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Pope Francis
Pope says recovery from coronavirus must be just, equitable
Pope Francis called on Sunday for an all-embracing vision of the world after the Covid-19 crisis, saying moving on without global solidarity or excluding sectors of society from the recovery would ...
Pope livestreams Easter prayers for virus victims
Pope Francis prayed for tens of thousands of coronavirus victims in an unprecedented livestream Easter Sunday message delivered from a hauntingly empty Vatican to a world under lockdown.
Pope slap a hit on social media
An image of Pope Francis slapping his way free from the clutches of an admirer late Tuesday had social media abuzz with comments on the pontiff's prompt riposte.Francis had greeted children before ...
Pope lifts 'pontifical secret' for sex abuse cases
Priests can no longer cite papal secrecy in abuse cases, the Vatican said Tuesday, the latest move by Pope Francis to combat silence surrounding pedophilia in the Roman Catholic church.The Church has ...
Pope rails against nukes in Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Pope Francis Sunday railed against atomic weapons, the nuclear deterrent and the growing arms trade, as he paid tribute to the victims of the "unspeakable horror" of the Nagasaki bomb.In a highly ...
Pope to visit Hiroshima on anti-nuclear weapon mission
Pope Francis, who years ago hoped to be a missionary in Japan, travels to the sites of the world’s only atomic attacks this week seeking a ban on nuclear weapons.The Argentine pontiff, 82, ...
Pope urges Silicon Valley to avoid slide towards new ‘barbarism’
Pope Francis urged Silicon Valley giants on Friday to make sure technological advances such as artificial intelligence do not lead to a new "form of barbarism" where the law of the strongest prevails ...
Pope backs carbon pricing to stem global warming
Pope Francis said on Friday that carbon pricing is "essential" to stem global warming - his clearest statement yet in support of penalising polluters - and appealed to climate change deniers to ...
Pope to 'go beyond fear' in Romania
Pope Francis heads to Romania on Friday with a message of integration not just for its faith communities but for a post-election European Union, following nationalist gains.During the three-day trip ...
Pope changes Church law to make reporting sex abuse obligatory
Pope Francis on Thursday passed a landmark new measure to oblige those who know about sex abuse in the Catholic Church to report it to their superiors, in a move which could bring countless new cases ...
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