Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.
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Pope Francis warns of elitist German synod process
The pope warned there’s a risk that a reform process in the German Catholic Church over calls for married priests and other possible liberalizing reforms might become harmfully “ideological.”
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Pope Francis admits mishandling of sex abuse cases, says church must do more
The pope acknowledged that he had needed to “wake up to cases that were all covered up.”
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Pope Francis on his health, critics and future papacy
Pope Francis says he hasn’t even considered issuing norms to regulate future papal resignations and plans to continue for as long as he can as bishop of Rome, despite a wave of attacks by some top-ranking cardinals and bishops.
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Cardinal: Benedict XVI’s secretary publishing new book is an ‘unseemly indiscretion’
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said that the publication of Archbishop Gänswein’s tell-all book on Pope Benedict’s private communications was “unseemly.”
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Funeral for Cardinal Pell, critic and close advisor of Pope Francis, held at Vatican
Pope Francis imparted the final blessing at the funeral of Cardinal Pell, who decried his papacy as a “catastrophe.”
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Cardinal Pell blasts Pope Francis in secret memo: ‘This pontificate is a disaster’
Cardinal Pell, who died Tuesday, had written a memo outlining his concerns about Pope Francis’ papacy, which was published soon after his death.
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‘Vatican Girl’: subject of Netflix’s true-crime show has case reopened by Holy See
The Vatican said Monday it has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case.
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Pope Francis has private audience with longtime Benedict aide amid tell-all book fallout
Pope Francis met on Monday with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI who has raised eyebrows with an extraordinary memoir.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary to publish new tell-all book exposing ‘dark maneuvers’
Archbishop Georg Gaenswein’s “Nothing but the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI” is being published this month by the Piemme imprint of Italian publishing giant Mondadori.