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POPE DID NOT SAY THERE IS NO HELL
The Vatican has denied that Pope Francis told a well-known Italian journalist that there is no hell ... READ MORE›
'HELL DOES NOT EXIST': NO, POPE FRANCIS DIDN'T SAY THAT, VATICAN SAYS
ET March 29, 2018 CLOSE The Vatican is pushing back on an interview in which Pope Francis was quoted saying hell doesnt exist. Nathan Rousseau Smith explains... READ MORE›
MEET THE IRISH FAMILIES SELECTED TO PRESENT POPE FRANCIS WITH AN ICON AHEAD OF HIS IRISH VISIT
TWO Irish families today presented Pope Francis with the official World Meeting of Families 2018 'Icon of the Holy Family'... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS APPROVES EL SALVADOR ARCHBISHOP OSCAR ROMERO SAINTHOOD
Pope Francis approves sainthood for Oscar Romero, the El Salvador archbishop gunned down during Mass in 1980... READ MORE›
STOP EXPLOITING NUNS FOR CHEAP LABOUR, VATICAN MAGAZINE URGES
Nuns too are being encouraged to speak up about gender inequality... READ MORE›
DEMAND FOR EXORCISMS IS UP THREEFOLD IN ITALY, SO VATICAN IS HOLDING CONFERENCE
One of the organizers of the Sicily gathering, Friar Beningo Palilla, told Vatican Radio there are some 500,000 cases requiring exorcism in Italy each year... READ MORE›
RETIRED POPE BENEDICT 'ON A PILGRIMAGE HOME'
Sunday will mark five years since the pope stunned the world with his resignation... READ MORE›
POPE'S ADVISERS SAY HE GOT ABUSE VICTIM'S LETTER, DESPITE DENIAL
During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as slander, seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes... READ MORE›
AP EXCLUSIVE: DESPITE DENIAL, POPE GOT ABUSE VICTIMS LETTER
During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as slander, seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes... READ MORE›
CALL FOR POPE FRANCIS TO MEET ABUSE SURVIVOR MARIE COLLINS DURING VISIT TO IRELAND
He said Mrs Collins, who was abused by a Dublin priest in the 1960s, had only received a handshake from the Pope... READ MORE›
POPE SENDS SEX ABUSE INVESTIGATOR TO CHILE
The Pope has been criticised since Bishop Barros was announced bishop of Osorno, in south-central Chile, in 2015 despite stiff opposition... READ MORE›
POPE SENDS SEX CRIMES EXPERT TO CHILE TO INVESTIGATE BISHOP AFTER DRAWING PROTESTS ON RECENT VISIT
The Barros controversy dominated Francis' just-ended trip to Chile and Peru and exposed his blind spot about clerical abuse... READ MORE›
POPE PARTIALLY APOLOGIZES TO CHILEAN ABUSE VICTIMS, BUT STILL BACKS CONTROVERSIAL BISHOP
Juan Carlos Cruz, a high-profile Barros accuser, later took to Twitter to voice his outrage over the pope's remarks... READ MORE›
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A VATICAN SHOT ACROSS THE BOW FOR HARD-LINE U.S. CATHOLICS
American Catholic conservatives once unacquainted with being out of papal favor have stewed privately and expressed horror publicly on numerous right-wing Catholic blogs... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ASSURES ATHEISTS: YOU DONT HAVE TO BELIEVE IN GOD TO GO TO HEAVEN
Pope francis assures atheists you don't have to believe in god to go to heaven... READ MORE›
STEVE BANNON CARRIES BATTLES TO ANOTHER INFLUENTIAL HUB
Mr. Bannon publicly articulated his worldview in remarks a few months after his meeting with Cardinal Burke, at a Vatican conference organized by Mr. Harnwell's institute... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS DECLARES EVOLUTION AND BIG BANG THEORY ARE REAL AND GOD IS NOT 'A MAGICIAN WITH A MAGIC WAND'
The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not a magician with a magic wand, Pope Francis has declared... READ MORE›
TRUDEAU ASKS POPE FRANCIS TO APOLOGISE FOR SCHOOLS
In 2008, former prime minister Stephen Harper issued an apology on behalf of Canadians, calling it a sad chapter in our history ... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS: CORRUPT SHOULD BE TIED TO A ROCK AND THROWN INTO THE SEA
Pope francis gives fire-and-brimstone sermon, saying the corrupt should be tied to a rock and thrown into the sea... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS PRESENTS TRUMP WITH A 'POLITICALLY LOADED GIFT'
Pope Francis presents Trump with a 'politically loaded gift' His encyclical on climate change... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCISS EDICT ON CLIMATE CHANGE WILL ANGER DENIERS AND US CHURCHES
Pope francis's edict on climate change will anger deniers and us churches... READ MORE›
KEEP THE FAITH IN OUR TRYING TIMES
The pope usually conducts an Urbu et Orbi blessing -- Latin for To the City and the World -- just after the Easter Mass... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS IN SWEEPING ENCYCLICAL CALLS FOR SWIFT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Governments are now developing domestic climate-change plans to prepare for a United Nations summit meeting on the issue in Paris in December... READ MORE›
BEFORE POPE FRANCIS MET KIM DAVIS HE MET WITH GAY EX-STUDENT
Earlier on Friday, the Vatican said that Archbishop Vigano had arranged the pope's meetings in Washington, including the one with Ms. Davis... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ALLOWS PRIESTS TO ABSOLVE 'GRAVE SIN' OF ABORTION
Post to Facebook Pope Francis allows priests to absolve 'grave sin' of abortion The pope also opposed the death penalty... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS EXTENDS PRIESTS ABILITY TO FORGIVE ABORTION
Pope Francis did not single out any country, but he has expressed dismay over the harsh tone on immigration that Mr. Trump has taken... READ MORE›
POPE: VATICAN BUREAUCRACY HAS 'SPIRITUAL ALZHEIMER'S'
That plagued his predecessor's Pope Francis arrives in the Paul VI hall on Monday for an audience with the Holy See's employees at the Vatican... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TO EXPLORE CLIMATES EFFECT ON WORLDS POOR
VATICAN CITY -- Ban Ki-moon arrived at the Vatican with his own college of cardinals... READ MORE›
CONSERVATIVE DISSENT IS BREWING INSIDE THE VATICAN
Rather than targeting the pope, conservative bishops and cardinals more often take aim at their liberal peers... READ MORE›
VATICAN FIRES GAY PRIEST ON EVE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS MEETING
Charamsa can no longer work at the Vatican or its pontifical universities, Lombardi said... READ MORE›
FRANCIS IN AMERICA A HUMBLE POPE CHALLENGING THE WORLD
Francis is not just trying to change the Roman Catholic Church... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SNUBS THE DALAI LAMA AT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE EVENT
Instead the South American pontiff will send a video message to the conference of Nobel Peace Prize winners... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SUGGESTS DONALD TRUMP IS NOT CHRISTIAN
Francis also took questions on a handful of other issues... READ MORE›
MY TRAVELS WITH POPE FRANCIS IN BOLIVIA
An estimated 1.5 million people are expected for Tuesday's Mass with Pope Francis in Quito, Ecuador... READ MORE›
THE POPE'S 'BLIND SPOT' ON SEXUAL ABUSE
Charges of sexual assault against one of the Pope's top advisers, Cardinal George Pell, highlights what one observer calls Francis' blind spot on sexual abuse... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS: CHRISTMAS 'HOSTAGE TO MATERIALISM'
During a high-security Christmas Mass at the Vatican, the head of the Roman Catholic Church also denounced the continuing suffering of children... READ MORE›
CAN POPE FRANCIS CLEAN UP GODS BANK?
Within weeks of taking office, Francis set about tackling the problem of the Vatican bank and the wider finances of the Holy See in three ways... READ MORE›
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL'S LEGAL BILLS WON'T BE PAID BY SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESE, ARCHBISHOP SAYS
The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says it will not pay its former archbishop Cardinal George Pell's legal costs... READ MORE›
MELANIA TRUMP IN BLACK AT THE VATICAN. WHY?
Melania Trump arrived at the Vatican on Wednesday morning the picture of modesty a knee-length black dress, arms covered and a black veil over her hair... READ MORE›
VATICAN IS SPLIT ON RULES FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE CATHOLIC CHURCH
They remained firmly shut to same-sex marriage even as the document said gay people should be treated with respect... READ MORE›
POPE SAYS CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOULD NOT DISMISS GAY MARRIAGE
Pope Francis has shown a softer more inclusive stance on core issues of concern to the Catholic Church since being elected Pope on March 13 last year... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS DENOUNCES GROWING 'DEMONIZATION' OF ENEMIES, OUTSIDERS
Three of the new cardinals are older than 80 and thus not eligible to vote in a conclave to elect Francis' successor... READ MORE›
POPE URGES CHANGES TO AVOID 'UNPRECEDENTED DAMAGE' FROM CLIMATE CHANGE IN LEAKED ENCYCLICAL DOCUMENT
Although the first ever encyclical on the environment concentrated heavily on the natural world, the pope repeatedly linked climate change with the plight of the poor... READ MORE›