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Pope Francis taken to hospital with respiratory infection
Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will need to spend “a few days” in hospital for treatment, the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement said the 86-year-old pontiff had complained of breathing difficulties in recent days. It added that tests showed he did not have Covid-19.
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Is a Deceased Pope Tapped with a Silver Hammer to Verify He's Dead?
Does part of the process of determining that a Pope has died call for him to be tapped on the forehead with a silver hammer?
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Pope travels to Canada on 'pilgrimage of penance' for indigenous abuse
Pope Francis is scheduled to land in Canada on Sunday on what he has called a "pilgrimage of penance" to apologize for the abuse indigenous children endured at hands of largely Catholic-run residential schools.
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Pope Francis warns pro-war Russian patriarch not to be 'Putin's altar boy'
Pope Francis warned the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, not to become “Putin’s altar boy,” he said in an interview this week. In his strongest words to date against the pro-war Patriarch, Francis also slammed Kirill for endorsing Russia’s stated reasons for invading Ukraine.
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Vatican reveals it owns more than 5,000 properties
Real estate holdings published for first time show it owns 4,051 properties in Italy, 1,120 abroad
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Pope planning North Korea visit, says Seoul intelligence chief
It would be the first ever papal visit to the totalitarian state
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Vatican indicts 10 people, including a cardinal, over an international financial scandal
The Vatican has indicted 10 people, including an Italian cardinal, for several alleged financial crimes including extortion, corruption, fraud, forgery, embezzlement and abuse of power. The investigation, which started in July 2019, was carried out by the Vatican in cooperation with Italian authorities and revealed "a vast network of ties between financial market operators who generated substantial losses for the Vatican finances," a statement from the Vatican said on Saturday.
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Trudeau says Pope should apologize on Canadian soil for church's role in residential schools
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday he has asked the pope to come to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church's role running residential schools for indigenous children, after nearly 1,000 bodies were found in two mass graves.
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Pope, on Palm Sunday, says devil taking advantage of pandemic
Pope Francis led Palm Sunday services in an almost empty St. Peter's Basilica because of coronavirus restrictions for the second consecutive year and said the devil is taking advantage of the pandemic.
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Pope Francis in new book says pandemic should spur governments to permanently implement UBI
The pope outlines several new programs such Universal Basic Income to respond to unprecedented times as a result of COVID. In a wide-ranging book-length interview, Pope Francis speaks publicly for the first time about the persecution of the Uighurs in China, voices his support for the racial justice protests that followed the killing of George Floyd, speaks against those protesting coronavirus restrictions and calls for a universal basic income.
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Popes knew of allegations against ex-Cardinal McCarrick, report finds
Former Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II were aware of claims relating to disgraced American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, whom the Vatican later defrocked after investigating sexual misconduct allegations, but did not halt the powerful cleric's rise through the church, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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Pope returns to private library for audience as virus surges
Pope Francis urged people to follow recommendations from governments and health authorities to prevent coronavirus infections as he returned to his private library for his Wednesday general audience amid a surge of infections in Europe.
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Pope Francis appoints Wilton Gregory, an outspoken civil rights advocate, as first black American cardinal
Archbishop Wilton Gregory has been appointed the first African-American Roman Catholic cardinal.
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Pope met COVID-19 infected bishop at Vatican
Pope Francis has been warned of potential exposure to COVID-19 after a Vatican diplomat was infected, Australian media reported on Friday. Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, the Holy See’s ambassador to Australia, had a face-to-face meeting with Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 6, less than two weeks before testing positive to COVID-19 in Australia, Nine News reported. Australian authorities say a diplomat who flew into Sydney on Oct. 9 had tested positive to the coronavirus. They won’t reveal the diplomat’s identity. The diplomat tested positive 10 days after he started quarantining at home in the national...
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Pull investments from companies not committed to environment, pope says
Pope Francis on Saturday urged people to pull investments from companies that are not committed to protecting the environment, adding his voice to calls for the economic model that emerges from the coronavirus pandemic to be a sustainable one.
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Pope calls for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over Nile dam
Pope Francis called for dialogue between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Saturday, urging them not to let a dispute over a dam on the Nile lead to conflict. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is being built some 15 km (9 miles) from Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, has become a major source of discord between the three countries.
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Vatican urges Catholics to drop investments in fossil fuels, arms
The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment.
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Catholic archbishop tells Trump protests, virus are a deep state plot
President Trump tweeted a letter written to him from Carlo Maria Viganò, a Catholic archbishop, who suggests the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd protests are part of a 'deep state' plot to hurt the president's re-election. In the long-winded letter, Viganò describes the current climate as a battle against good and evil and says Trump's participation in the anti-abortion 'March for Life' 'confirm[s] which side you wish to fight on.'
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The Church: Code of Silence
Secret internal documents reveal how church officials have protected priests accused of pedophilia by moving them from country-to-country, sometimes as far away as to Africa. They call it 'the geographical solution'. Even Pope Francis is implicated. When he was bishop of Buenos Aires, he tried to influence the Argentinean justice system in order to protect a convicted priest. From Cameroon to Argentina, America to France and Italy, this investigation traces the transfers of pedophile priests.
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Coronavirus drains Vatican coffers as income falls, deficits loom
Late last month, the Vatican announced the coronavirus pandemic had forced Pope Francis to postpone an annual fund raising campaign among Catholics worldwide to help him carry out his ministry.
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