Francis has shown a great interest in Iraq and its people that have suffered so much since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Vatican Dispatch
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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re is the new Dean of the College of Cardinals
He succeeds Cardinal Angelo Sodano, 92, who was dean for almost 15 years.
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Mike Pence and Pope Francis meet in a surprisingly long first visit
Mr. Pence told Francis “you made me a hero” back home by granting him the private audience.
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Pope Francis appoints Bishop Perez, son of Cuban exiles, as new archbishop of Philadelphia
Bishop Nelson J. Perez becomes the third Hispanic archbishop in the United States and the first to serve in this archdiocese.
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Pope Francis calls on all Christians to show hospitality to each other—and to migrants
Francis called on all Christians “to work together to show to the migrants the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ.”
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Pope Francis: “I will never grow tired of condemning every form of anti-Semitism”
Pope Francis firmly condemned “every form of anti-Semitism” on the eve of the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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Pope Francis meets with Congolese president
The Vatican revealed that the pope and president discussed “the good existing bilateral relations” between the Holy See and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and expressed “satisfaction” at the ratification of the framework agreement between the two countries on matters of mutual interest.
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Benedict XVI has asked Cardinal Sarah to have his name removed from the book on priestly celibacy
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI did not co-author the book ‘From the Depths of Our Hearts’ with Cardinal Robert Sarah and asked to have his name removed as co-author, according to Archbishop Georg Gänswein.
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Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sarah coauthor book on celibacy, opposing the ordination of married men
They call on the church “not to be impressed” by “the bad advocacies, the diabolical lies, the erroneous ways by which they wished to devalue priestly celibacy” in the media reporting of that synod.
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Pope Francis accepts resignation of Cardinal Sodano as dean of College of Cardinals
Francis also changed the norms of the office so that the dean would be elected to a five-year term renewable only once.