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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Powerful Vatican Prelate, Dies at 94: Sodano, who had been ill for some time and died on Friday night, was secretary of state under two ...
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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Powerful Vatican Prelate, Dies at 94
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Longtime Vatican Secretary of State Sodano dies: The 94-year-old served under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. as Secretary of State ...
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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Powerful Vatican Prelate, Dies at 94: Sodano, who had been ill for some time and died on Friday night, was secretary of state under two ...
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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Powerful Vatican Prelate, Dies at 94
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Longtime Vatican Secretary of State Sodano dies: The 94-year-old served under Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. as Secretary of State ...
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Longtime Vatican Secretary of State Sodano dies
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Ex-foreign minister Sodano: longtime Vatican number two is dead: For a decade and a half, Angelo Sodano represented the Vatican in the world ...
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Ex-foreign minister Sodano: longtime Vatican number two is dead
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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican power broker for decades under two popes, dies at 94
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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican power broker for decades under two popes ...
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Pope Francis puts rumours of retirement to rest in new memoir: The 87-year-old pontiff says he sees "no justification" for giving the post up ...
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Pope Francis puts rumours of retirement to rest in new memoir
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Pope Francis skips Palm Sunday homily at start of busy Holy Week that will test his health
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Quick Glance: Pope Francis Leads Palm Sunday Mass
  • Pope Francis blessed olive branches in front of 25,000 believers.

  • He wore a white mantle and a red stole for the blessing liturgy.

  • Due to hoarseness, the Pope did not deliver the sermon.

  • The celebration signifies the start of the "Holy Week" for 1.7 billion Christians globally.
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Photographer snags an unexpected image of Pope Francis: Having covered the Vatican for 27 years — that's three popes — Associated Press photographer Andrew ...
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Photographer snags an unexpected image of Pope Francis
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Hungary's Orban Says Trump's Plan To End Ukraine War Is To Cut Funding: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, back in the country after a private ...
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Hungary's Orban Says Trump's Plan To End Ukraine War Is To Cut ...
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Belgian former bishop who sexually abused nephews removed from priesthood, years after confessing
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Pope Francis Faces Growing Revolt: The pontiff's softening of church rhetoric on issues like same-sex relationships has inflamed tensions within Catholicism.
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Pope Francis Faces Growing Revolt
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Pope Francis expected to visit Koekelberg Basilica in Brussels: There is speculation the Pope will visit the famous Basilica in Brussels during the weekends of ...
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Pope Francis expected to visit Koekelberg Basilica in Brussels
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Judge Skewers Texas Lawyer Trying to Close Charity Helping Migrants: "You did not offer to act in good faith," an El Paso judge told a Texas lawyer regarding an ...
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Judge Skewers Texas Lawyer Trying to Close Charity Helping Migrants
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Pancaked Popes & bananas: The Vatican's choice for the Venice Biennale: An infamous Italian artist will create an outdoor installation for the Vatican’s ...
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Pancaked Popes & bananas: The Vatican's choice for the Venice ...
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Helge Schneider: What honor was bestowed on the original Mülheimer: Helge Schneider signs the Golden Book of the city of Mülheim.
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Helge Schneider: What honor was bestowed on the original Mülheimer
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CBCP plans to ‘revisit,’ not reopen, Lipa apparition case: This is due to ‘lapses in communication’ in transmitting the 1951 Vatican decree on the Lipa ...
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CBCP plans to ‘revisit,’ not reopen, Lipa apparition case
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Good Friday procession on the Haniel spoil tip: this is the program: One week before the big Way of the Cross procession on the Haniel spoil tip ...
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Good Friday procession on the Haniel spoil tip: this is the program
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'You can be whoever you want to be at this school': Priory Community School was praised for its "kind, empathetic" students and "rich" ...
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'You can be whoever you want to be at this school'
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Vintage Chicago Tribune: What to know about Mundelein, a century after his elevation as Chicago’s first Cardinal
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Vintage Chicago Tribune: What to know about Mundelein, a century after his ...
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Easter in Rome: a quick guide: Italy celebrates Pasqua with traditions, food and public holidays. The Vatican marks Holy Week with a series of liturgical ...
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Easter in Rome: a quick guide
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Vatican secretary archbishop concludes official visit to Jordan: AMMAN — The Holy See secretary for relations with states and international organisations ...
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Vatican secretary archbishop concludes official visit to Jordan
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China, Taiwan, and Core of Vatican Diplomacy : When it comes to the Holy See, neither Taipei’s nor Beijing’s typical tactics for wooing diplomatic allies are ...
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China, Taiwan, and Core of Vatican Diplomacy 
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A Papal Tour to Normalize Relations Between Vietnam and the Vatican: Both sides have promised not to interfere in each other’s internal affairs.
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A Papal Tour to Normalize Relations Between Vietnam and the Vatican
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Vatican announces resignation of Polish bishop due to "negligence in handling sexual abuse"
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Vatican announces resignation of Polish bishop due to
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Vatican co-organizes meeting in Taiwan: New Taipei City conference plans for dialogue with Confucianism
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Vatican co-organizes meeting in Taiwan
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Pope Francis has hospital check-up, returns to Vatican: Pope Francis, who has been suffering from influenza, made a brief trip to a Roman hospital for medical ...
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Pope Francis has hospital check-up, returns to Vatican
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Ex-boyfriend suspected of killing 16-y-o in police custody: WESTMORELAND, Jamaica – A male who is said to be the ex-boyfriend of 16-year-old Tara Alecia Dennis ...
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Ex-boyfriend suspected of killing 16-y-o in police custody
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Pope Francis cancels engagements due to mild flu symptoms, Vatican says: Pope Francis has canceled his engagements Monday morning due to persistent but mild flu ...
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Pope Francis cancels engagements due to mild flu symptoms, Vatican says
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Pope Francis Abruptly Cancels Audiences Amid 'Mild' Health Issue: Pope Francis has canceled recent events due to health problems, but the Vatican says the ...
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Pope Francis Abruptly Cancels Audiences Amid 'Mild' Health Issue
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Catholic migrant shelter battles Texas AG, who wants to shut it down: Texas' Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, sued to shut down Annunciation House ...
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Catholic migrant shelter battles Texas AG, who wants to shut it down
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Meet the keeper of the Vatican's 2,797 keys: Before dawn at the Vatican Museums, the key keeper and his team have to open up more than 2,700 doors.
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Meet the keeper of the Vatican's 2,797 keys
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The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is retiring. Here’s what he wants you to know
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The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is retiring. Here’s what he wants you ...
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Sex is ‘divine’: How Pope Francis is recasting the Catholic Church’s views of intimacy
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Sex is ‘divine’: How Pope Francis is recasting the Catholic Church’s views ...
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Meet the Vatican’s AI mentor: Friar Paolo Benanti is shaping how to control artificial intelligence in Rome and the Vatican.
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Meet the Vatican’s AI mentor
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43 countries demand international probe into Navalny’s death: GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)— More than 40 countries on Monday demanded an independent international ...
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43 countries demand international probe into Navalny’s death
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The Vatican and the War in Gaza: Paul Elie on Pope Francis and the Catholic Church’s response to the Israel-Hamas War.
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The Vatican and the War in Gaza
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First female Argentine saint brings together Pope Francis and Milei: Pope Francis on Sunday will elevate to sainthood the first female saint from his native ...
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First female Argentine saint brings together Pope Francis and Milei
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Rome's trams set to stop for Jubilee works: The city will take all trams out of circulation from May to October in preparation for the Vatican's 2025 Jubilee ...
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Rome's trams set to stop for Jubilee works
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Anti-Semitism: Pope Francis concerned about global rise in attacks against Jews: In a letter published by the Vatican, Catholics complain about growing hatred of ...
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Anti-Semitism: Pope Francis concerned about global rise in attacks against ...
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Italy street artist, once a rebel with a brush, gets papal blessing: When Italian artist Mauro Pallotta secretly pasted a mural depicting Pope Francis as a caped ...
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Italy street artist, once a rebel with a brush, gets papal blessing
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Pope sees 'hypocrisy' in those who criticise LGBT blessings : LGBT blessings were authorised last month in the Vatican.
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Pope sees 'hypocrisy' in those who criticise LGBT blessings
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Pope still suffering a cold, again limits reading at weekly audience: Pope still suffering a cold, again limits reading at weekly audience
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Pope still suffering a cold, again limits reading at weekly audience
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Church rejects claims of Virgin Mary statue crying blood: Church rejects claims of Virgin Mary statue crying blood
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Church rejects claims of Virgin Mary statue crying blood
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Gareth O'Callaghan: Vocations are like trends — they change over time: I often ask myself why a man would want to become a priest in today’s Ireland
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Gareth O'Callaghan: Vocations are like trends — they change over time
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Poland fines US-owned TV station for "biased" report on pope's response to child sex abuse
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Poland fines US-owned TV station for
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‘If Hunt doesn’t cut ridiculous taxes for small businesses, we’re moving abroad’: Small business owners face shutting up shop if the Chancellor does not cut ...
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Vatican: Pope receives Chancellor Scholz in private audience for the first time: Olaf Scholz visits the Vatican: It is the first time that a Pope has received a ...
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Quick Glance: Scholz Visits Pope: Important Private Audience in Rome
  • Pope Francis received Chancellor Scholz for a private audience at the Vatican.

  • The meeting involved discussions and exchange of gifts.

  • Topics such as peace, security, and migration were discussed.

  • Scholz also visits President Mattarella and attends a party congress.
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Ireland kitman Charlie O’Leary at 100: ‘You’d have to say to yourself, what did I do to deserve this?’
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Ireland kitman Charlie O’Leary at 100: ‘You’d have to say to yourself ...
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Answer to conservative critics: Pope Francis calls sexual pleasure a “gift from God”
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Answer to conservative critics: Pope Francis calls sexual pleasure a “gift ...
Quick Glance: Pope Francis on Sex: a Gift from God
  • Pope Francis openly discusses sex.

  • He appears to be responding to conservative critics.
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Pope clarifies blessings for same-sex couples: Pope Francis defended Friday the Catholic Church's recent approval of blessings for same-sex couples while ...
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Pope clarifies blessings for same-sex couples
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Wine is a gift from God, Pope Francis tells Italian producers: Pope tells industry leaders at the Vatican the drink is a ‘source of joy’, but encourages healthy ...
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Wine is a gift from God, Pope Francis tells Italian producers
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New Apostolic Nuncio to Korea appointed: Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Giovanni Gaspari as the 12th Apostolic Nuncio to Korea, the Catholic Bishops' ...
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New Apostolic Nuncio to Korea appointed
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The Vatican’s top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order
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The Vatican’s top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval ...
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Europe should boycott Alabama over nitrogen execution - peace group: A peace group with close ties to the Vatican said on Tuesday it will appeal to European ...
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Europe should boycott Alabama over nitrogen execution - peace group
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Friar Tech: The Vatican's top AI expert who advises Silicon Valley: It might seem like an oxymoron but the Vatican's top brain on the technology most ...
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Friar Tech: The Vatican's top AI expert who advises Silicon Valley
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Italy street artist, once a rebel with a brush, gets papal blessing: Street artist Mauro Pallotta has prepared seven cartoon-like drawings to illustrate themes ...
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Italy street artist, once a rebel with a brush, gets papal blessing
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Pope says LGBTQ+ blessings are for individuals, not approval of unions: Pope Francis on Friday defended a Vatican document on blessings for same-sex couples but ...
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Pope says LGBTQ+ blessings are for individuals, not approval of unions
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Pasta, paintings and an epiphany in Rome: A spur-of-the-moment pilgrimage to the Eternal City shows the true meaning of a forever friendship.
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Pasta, paintings and an epiphany in Rome
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Pope calls for ban on surrogacy, calling it ‘based on exploitation’: Pope Francis has called for a universal ban on surrogacy, calling the practice “deplorable” ...
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Pope calls for ban on surrogacy, calling it ‘based on exploitation’
Quick Glance: Pope Calls for Universal Ban on Surrogacy
  • Pope Francis called for a universal ban on the 'despicable' practice of surrogate motherhood and included the 'commercialization' of pregnancy as a threat to global peace and human dignity.

  • He lamented the increasing threat to peace, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, migration and climate crises, and the 'immoral' production of nuclear and conventional weapons.

  • He emphasized the need to protect the life of the unborn child and called for a global ban on surrogacy to prohibit this practice universally.

  • He called for the resumption of Iran nuclear talks 'as early as possible' to ensure a safer future for all.
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Salzburg's former archbishop Kothgasser dies: Alois Kothgasser died at the age of 86. He was Archbishop of Salzburg between 2003 and 2013 and previously Bishop ...
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Salzburg's former archbishop Kothgasser dies
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Pope defends support of same-sex couples: ‘The Lord blesses everyone’ : The Vatican's declaration last month allows priests to offer spontaneous ...
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Pope defends support of same-sex couples: ‘The Lord blesses everyone’