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Pope Francis has met with Israel's president and given him a medallion that reads: "Look for what unites, overcome that which divides." President Reuven Rivlin met with the...
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Pope Francis is expected to raise issues ranging from climate change to income inequality when he visits Cuba and the United States Sept. 19-27.
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Pope Francis is marking a day he has dedicated to praising and protecting nature's marvels.
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Eight minutes of silence instead of a homily have marked the Vatican funeral of a former papal diplomat, whose trial on charges of possession of child pornography and sexual...
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Pope Francis is urging people to work together to stop crimes against migrants, including the 71 who perished in a smuggler's truck on the main Budapest-Vienna highway.
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The Vatican says an autopsy has determined that its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who went on trial at the Holy See this summer for alleged sexual abuse of...
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The Vatican says its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who has been charged by church prosecutors with sexually abusing children in the Caribbean country, has died...
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Pope Francis, who encourages prelates to get closer to rank-and-file Catholics, has practiced what he preaches, taking a place among surprised faithful in the pews in St....
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Pope Francis is denouncing a global labor market that is interested only in profit and warning that unemployment causes enormous damage to society and families.
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Pope Francis has taken a cue from Orthodox Christians and designated Sept. 1 as a day for Catholics to pray for the care of the environment.
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Pope Francis says the detonation of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70 years ago remains "a permanent warning to humanity" to reject war and ban weapons of mass...
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Pope Francis says when he wanted to know the secret of being joyful he asked a "tiny granny with shining eyes" and got an unexpected answer: homemade ravioli.
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Pope Francis says divorced Catholics who remarry and their children deserve better treatment from the Catholic church.
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Mayors emboldened by an appeal from Pope Francis are committing themselves to a new set of U.N.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio denounced the European Union on Tuesday for leaving Italy to deal with waves of immigration, saying the EU must come up with a Europe-wide...