Coach Jim Harbaugh presented a custom Wolverines helmet and a pair of Nike Air Jordan sneakers to Pope Francis.
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Pope Francis urges a “revolution of tenderness” in new TED Talk
Pope Francis asked all people to work toward a future that lifts up society’s most marginalized, including migrants, the sick, the unemployed and prisoners.
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Dissenters’ conference on ‘Amoris Laetitia’ hears call for an answer to the dubia
The conference brought together six lay people from different countries “to reflect on the post-synod apostolic exhortation that has aroused grave perplexities and widespread unease in numerous components of the Catholic world.”
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Pope Francis in Egypt: seeking better relations with the Muslim world
Pope Francis will be in Egypt for two days beginning on April 28.
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Bill O’Reilly meets Pope Francis. How did that happen?
Bill O’Reilly, a Catholic, who last year challenged the pope’s views on immigration and promised to convince him of the need for reform, shook hands briefly with the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics at the Vatican.
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Will he or won’t he? Speculation builds on Trump meeting with Pope Francis
The Vatican spokesman, Greg Burke, told America that no official request for an audience had arrived at the Vatican from the U.S. president as of late Wednesday evening, April 19.
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Pope Francis to canonize Fatima seers May 13; October date for other saints
Pope Francis will declare the sainthood of Blessed Jacinta Marto and Blessed Francisco Marto, two of the shepherd children who saw Mary in Fatima, Portugal, during his visit to the site of the apparitions May 13.
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Pope Benedict celebrated his 90th birthday with Bavarian guests, beer, pretzels
Pope Benedict said his heart was filled with gratitude “for the 90 years the good Lord has given me. There have been trying and difficult times, but he always guided me and pulled me through.”
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Pope washes feet of 12 prison inmates at Holy Thursday Mass
This gesture, he continued, is meant to “sow love among us” and that the faithful, even those in prison, can imitate Christ in the same manner.
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Pope Francis visits high-security prison on Holy Thursday
It is the third Holy Thursday that Francis has spent at a detention center, part of his longstanding emphasis on ministering to prisoners.