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ABUSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST CLERICS STILL RUNS HIGH UNDER POPE FRANCIS, BOOK CLAIMS
Francis has been credited by some with taking more decisive action on abuse cases than his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, did... READ MORE›
PALESTINIAN EMBASSY OPENS IN VATICAN CITY
Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Saturday to open a Palestinian embassy in Vatican City... READ MORE›
POPE MEETS PALESTINIAN LEADER IN THE VATICAN
After the papal meeting, Abbas formally inaugurated the new embassy across the street from one of the main gates of Vatican City... READ MORE›
MAHMOUD ABBAS: VATICAN EMBASSY A 'PLACE OF PRIDE'
Palestinian leader meets Pope Francis for the opening of Vatican-based embassy, a day before Paris peace conference... READ MORE›
TREE KNOCKED OVER BY STORMS IN FRANCE KILLS MOM IN FRONT OF HER CHILDREN
Strong winds in northern France cut power to some 190,000 homes as a storm surge sweeps Europe... READ MORE›
MCDONALDA??S NEXT TO VATICAN WILL GIVE AWAY FREE MEALS TO HOMELESS
Medicina Onlus says it is providing medical care to around 200 homeless around the Vatican each week... READ MORE›
FIGHTING OVER CONDOMS, THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA'S CHALLENGE POPE FRANCIS' AUTHORITY
Boeselager has said Festing -- in the presence of conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke -- indicated that the Holy See wanted him to quit... READ MORE›
ITALY ARRESTS SIBLINGS FOR HACKING INTO EMAILS OF ECB'S DRAGHI, FORMER ITALY PM RENZI
Italian police arrested two siblings on Tuesday for hacking the emails of European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S COLD SNAP DELIVERS A MIXTURE OF CHAOS AND FUN
-- Istanbul Turkey IstanbulTuRRkey January 9, 2017 Greece Refugees and migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday struggled with plunging temperatures and snow... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ADDRESSES ISTANBUL ATTACK IN NEW YEAR'S DAY SPEECH
Pope Francis, pictured during mass in Vatican City on Jan. 1, 2017, acknowledged the recent deadly attacks in Turkey... READ MORE›
CARDINAL BLASTS NEW MCDONALD'S NEAR VATICAN, CALLS IT 'DISGRACE'
The restaurant, at the corner of Borgo Pio and Via del Mascherino, is in the Roman district of Borgo, which leads to Vatican City... READ MORE›
CHINA OPEN TO VATICAN TALKS - BUT CATHOLICS MUST BE PATRIOTS
Worship is officially allowed only in state-authorised churches outside the Pope's authority, although many of China's estimated 12 million Catholics are thought to attend underground churches... READ MORE›
POPE URGES END TO SYRIA FIGHTING IN CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
At his Christmas eve Mass on Saturday, Francis said the feast had been taken hostage by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows... 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›
POPE FRANCIS BLASTS VATICAN RESISTANCE TO REFORM IN HIS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SPEECH
For the third year in a row, Francis took the Vatican bureaucracy to task in his annual Christmas greeting... READ MORE›
POPE DENOUNCES VATICAN RESISTANCE TO REFORM IN CHRISTMAS GREETING
Pope Francis has denounced the hidden resistance he is encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy... READ MORE›
POPE INVITES COLOMBIA PRESIDENT AND OPPONENT TO TALK PEACE
Pope Francis invited President Juan Manuel Santos and Mr Santos's right-wing predecessor in the presidency, Alvaro Uribe, to discuss the country's peace accord with rebels... READ MORE›
WHY PEOPLE ARE MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL ABOUT THE TRUMP-TAIWAN CALL
What you need to know about U.S.-China relations and the phone call between Trump and the Taiwanese president... READ MORE›
CASTRO AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - FROM PERSECUTION TO PRAISE
VATICAN CITY Baptized as a Roman Catholic and educated by Jesuits, Fidel Castro became a persecutor of the Church after seizing power in Cuba in 1959... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS EXTENDS PRIESTS ABILITY TO FORGIVE ABORTION
Pope Francis Extends Priestsa?? Ability to Forgive Abortion... 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 CLOSES DOOR ON 'YEAR OF MERCY' WITH A PLEA FOR COMPASSION AND A SENSE OF HUMOR
Over 100,000 pilgrims, including Queen Sofia of Spain and 1,500 homeless people, flocked to the Vatican in September for the canonization of Mother Teresa... 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 GIVES HOMELESS VIP SEATS FOR ST. PETER'S MASS, STRESSES INCLUSION
Along with cardinals and other prelates dressed in impeccably pressed, bright green vestments, homeless people sat near the ornate central altar... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS HOPES NEXT US PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS DO NOT INCREASE POVERTY & EXCLUSION
Pope Francis hopes next US president's actions do not increase poverty exclusion -- RT News... READ MORE›
POPE MAKES SUBTLE JAB AT TRUMP BEFORE ELECTION DAY
Getting in one more not-so-veiled dig at Republican Donald Trump before Tuesday's election, Pope Francis urged Americans to think about building bridges, not walls... READ MORE›
NO WOMEN'S ORDINATION, EVER: POPE
Francis said The last word was clear and was given by St. John Paul II and this remains... READ MORE›
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POPE FRANCIS ASSURES ATHEISTS: YOU DONA??T 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›
MOTHER TERESA IS MADE A SAINT BY POPE FRANCIS
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire and now the capital of Macedonia... 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??a magician with a magic wanda??, Pope Francis has declared... 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 FRANCISA??S 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›
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: 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 CONDEMNS 'MONEY CULT'
'Golden calf' Pope Francis said life had become worse for people in both rich and poor countries, the BBC's David Willey in Rome reports... 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›
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›
CAN POPE FRANCIS CLEAN UP GODA??S 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›
IT'S 'TERRIBLE' KIDS TAUGHT THEY CAN CHOOSE GENDER
VATICAN CITY AP -- Pope Francis has lamented that children, as he puts it, are being taught at school that gender can be a choice... 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›
IN DEFENSE OF TRUMP SOME POINT WRONGLY TO VATICAN WALLS
In Defense of Trump Some Point Wrongly to Vatican Walls... READ MORE›
POPE CONDEMNS RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION
Related Stories Pope Francis has denounced the brutal persecution of religious and ethnic minorities, in his traditional Christmas Day address... READ MORE›
WARPLANES KNOCK OUT ALEPPO HOSPITALS AS RUSSIAN-BACKED ASSAULT INTENSIFIES
Another rebel official said government forces were also attacking the insurgent-held Handarat refugee camp a few kilometers to the north of Aleppo... READ MORE›
POPE CLAIMS CHRISTMAS IS A 'CHARADE' DUE TO CONTINUED WAR ACROSS THE WORLD
The pope said that the lights, parties, christmas trees and nativity scenes of the season are a charade with so much war and hate... READ MORE›
VATICAN TO TAKE IN TWO REFUGEE FAMILIES AS POPE CALLS FOR 'EVERY RELIGION' TO HELP
Pope Francis has called on every religious community across Europe to do their part to stem the refugee crisis and offer sanctuary to migrant families... 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›
VATICAN ARRESTS 2 IN CONNECTION WITH LEAKED DOCUMENTS
His book, he said, described a Vatican that is very different from Pope Francis' vision of a church for the poor... READ MORE›
ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE BRINGS THOUSANDS TO STREETS OF ROME
In the encyclical Francis directed sharp criticism at global leaders for their failure to combat climate change... READ MORE›
ISIS HOSTAGE JOHN CANTLIE POSTS LAST FILM IN SERIES AS CONCERNS GROW FOR HIS SAFETY
Still, this month, the pope sent a letter to bishops worldwide, urging them to cooperate with the commission... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS TAKES REFUGEES BACK TO ROME FOLLOWING PROVOCATIVE AND EMOTIONAL LESBOS VISIT
But that was before Saturday, when Pope Francis whisked in and pioneered a third a ride with him on a jet bound for Rome... READ MORE›
AT VATICAN MAYORS PLEDGE CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHT
We need a moral dimension to the climate change debate, and Pope Francis is providing that, Mr. Brown said... READ MORE›
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VATICAN'S NEW GUIDELINES MAINTAIN BAN ON GAY PRIESTS
As Pope Francis approaches the fourth anniversary of being elected head of the Roman Catholic Church, he remains an exceedingly popular Catholic leader... READ MORE›
CHURCH SHOULD SAY SORRY OVER GAYS
Pope Francis says that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from homosexuals for the way they have treated them... READ MORE›
POPE URGES SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR PEDOPHILES AS DETAILS OF 2014 SLAYING OF GIRL 6 SHOCK ITALY
Pope Francis called for severe punishment for pedophiles on Sunday after new details emerged in Italy of the 2014 death of a 6-year-old girl who is alleg... READ MORE›
POPES DOCUMENT COULD PROFOUNDLY AFFECT FAMILIES
But Francis is also deeply pragmatic, particularly regarding internal church politics... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS ENTREATS MEXICOS YOUTH TO RESIST CALL OF DRUG CARTELS
Pope John Paul II also spoke about the ills of narcotics trafficking... READ MORE›
POPE AND RUSSIAN ORTHODOX LEADER TO HOLD HISTORIC ENCOUNTER IN CUBA
The planned encounter next Friday between Francis and Patriarch Kirill I at Havana's airport also highlights apparent moves toward greater solidarity amid current worries... READ MORE›
VOICE IS SOUGHT AT THE VATICAN ON REMARRIAGE
Homosexuality is regarded by the church as intrinsically disordered, a view that has left gay Catholics often sidelined, and gay couples feeling unacknowledged... READ MORE›
POPE CALLS FOR MORE DECENTRALIZED CATHOLIC CHURCH
Pope Francis called Saturday for a Catholic Church that is far more decentralized, where the laity play a greater role, bishops' conferences take care of c... READ MORE›
POPE INSISTS 'MARRIAGE IS BOND FOR MAN AND WOMAN'
The Church must search out these persons, welcome and accompany them, Pope Francis added... READ MORE›
WHERE IS POPE FRANCIS? A SCHEDULE OF HIS U.S. VISIT
22 and plans to stop in Washington D.C. New York City and Philadelphia... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS US VISIT PRODUCES ONE OF THE LARGEST SECURITY OPERATIONS IN THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY
Behind the scenes, the Secret Service has been mapping out a security strategy for a visit that is virtually unprecedented in nature... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS FEARS ISIS JIHADISTS 'INFILTRATING' EUROPE THROUGH REFUGEE CRISIS
Pope Francis has warned there is a danger Isis jihadists could use the ongoing refugee crisis to infiltrate Europe... READ MORE›