“I’m available to do anything,” Pope Francis said. “There’s a mission that’s not public that’s underway; when it’s public I’ll talk about it.”
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Amid Hungary’s ‘no migrants’ policy, Pope Francis urges open doors and welcome
To be Christian is to be open and welcoming to others, Pope Francis said as he celebrated Mass outside Hungary’s Parliament building.
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In Hungary, Pope Francis meets with Ukrainian refugees and Russian church official
Francis’ visit to Hungary is bringing him as close as he’s come to the front lines of the war.
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Pope Francis praises Hungary’s protection of traditional values—and pushes the country to welcome migrants
Mentioning some areas of common ground with Victor Orbán’s government, Pope Francis described as “ideological colonization” efforts to promote acceptance across Europe of “so-called gender theory.”
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Over a century after the Armenian genocide, a small Armenian Catholic community carries on in Istanbul
A tiny population of about 60,000 Armenian Christians remain in Turkey today. Most, uprooted from villages in eastern Anatolia, now live in neighborhoods in Istanbul.
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Top Vatican official says London property deal was a double ‘Via Crucis’
Ten people are on trial in the Vatican, facing multiple charges regarding the Vatican Secretariat of State’s investment in a property on Sloane Avenue in London. The Vatican lost more than $200 million on the deal.
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Polish bishops defend St. John Paul II, form independent commission to get ‘full picture’ on sex abuse record
The bishops of Poland announced they will create a commission of experts to investigate cases of abuse of minors by clergy from the past, including Karol Wojtyla’s archbishopric.
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German bishops vote in favor of blessing same-sex unions in the Catholic Church
Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives agreed to call for the church in Germany to approve blessings of same-sex unions, despite Vatican statements.
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Polish experts reject claim JPII ‘covered up abuse’ and urge church records be opened to give full context
The fact that Cardinal Karol Wojtyla—the future Pope John Paul II—knew about abuse when he was an archbishop of Krakow, Poland, is neither new nor surprising, experts say.
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John Paul II knew of and concealed child sex abuse as archbishop, Polish TV reports
According to a TV report from a Polish channel, John Paul II knew about priests who sexually abused children in his archdiocese of Krakow in the 1970s.