
Pope called out over women’s role in Church
Students questioned him on the Church’s historical part in entrenching female subservience
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Students questioned him on the Church’s historical part in entrenching female subservience
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Pope Francis implored bishops not to cover up the sexual abuse of children, during an open-air mass on Sunday that capped a three-day visit to Belgium, which…
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Pope Francis wrapped up an arduous 12-day tour of the Asia-Pacific on Friday, defying health concerns to connect with believers from the jungle of Papua New…
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Pope Francis arrived Monday in East Timor, where he will rally the Catholic-majority nation's faithful with a huge mass on the third stop of a gruelling 12-day…
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An estimated 98 percent of Papua New Guineans are Christian and about 25 percent are Catholic.
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Pope Francis on Sunday kicked off global Christmas celebrations with a call for peace, as Israel's war on Hamas and Russia's invasion of Ukraine cast a shadow…
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Pope Francis on Saturday dismissed US bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent conservative who had repeatedly criticized his papacy, following concerns over the…
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Pope Francis on Wednesday called for all efforts to be made to avoid a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza, and expressed concern at risk of a…
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Pope Francis on Sunday called for "peace in Israel and in Palestine", saying "terrorism and war do not lead to a solution".
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Pope Francis opened the Synod of Bishops' general assembly in Rome on Wednesday, which in a historic first gives women a vote, after a vast global consultation…
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Pope Francis on Saturday led tens of thousands of worshippers packed into a stadium for a mass in Marseille after earlier striding into a politically loaded…
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Pope Francis met on Monday with the new Russian ambassador to the Vatican, who said they discussed the pontiff's efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.
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Pope Francis said on Sunday he would create 21 new cardinals from across the world at the end of September.
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Former pope Benedict XVI, who in 2013 became the first pontiff to resign as head of the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages, died on 31 December at age 95,…
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Pope Francis said Wednesday that former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, whose health has steadily been deteriorating, is "very ill" and he is praying for…
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Pope Francis on Tuesday removed Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as president of the Catholic Church's worldwide charity arm Caritas Internationalis, along with its…
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Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the "monstrosities, the tortured bodies" found in war-torn Ukraine, in prayers after his weekly audience.
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Religion should not be used as a prop for power, Pope Francis told an inter-faith meeting in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
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