Pope Francis on Wednesday (11) appealed for calm in Sri Lanka and for authorities to "listen to the aspirations of the people" as the island reels from deadly violence and rioting
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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis urged Sri Lankan authorities on Monday (25) to reveal who was behind the country's 2019 Easter bombings in an attack the island's Catholics suspect was a plot to propel President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to power
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ROME — On what he described this year as an “Easter of war”,  Pope Francis spoke to tens of thousands of faithful in St. Peter’s Square about the “fear and anguish” evoked by the conflict in Ukraine, adding that he hoped news of suffering…
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Jorge Mario Bergoglio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 17, 1936, was elected the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church on this day in 2013, succeeding Benedict XVI who resigned  on February 28, 2013.
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ROME - Pope Francis called on authorities around the world to do more to help migrants and refugees, in comments to the faithful on the first Sunday of Advent. Directing his words towards governments and militaries, Francis said in St…
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COLOMBO - The Catholic Church of Sri Lanka on Wednesday (8) condemned a proposed visit by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and Minister of Foreign Affairs Prof. G. L. Pieris to the Vatican, with Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of…
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By Jason Horowitz VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Saturday (19) put a founder of the European Union on the track to sainthood, told Roman deacons to take care of the poor and met with a top prelate who once defended him against wild…
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The Lateran Treaty, one component of the Lateran Pacts of 1929, a set of agreements between the Kingdom of Italy under King Victor Emanuel III and the Holy See under Pope Pius XI, to settle the long-standing Roman Question was ratified on…
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By Jason Horowitz ROME — Pope Francis has broadened the Roman Catholic Church’s definition of sexual abuse by revising its penal code to explicitly acknowledge that adults, and not only children, can be victimized by priests and powerful…
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Regarded as one of the greatest Renaissance and Baroque buildings St. Peter's replacing an earlier basilica, was begun under Pope Julius II in 1506 and completed in 1615 under Paul V. It stood as the largest church in the world until 1989.…
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