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Francis said he too wanted to give the faithful the gift of God's mercy for the coming year.
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Sweden's small Catholic community is growing, mainly due to immigration.
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Francis made the ambitious proposal in a message to mark the church's World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
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An evening mass was held on Aug. 30 for 37 people killed in the Italian earthquake.
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Two articles orchestrated by the Vatican defend Pope Francis' "The Joy of Love."
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A Vatican tribunal has declared it had no jurisdiction to put two journalists on trial for publishing confidential documents.
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Pope Francis is making his first foray into the former Soviet Union with a weekend visit to Armenia, a year after he riled Turkey by declaring the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians genocide and amid fresh tensions with rival Azerbaijan.The Vatican has long cheered the Armenian cause,
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The nomination came two days after Francis laid out the legal procedures to oust a bishop for negligence.
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Summit participants call human trafficking, forced labor and prostitution a "crime against humanity" that should be prosecuted as such.
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When Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, visit migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos this weekend, they'll be doing more than sending a political message about the need to welcome refugees.Christianity's two most