Pope Francis is facing a sustained campaign of opposition from some Catholics. He has responded with the papal equivalent of “no more Mr. Nice Guy.”
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Vatican apologizes for removing Catholic LGBT advocacy group from synod website
The apology drew immediate praise Monday from New Ways Ministry as a “historic” move to repair the painful rift between the Catholic hierarchy and the gay community.
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Pope Francis wants to visit North Korea to create ‘momentum for peace’
South Korean President Moon Jae-in told Pope Francis Friday that a papal visit to North Korea would help create “momentum for peace” on the peninsula, officials said.
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Court absolves former altar boy accused of abusing a younger boy in Vatican’s youth seminary
A Vatican tribunal absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary, ruling Wednesday in the first clergy sexual abuse trial to be heard by the pope’s criminal court.
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What you need to know from Day 1 of the Vatican real estate trial
The Vatican prosecutor conceded procedural errors in his fraud and corruption investigation into the Holy See’s finances and offered to remedy them by essentially starting over, throwing the trial of 10 people into question.
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Pope Francis said he doesn’t understand why people refuse to take Covid-19 vaccines
“Even in the College of Cardinals, there are some negationists,” Francis said Wednesday, en route home from Slovakia.
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Vatican won’t say if women can vote in upcoming Synod of Bishops
To date women haven’t been able to vote—not even the religious superiors who participate as representatives of the world’s 641,000 nuns.
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The biggest criminal trial in modern Vatican history begins tomorrow. Here’s what you need to know.
Vatican prosecutors have alleged a jaw-dropping series of scandals in the biggest criminal trial in the Vatican’s modern history, which opens Tuesday in a modified courtroom in the Vatican Museums.
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Photos: Pope Francis visits child cancer patients in hospital where he’s recovering from surgery
A smiling and standing pope patted the children on their heads as their parents held them, according to photos of the encounter released by the Vatican.
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Explainer: Who’s in charge while Pope Francis is in the hospital? Pope Francis, still.
Even though Pope Francis remains hospitalized while he recovers from intestinal surgery Sunday at a Rome hospital, he is still pope and very much in charge.