Cardinal Pell will return to Australia to appear in court at a hearing scheduled for July 6.
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Australian police charge Cardinal Pell with sex offenses
Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ chief financial adviser and Australia’s most senior Catholic, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever be charged in the church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal.
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Pope Francis tells five new cardinals not to become ‘princes’ but to serve like Jesus
Jesus “has not called you to become ‘princes’ in the church,” the pope said, but “to serve like him and with him.”
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Francis makes clear his mission as pope is far from ended
The pope’s words can be read as an answer to those who hope his pontificate may end soon.
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Canadian cardinal spent 9 years in a Colombian war zone. Now he serves a new periphery.
Pope Francis encouraged Cardinal Lacroix and the bishops from Quebec to be a missionary church, “a church that goes out, reaches out to people.”
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Pope Francis announces aid to war stricken people of South Sudan
The war has “caused a grave humanitarian crisis that has left half of the country’s population, around 7.3 million people, hungry every day.”
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Pope Francis encourages Chancellor Merkel to continue the fight against climate change
This was the pope and chancellor’s sixth meeting.
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Pope Francis will meet with Venezuela bishops as crisis deepens
The meeting comes in the midst of an ongoing national crisis in Venezuela marked by daily protests that have lasted more than 70 days and by acts of repression from the forces of President Maduro’s government.
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Avoid becoming Christians of “the right or the left” urges Pope Francis during Pentecost Homily
Pope Francis celebrated Pentecost Mass, urging Christians to avoid “diversity without unity” and “unity without diversity.”
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Vatican official: President Trump’s decision to withdraw from Paris climate change accord a ‘disaster’
Vatican officials slammed it as “a disaster for the whole world because the United States has such importance today and is a country that many follow.”