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Populists of a different kind: Pope Francis to meet with President Trump

VATICAN CITY – Oh, to be a fly on the wall. When Pope Francis meets with President Donald Trump at the Vatican at the end of this month, the world will be watching how the Argenti...

DATE: May 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope insists native people have rights over their lands

Francis says they must give consent for development

DATE: Feb 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope meets Palestinian leader

Vatican calls Jerusalem holy

DATE: Jan 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Mother Teresa: Saint despite spiritual ‘darkness’

Pope to canonize famous nun Sunday

DATE: Sep 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope calls for new work of mercy: Care for environment

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Thursday proposed that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform, taking his green agen...

DATE: Sep 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Religion

Retired pope thanks Francis for focus on mercy

Benedict steals show at unprecedented ceremony in Vatican

DATE: Jul 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Religion

Mother Teresa will become saint Sept. 4

VATICAN CITY – Mother Teresa will be made a saint Sept. 4. Pope Francis set the canonization date this week, paving the way for the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor to be...

DATE: Mar 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Religion

Italy’s Senate approves civil unions for gays

Groups upset bill doesn’t allow adoptions

DATE: Feb 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

What you need to know about pope’s Mexico trip

VATICAN CITY – History’s first Latin American pope began a weeklong trip to Mexico on Friday with plans to tour some of the most violent, poverty-stricken and peripheral places in the Americ...

DATE: Feb 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope’s sex-abuse panel removes survivor Peter Saunders

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis’ sex abuse advisory committee voted Saturday to sideline one of its members, a high-profile abuse survivor who had clashed with the commission over its mission. ...

DATE: Feb 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Historic step: Pope, Russia patriarch to meet in Cuba

VATICAN CITY – In an historic step to heal the 1,000-year schism that split Christianity, Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church will meet in Cuba next week in an attempt...

DATE: Feb 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Religion

Italy confirms higher cancer, death rates from mob dumping

Babies, especially, affected by the waste

DATE: Jan 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World