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LOST IN TRANSLATION? POPE PONDERS AN UPDATE TO LORDS PRAYER
Pope Francis has generally shown a willingness to rethink liturgical translations... READ MORE›
POPE MEETING SUU KYI ON MYANMAR REFUGEE CRISIS AMID OUTCRY
Suu Kyi studied at Oxford before returning to Myanmar and being placed under detention for 15 years during the country's long military dictatorship... READ MORE›
PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT EARTH AND SPACE, POPE'S ISS CALL ONE SMALL STEP FOR VATICAN-RUSSIAN TIES
Pope Francis took a small step toward improved Vatican-Russian relations Thursday when he chatted with Russian cosmonauts and praised their understanding o... 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›
ALLEGATIONS SHAKE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN ITALY
Bishop Claudio Cipolla of Padua cut short a visit to Latin America to deal with the scandal... 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 PRESENTS TRUMP WITH A 'POLITICALLY LOADED GIFT'
Pope Francis presents Trump with a 'politically loaded gift' His encyclical on climate change... 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›
GIRL STEALS POPE FRANCIS' HAT AT VATICAN GREETING
VATICAN CITY RNS -- It took a split second for him to realize what happened... 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 APPEARS TO BACK ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTS IN LETTER CONDEMNING POPULISM
The remarks can be viewed as a clear endorsement by the Argentinian pope of resistance against populist and xenophobic political movements... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SAYS BAN ON FEMALE PRIESTS IS LIKELY TO ENDURE
Francis has said before that the Catholic Church's ban on ordaining women as priests is a closed matter... READ MORE›
POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE
Repeating the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church about respecting and not discriminating against gays, Pope Francis said that one could condemn certain behavior... 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 SUGGESTS DONALD TRUMP IS NOT CHRISTIAN
Francis also took questions on a handful of other issues... READ MORE›
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OTHER POPES FRANCIS SEEKS WORLDLY CHANGE
Throughout the paper, like a recurring chant, Francis intones that everyone and everything is interconnected -- to God, to creation, to fellow human beings... READ MORE›
WHY WERE MELANIA AND IVANKA TRUMP WEARING ALL BLACK WITH VEILS AT THE VATICAN?
White House adviser Ivanka Trump was also dressed all in black with a head covering... 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›
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POPE FRANCIS - FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T RETIRE
Will the catholic church ever earn women's forgiveness?... 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›
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›
POPE FRANCIS URGING LESS JUDGMENT SIGNALS PATH FOR DIVORCED ON COMMUNION
Conservative Catholics, who have already expressed concern that Francis could destabilize the church and undermine doctrine, were far less impressed... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SAYS CHURCH SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAYS
Pope Francis said on Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from gays for the way they had treated them... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS HOLDS YEARLY CHRISTMAS EVE MASS
Materialism has taken us hostage this Christmas, he said... 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 FRANCIS BEGINS EGYPT TRIP TO SHOW UNITY WITH EMBATTLED CHRISTIANS
Pope John Paul II visited Egypt in February 2000... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS WASHES FEET OF REFUGEES FOR EASTER WEEK
The traditional Easter Week foot-washing ceremony by the pontiff is meant as a Catholic gesture of service... 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›
POPE FRANCIS SCOLDS PERSON WHO PULLED HIM DOWN IN MEXICO
Hide Caption 12 of 27 27 photos Pope Francis visits Mexico Pope Francis meets with bishops during his visit to the national cathedral in Mexico City on February 13... READ MORE›
POPE FRANCIS SAYS PANEL WILL STUDY WHETHER WOMEN MAY SERVE AS DEACONS
Some Catholic women cite research showing that women served as deacons in the church's early history... READ MORE›