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Pope Francis gives sick girl free run of audience stage, delighting crowd

Reuters
Posted at Aug 21 06:24 PM

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis allowed a girl suffering from an undisclosed illness to move around undisturbed clapping and dancing on the stage for most of his general audience on Wednesday, delighting the crowd. Read more »

Cardinal George Pell loses appeal on child sex abuse charges

Holly Robertson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 21 08:20 AM

MELBOURNE - Convicted pedophile cardinal George Pell had his appeal against child sex abuse charges rejected by an Australian court on Wednesday.  Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: August 8, 2019

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Posted at Aug 09 12:55 AM

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Touched by a child

Gregorio Borgia, AP Photo
Posted at Aug 08 11:53 AM

Pope Francis meets members of the Auxilium social cooperation organization, during his weekly general audience, in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday. Read more »

Pope condemns spate of US gun violence, prays for victims

Reuters
Posted at Aug 04 07:59 PM

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned attacks on "defenseless people" in a spate of gun violence in three American states, including one that killed 20 people in a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. Read more »

Vatican to open ossuaries under trapdoor in princesses hunt

Ella Ide, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 20 04:50 PM

The Vatican was set Saturday to open ossuaries discovered under a trapdoor as it attempts to get to the bottom of a riddle involving two princesses and a missing teenager. Read more »

Vatican empty tombs add new twist to missing girl mystery

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 11 11:47 PM

Experts were looking for the remains of Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican clerk who failed to return home following a music lesson in Rome in 1983. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: July 5, 2019

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Posted at Jul 06 12:52 AM

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Putin and the Pope

Alessandro Di Meo, AFP/Pool
Posted at Jul 05 10:25 AM

Pope Francis (right) greets Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival for a private audience on Thursday at the Vatican. Read more »

A clash of worldviews as Pope Francis, Putin meet again

Jason Horowitz, The New York Times
Posted at Jul 05 08:56 AM

When Putin visited the Vatican on Thursday, it was more than a mere meeting — their third — between the two men. Rather it was a tête-à-tête between the standard-bearers of competing views of Christianity on the European continent as ideological polarization between nationalists and liberals cleaves the West. Read more »

Putin meets Pope Francis, ‘welcoming’ populist gov’t during Italy trip

Catherine Marciano and Maria Panina, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 04 11:02 PM

ROME, ITALY (UPDATED) - Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Rome Thursday for a lightning visit including talks with Pope Francis and Italy's populist government, which has called for an easing of sanctions despite Moscow's ongoing crisis with the West. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 19, 2019

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Posted at Jun 19 11:51 PM

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Kiss from the Pope

Andrew Medichini, AP
Posted at Jun 19 07:37 PM

Pope Francis kisses a child's forehead, as he arrives for his weekly general audience at Saint Peter's Square, at the Vatican on Wednesday. Read more »

In historic shift, Vatican to consider married priests for Amazon region

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 10:20 AM

It was the most direct mention ever in a Vatican document of the possibility of a married priesthood, albeit limited, and a greater ministerial role for women in one area of the world. Read more »

Iloilo nuns celebrate Mother Rosario's path to sainthood

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 14 05:07 AM

ILOILO CITY - Sister Visitacion Alecto was only 16 when she went to Beaterio Del Santisimo Rosario De Molo to become a nun.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: June 12, 2019

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Updated as of Jun 13 02:09 AM

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Mike Arroyo's great, great grandaunt now a step closer to sainthood

Erik Palino, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 12 11:19 PM

MANILA (UPDATED) - A Filipino nun, who happened to be the great, great grandaunt of former first gentleman Mike Arroyo, is now a step closer to sainthood.  Read more »

Pope's general audience

Gregorio Borgia, AP
Posted at Jun 12 05:43 PM

The Chinese and Hong Kong flags are waved by the crowd as Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday.  Read more »

Vatican condemns gender theory as bid to destroy nature

Reuters
Posted at Jun 11 01:16 PM

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican condemned gender theory on Monday as part of a "confused concept of freedom", saying in a new document that the idea of gender being determined by personal feeling rather than biology was an attempt to "annihilate nature". Read more »

From hiding, ex-Vatican envoy accuses pope of 'blatantly lying'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 11 07:25 AM

A longtime Vatican dissident broke months of silence Monday to accuse Pope Francis of "blatantly lying" in denying knowledge of the sexual abuse allegations against a now-defrocked American cardinal.  Read more »