guard commander and his wife, purportedly by a disgruntled younger Swiss Guardsman who then took his own life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2020 | Associated Press, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, second, Swiss Guard, Swiss Guards, Vatican | 0 |
Four Swiss Guards have tested positive for coronavirus and were showing symptoms, the Vatican said Monday, as the surge in infections in surrounding Italy penetrates the Vatican walls.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2020 | Feature3, News, Philippines, Swiss Guard, Vatican | 0 |
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 2, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, News, Pope Francis, Swiss Guard, Swiss Guards, Vatican | 0 |
Meeting new recruits to the Swiss Guard, Pope Francis assured them that God always stands by their side, offering them comfort and consolation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2020 | Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, Campo Teutonico, Catholic Church, COVID-19, lead, News, Pope Francis, Swiss Guard, Vatican | 0 |
Despite a delay in the formal swearing in of new members due to the coronavirus, the Pontifical Swiss Guard Wednesday still honored fallen comrades with a private ceremony held digitally for the first time.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 18, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic University of America, Coronavirus, COVID-19, News, quarantine, Rome, Swiss Guard | 0 |
Looking on the “bright side” or seeking the “silver lining” of something like a lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is not naivete, but an exercise of one’s God-given will, said a U.S. professor locked down in Rome with his wife and son.
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