"It did me well to read it," said the pontiff.
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It's also another source of controversy for a pontiff who
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I was certainly thrilled to see the pontiff up close.
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Francis has yet to visit his home country as pontiff.
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He is the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
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It's not the first time Arnold played the Pontiff game.
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" For the progressive pontiff, such a reality makes us all "cruel.
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The pontiff has yet to clarify his position on the matter.
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Vatican tradition had called for the pontiff to eat by himself.
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As pontiff, Francis has been on both sides of these debates.
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John Malkovich also plays pontiff in "The New Pope" on HBO.
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The pontiff received a red-carpet welcome when he arrived in Geneva.
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It was hand delivered to the pontiff at the Vatican in February.
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Two years later, John Paul became the first pontiff to visit Cuba.
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In the past, the pontiff has expressed openness to discussing controversial issues.
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By one count, the pontiff made this point at least 56 times.
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Trump's gift for the pontiff was wrapped in a big blue box.
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CNN reported that Spicer was "eagerly anticipating the meeting" with the pontiff.
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It is easy enough to see what the pontiff has in mind.
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"Only peace is holy, and not war," the Argentine-born pontiff said.
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The pontiff subsequently replaced him as the leader of the Ferrara archdiocese.
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Francis became the first pontiff to celebrate Mass in the Arabian Peninsula.
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The pontiff is shown waving in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sept.
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The pontiff also joined in a standing ovation for some elderly holocaust survivors.
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In fact, he saw a certain resemblance between himself and the humble pontiff.
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But now suddenly this is perceived as being contrary to the Roman pontiff.
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So, what's a Pontiff gotta do to get you in this thing today???
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There is "fearfulness" in Europe, the pontiff said, according to his prepared remarks.
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"Babies have their own dialect," the 81-year-old pontiff said, according to NPR.
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Pope Francis is to begin his first visit to Mexico as pontiff on Friday.
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DiCaprio presents the pontiff with a book containing works by the painter Hieronymus Bosch.
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Pope Francis, who is the first Latin American pontiff, has tried to rebalance things.
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It could reveal how far this politically astute pontiff wants to transform his Church.
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The pontiff declared that the mobsters would end up in hell unless they repented.
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When the pontiff appeared on screen, "the room erupted in applause," the newspaper said.
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In the past, Trump and the pontiff have disagreed on issues including environmental protection.
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In Rome, the president will call upon Pope Francis, the popular, liberal-minded pontiff.
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Francis will have named almost half of the group since becoming pontiff in 2013.
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It is not that there is any real doubt about where the pontiff stands.
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The scandal came to a head when the Argentine pontiff visited Chile in January.
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In 14143, Francis's predecessor, Benedict, became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign.
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Twenty days later, the cardinals chose 65-year-old John Paul I as pontiff.
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Ms. Kirchner and the pontiff appeared to reconcile after he moved to the Vatican.
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The Argentine pontiff, Latin America's first pope, is currently on a visit to Panama.
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By the bishops' account of their session with the pontiff, they did not mince words.
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The pontiff had a private audience with 500 youths from the Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio.
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But like the late pontiff, the boxer endured his ailments gracefully, friends and family said.
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READ: Pope scolds person who pulled him down To his surprise, the Pontiff wrote back.
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The Pontiff appeared to miss a step as he was walking down from the altar.
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The boy's mother tried to wrangle him, but the pontiff said to let him play.
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The pontiff has said he will not comment on the case until it is over.
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Addressing French pilgrims and visitors in Rome, the pontiff told them he felt their pain.
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Records at the community show that the pontiff spent 23 days there in January 1980.
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"Once you're public, scrutiny goes up," said Jeffrey Pontiff, a finance professor at Boston College.
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Boston College finance professor Jeffrey Pontiff thinks Rubio's proposal could succeed in encouraging business investment.
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He said he had invited the Argentine-born pontiff to make the apology in Canada.
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Remarried parishioners should be able to feel part of the church community, the pontiff said.
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The pontiff said journalists should read the document carefully and decide for themselves about its credibility.
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The pontiff said the venue, a cemetery, was a fitting place for an anti-war speech.
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Maybe he understood that the Pontiff -- Latin for bridge-builder -- would join the battle of ideas.
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Viewed in that light, Francis is best understood as the first truly post-cold war pontiff.
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The promise of such change would normally guarantee the pontiff a wave of favorable media coverage.
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"At some point, the priest during the Mass says, 'Lift up your hearts,'" the pontiff said.
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Cardinal Zen suggested that the Vatican's Chinese delegation was getting out in front of the pontiff.
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The pontiff will deliver a homily in the monastery of an order of cloistered Carmelite nuns.
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Pope Francis, an Argentine, is the first pontiff to come from the world's less-developed south.
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The Pontiff could have used a little divine intervention before banging his head on his Popemobile.
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Many share Mr. Bannon's suspicion of Pope Francis as a dangerously misguided, and probably socialist, pontiff.
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The pontiff was nauseated with gastritis, fatigued by his 77 years, and loath to meet his maker.
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"Constituting an official commission that might study the question?" the pontiff asked, according to National Catholic Reporter.
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"OK, and you will plan my trip," joked the 81-year-old pontiff, clearly enjoying the exchange.
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The 82-year-old pontiff said this month he was afraid about the danger of nuclear war.
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The period, officially proclaimed by the pontiff as the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, will end on Sunday.
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On Saturday, the pontiff added a new app to his social media mix: The pope joined Instagram.
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"It's an honor that the Americans attack me," the pontiff said when asked about this by Seneze.
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Some actors talk about the effect of putting on the Pope's white robes to play the pontiff.
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But Saturday's visits with mudslide victims offered the pontiff a chance to distance himself from the controversy.
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On Sunday, the pontiff touted an app called ClickToPray ahead of the World Youth Day festival in Panama.
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On at least three occasions, adults fell to the feet of the pontiff, weeping and begging for help.
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Two Vatican investigators, a Maltese archbishop and a Spanish priest, have reported their extensive findings to the pontiff.
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He submitted his resignation on July 20th, but only on July 30th did the pontiff publicly accept it.
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Of course, the most alluring featuring of this particular Fiat 500 is that the pontiff was its passenger.
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His particular focus will be the 21922 who, were the pontiff to die tomorrow, would elect his successor.
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Pope Francis is making history yet again – this time becoming the first pontiff with a personal Instagram account.
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When the Pope visited Kenya in November, tweeters captioned pictures with jokes about the pontiff welcoming the president.
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Then, our international coverage takes us to Mexico, where Pope Francis is making his first visit as pontiff.
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Francis, in return, gave the President a medal of an olive tree, which the pontiff said symbolizes peace.
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But as recently as Wednesday, Mr. Sanders was still hopeful for a face-to-face with the pontiff.
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Progressives retreated, hoping for a liberal Pontiff to arrive soon and revive the world-embracing Vatican II spirit.
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While the pope and Trump are now at odds, the real estate developer had previously praised the pontiff.
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It seems the pontiff is really trying to win hearts and minds amongst the big dogs of tech.
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Donald Trump just went full bore on the Pope, saying the pontiff was "disgraceful" for questioning his faith.
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The president smiled hard next to the pope; the pontiff seemed to lighten up when he shook Mrs.
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The comments, which were reported by Vatican Radio, came as the pontiff baptized 28 babies at the Vatican.
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The pontiff will spend two days in predominantly Catholic Lithuania before moving on to Latvia and then Estonia.
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But can the 79-year-old pontiff appoint enough like-minded cardinals to ensure that his vision endures?
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Advocates for Francis hope that Archbishop Scicluna will now figure in opening up the eyes of another pontiff.
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Pius may be the protagonist, but Law's icy portrayal of this young pontiff definitely gives him an ominous feel.
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He is a political pontiff: during the Obama administration he helped to bring about talks between America and Cuba.
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It is a theme that the pontiff has hit on throughout his papacy, including at previous World Economic Forums.
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The Argentine pontiff will begin his trip in the Chilean capital of Santiago, then head to Temuco and Iquique.
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"I highlighted how he could help by issuing an apology," said Trudeau after meeting the pontiff at the Vatican.
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On April 15th the current pontiff called on Benedict to offer congratulations on the eve of his 92nd birthday.
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The president smiled broadly beside the pontiff, who appeared subdued and stone-faced before their 30-minute private conversation.
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In the cancer ward, a young patient sang a beautiful a capella version of "Ave Maria" to the pontiff.
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The Argentine pontiff helped the rapprochement between the United States and Cuba after more than five decades of estrangement.
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" The pontiff also quoted from the Old Testament: "Man is stupid, he is stubborn and he does not see.
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Will these justices listen to Christian teaching, especially as it has now been articulated by the pontiff in Rome?
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The background: Since 2013, when Benedict became the first pontiff in centuries to resign, he hasn't disappeared from view.
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The pontiff will not attend a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy due to a cold.
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America magazine reports that every pontiff since St. John XXIII has called for clemency for people condemned to death.
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" The pontiff said the world owed young people "a debt" as they've been deprived of "dignified and genuine work.
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It is the result of a Synod and not just a personal idea of the Pontiff, as some might think.
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The pontiff walked slowly down from his plane, smiled and shook hands with President Alain Berset and other Swiss officials.
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Judging by the pope's face in that photo, the pontiff certainly seems to think Trump is really quite something, too.
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In February, he described Pope Francis as "disgraceful", after the pontiff criticised Mr Trump's threat to deport 11m illegal immigrants.
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When discussing the pontiff, he said that the traffic caused by Pope Francis' visit to the country had angered him.
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" The pontiff had baptized 28 babies earlier in the mass — and called the sound of the crying infants a "concert.
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A statement from the Vatican said the pontiff received the letter of resignation a day earlier by the former archbishop.
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The pontiff, who is the spiritual leader of billions of Catholics, tied one's view of immigration with their Christian identity.
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Zuckerberg gave the pontiff a model of a Facebook drone designed to provide internet access to hard-to-reach locales.
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Bill was in St. Peter's Square Wednesday morning -- he'd been on vacation -- when he got an audience with the Pontiff.
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Yet it also shows the gap between a reformist pontiff and a Catholic country that has taken an illiberal turn.
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Under the late Pope John Paul, the first pontiff to visit a synagogue, the Vatican established diplomatic relations with Israel.
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"I also pray for the men of the crew of the Argentine military submarine which is missing," the pontiff said.
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" Trump immediately blasted back at the pontiff, and one of his aides noted that the Vatican was "surrounded by walls.
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In contrast, Pope John Paul II visited his native Poland in 733, less than a year after he became pontiff.
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The background: In 2013, Benedict became the first pontiff in centuries to resign, but he hasn't disappeared completely from view.
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A source told CNN that the pontiff advised Wuerl, a close ally, to consult with his priests about his future.
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The Pontiff called on the world's religious leaders to reject war, mentioning the conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Libya.
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Defending his leadership, the 81-year-old Argentine pontiff said the future of the Catholic Church was "on the street".
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The pontiff said during the presidential campaign that a man who thought about building walls and not bridges was "not Christian".
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Journalists on board were quick with their smartphones to take photos of the pontiff who shall henceforth be known as #SombreroPope.
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A statement said the pontiff took the step because Vallejo Balda, 55, had already served more than half of his sentence.
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The pontiff injected himself into the U.S. campaign during a conversation with reporters on his flight home from Mexico on Thursday.
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Ultimately, Ibarra said, it was a less pressured and more enjoyable experience than the last time he catered for a pontiff.
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He asserted his innocence and said the pontiff had given him leave of absence to return to Australia to defend himself.
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If he said to me, you're stating lies, you're attacking the office of the Roman pontiff, then that I would cease.
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But many had also told the pontiff that they had "psychological difficulty in collaborating with the bishop after years of conflict".
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"There are countries where plans are dictated by the fight against these people," the pontiff added, departing from his prepared text.
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Having made his case to the pontiff, even Cardinal Bo sought to soften the blow should Francis speak the Rohingya's name.
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"It's an honor that the Americans attack me," the pontiff reportedly said, while adding he had not yet read Seneze's book.
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The Lampedusa trip was Francis' first official outing as pontiff, and it was taken as a powerful message about his priorities.
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Francis has been notably more accepting of homosexuality in his role as the pontiff than past leaders of the Catholic Church.
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When we first see the rich Catholic Cardinal primed to be the supreme pontiff he's got mascara smeared under his eyes.
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As the pontiff greeted members of the public on New Year's Eve, one woman grabbed his hand with both of hers.
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Fernandez shares many of the pope's ideas on social justice and quoted the pontiff repeatedly in his inaugural address last month.
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Then there is the effigy of Pope Paul V (the pontiff in 1605) alongside banners reading "no popery" and flaming crosses.
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The 90-year-old former Pontiff has been living quietly at the Vatican since his surprise resignation as Pope in 2013.
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The whole concept of Donald Trump beefing with the pontiff is honestly fucking amazing—maybe Francis is the babyface this election needs.
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The pontiff argues that "useful and dignified employment" opportunities have dwindled, and implies that technology runs the risk of overriding human decency.
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Same-sex unions are in no way "similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family," the pontiff writes.
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But Catholic leaders say the pontiff will send an unmistakeable message when he travels to the border in Juarez, Mexico, on Wednesday.
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But the abiding images of the visit were of refugees in the Moria camp bursting into tears as they met the pontiff.
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Burke: I suppose it could be distilled in this way: There's a breakdown of the central teaching authority of the Roman pontiff.
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"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," the pontiff said.
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Kim told Moon of his wish to meet the pontiff during a meeting last month, South Korea's presidential office said last week.
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Rouhani's meeting with Pope Francis is the first between a pontiff and an Iranian leader since 1999, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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The pontiff can veto a candidate, for instance on ethical grounds, provided the Vatican presents evidence supporting such a decision to Beijing.
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While seven in 10 American Catholics still report having an overall "favorable" view of the pontiff, he's down 12 points from January.
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On the day after the election of Pope Francis in March 2013, the pontiff visited St. Mary Major Basilica at 8 a.m.
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Opponents to Pope Francis have seized on the accusations, which have until now been unsubstantiated, to weaken the 81-year-old pontiff.
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Francis is planning to visit Japan in November, which would make him the first pontiff to do so in nearly 40 years.
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"For me, China has always been a reference point of greatness," the 79-year-old pontiff told an Italian reporter in January.
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But the pontiff could also be welcomed with protests, threats of violence and controversy over allegations of abuses by the Catholic Church.
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Waiting for a glimpse of the pontiff, excited Catholics thronged around the Vatican's Bangkok embassy and St. Louis Hospital to take selfies.
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His first trip after becoming pontiff in 2013 was to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which, like Lesbos, has received thousands of refugees.
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Rihanna's ensemble was so on-theme, she sent Twitter into a frenzy, with one user saying she should replace Pope Francis as pontiff.
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Controversy over Barros, bishop of the city of Osorno in Chile's south, dominated a recent trip the Argentine pontiff made to South America.
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The head of Sweden's Lutheran church who welcomed the pontiff is a woman; the Swedish episcopate has also included an openly lesbian woman.
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The pontiff acknowledged that "with shame and repentance...we were not where we should have been" when it came to supporting the victims.
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The pontiff wants his message of reconciliation to resonate with the war victims and he urged his Church to help spread the message.
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"I think it's reached almost epic proportions when a regularly scheduled board meeting starts to take on almost pontiff-like expectations," Costolo said.
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Instagram founder Kevin Systrom had an audience with the pontiff on Friday to talk about the impact of digital imagery, Time magazine reported.
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On Wednesday, the photographer shared a photo of Obama meeting Pope Francis, following Trump's own face-to-face with pontiff in the Vatican.
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A public spat between Mr Trump and the pontiff (who chided the candidate for building walls rather than bridges) did nothing to help.
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Back in 2013, Trump complained on Twitter that he did not like seeing the pontiff standing in line to pay his hotel bill.
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He also blamed Pope Francis for traffic problems in Manila during a visit by the Pontiff -- a criticism for which he later apologized.
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On the campaign trail, Sanders has repeatedly praised the pontiff for his stance on climate change and his commitment to helping the poor.
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The Argentine pontiff made a surprise personal visit during a private tour of the Sistine Chapel he arranged for homeless people last March.
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A meeting with the Argentine pontiff could provide an electoral boost to Sanders, just days before the New York primary on April 19.
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In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País, Mr. Cruz described emotional exchanges during which the pontiff issued a deep personal apology.
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Francis is the one with the power to promulgate dogma, but Benedict, 92, is the first pontiff to resign since the 15th Century.
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POPE FRANCIS Pope Francis became the first pontiff to visit an Arab Gulf state after he landed today in the United Arab Emirates.
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"We must take responsibility for everything before God, our brothers and our creation," the pontiff added at his last public event of 2016.
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Pope Francis has been praised as a progressive pontiff, but on one subject he's decidedly old-school: the ordination of women as priests.
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To this day, Mr Maduro claims that by taking such a critical stance, the country's bishops are out of step with their own pontiff.
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Later he spoke on state television, clutching a crucifix, and said that the pontiff had given him several books and "personal reflections" to ponder.
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The Argentine pontiff, who had endeared himself to Catholics and non-Catholics alike with his benign informality and ascetic lifestyle, is on the defensive.
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Chatter on conservative blogs regularly accuses the Argentine pontiff of spreading doctrinal confusion and isolating those who see themselves as guardians of the faith.
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Even more awkwardly, the pontiff was personally responsible for assigning one of the priest's defenders, Bishop Juan Barros, to a new diocese in 2015.
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In return, the pontiff presented DiCaprio with a leather-bound version of his encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si,' along with two other items.
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Benedict resigned unexpectedly in 2013, becoming the first pontiff to step down for 600 years, and he has lived quietly in Rome since then.
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Vatican officials said the service had the heaviest security checks ever for a public event at Vatican City because of threats against the pontiff.
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Pope Francis went from Pontiff to Good Samaritan on a dime, after a police officer fell off her horse during a procession in Chile.
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Before the Pope traveled to Mexico, Trump cast the pontiff as a political naif who "doesn't understand the dangers" at the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at (504) 822-1111 or Detective Anthony Pontiff at (504) 658-6237.
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As anticipated, the country has been busying itself to receive the pontiff with road closure announcements, billboard ads, and stands that sell pope memorabilia.
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What the pontiff said, in sum, was that these ghastly deeds are symptomatic of a wider global conflict, whose root causes are not religious.
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NBC News reports the pontiff explained the commandment "You shall not kill" was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as for the innocent.
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Trump issued a statement, which he also read aloud during a campaign event, slamming the pontiff, calling him "disgraceful" for questioning a person's faith.
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"I appeal, particularly to governments, so that the causes of this scourge are confronted decisively and the victims are protected," the Argentine pontiff said.
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On Wednesday, Trump will see for himself if the pontiff is papal enough when he walks down the frescoed halls of the Apostolic Palace.
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As is customary, the Vatican has not announced if the pontiff will meet with survivors; but advised reporters the Pope might address the topic.
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When John Paul died the next year, Law was among bishops who presided at a memorial Mass for the pontiff in St. Peter's Basilica.
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Shortly after her visit with Pope Francis, Trump tweeted a photo, saying she was "humbled by the honor" to have visited with the pontiff.
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"Pope Francis has called on the world to say: 'No to a financial system that rules rather than serves'," Sanders said, quoting the pontiff.
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But while he may avoid any awkward encounters with leaders in Argentina, the coming trip will still put the pontiff in some uncomfortable situations.
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The complex was announced in February following a visit by Pope Francis to the UAE, the first by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula.
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Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American who has been repeatedly demoted by Francis, has been the de facto leader of the dissent against the pontiff.
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Images from the Pope's tour of the pontiff flanked by Arab sheikhs in traditional robes were considered a striking display of Muslim-Christian kinship.
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The pontiff will spend three days in the UAE's capital, Abu Dhabi, where he will attend an interreligious conference with Jewish and Christian leaders.
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The pontiff continued that the womea who he expected would continue to be known as Mother Teresa set an example to volunteers around the world.
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Since then, the pontiff has accepted the resignations of five bishops and church insiders have said he will be considering more in the coming weeks.
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At a speech on papal authority earlier this year, Raymond Burke, an American cardinal in Rome, said it was legitimate to reject a misguided pontiff.
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His first trip after he became pontiff in 2013 was to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which, like Lesbos, has received many thousands of migrants.
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DIMINISHING DICTATORSHIP Cuba's insular policies began to thaw a bit in 1998, when Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the nation.
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The 80-year-old Argentinian pontiff also pointed to the Bible while discussing his Holy sleep habits, which include going to bed at 9 p.m.
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The popular pontiff, who turned 81 on Sunday, blew out the single birthday candle on his extra-long pizza during a celebration at the Vatican.
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Hope Hicks, Trump's communications adviser; Keith Schiller, his former bodyguard; and Dan Scavino, his social media master, all stood solemnly as Trump greeted the Pontiff.
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"Never before has there been such a clear need for science to be at the service of a new global ecological equilibrium," the pontiff said.
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When you look at the context, it becomes clear that the pontiff is using the word "justice" in the broadest and most ambitious of senses.
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And he barred his first press secretary Sean Spicer from a meeting with the Pope, despite knowing of his long desire to meet the Pontiff.
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Amid a spiraling sexual abuse crisis that has threatened the pontificate of Pope Francis, America's top Roman Catholic prelates met with the pontiff on Thursday.
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Since the European migrant crisis of 2015, the pontiff has consistently promoted the need to welcome refugees, who he believes have been exploited by nationalists.
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The Argentine pontiff, saying mass in the central plains city of Villavicencio, told his listeners that the Bible celebrates women who were strong and influential.
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While the pontiff remains extremely popular in many circles, questions about his leadership have swirled since the abuse crisis began engulfing the church in 2018.
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The pope's picks are consistent with his mission to diversify the ranks of the cardinals, the church authorities who will choose the next pontiff. 22008.
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Pope Francis, the first pontiff to hail from the Americas, is wrapping up a six-day swing through Mexico, the second-most-populous Catholic nation.
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The visitors declared afterwards that they had stressed their absolute loyalty to the pontiff, and that he in turn had expressed his "full trust" in them.
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The Argentine pontiff previously played a role in rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, who restored diplomatic relations last year after a 54-year break.
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His first trip after he became pontiff in 2013 was to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which, like Lesbos, has received hundreds of thousands of migrants.
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Fake news and journalism for peace", the pontiff called on followers to denounce "snake-tactics" employed by fake news writers who can "strike at any time.
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I know... On Saturday night, the pontiff tweeted that the Virgin Mary was the most influential woman, and therefore, the first "influencer" on behalf of God.
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The end of Pope Francis' visit to Mexico took a political tone on Wednesday as the pontiff celebrated Mass in the border town of Ciudad Juarez.
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The pontiff apologized for being unable to meet Sanders, saying it would have conflicted with his trip to meet migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Immediately following his meeting with Kirill, the pontiff will fly to Mexico for a weeklong tour that will take him once again to uncharted papal territory.
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Turning the liturgy into a ragtime piece, Mr Lehrer tells Catholics they can "do whatever steps you want if you have cleared them with the Pontiff".
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The pontiff stars in a 50-second spot that will be shown to tens of thousands of fans in Houston's NRG Stadium early in the game.
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On the other hand, this reference to a "certain stability" is probably one of the more generous things any pontiff has said about non-traditional partnerships.
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The Vatican is already hosting two migrant families, and in his remarks the pontiff said he hoped his visit would bring attention to the refugees' struggle.
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As prefect, he served Pope John Paul II as a kind of theologian-in-chief, and was known, on occasion, to gently correct even the Pontiff.
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The aging anti-Communist pontiff stood beside the aging Communist leader, who had abandoned his military uniform for the occasion in favor of a dark suit.
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The cathedral first opened in 1879, and Pope Francis became the fourth pontiff to visit, in September 2015, during his first trip to the United States.
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"At some point, the priest during the Mass says, 'Lift up your hearts,'" the pontiff remarked during a general audience at St. Peter's Square this week.
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Jobs must be created for people whose livelihood harms the environment so they will not see it as their only means of survival, the pontiff added.
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I took to heart one bit of advice for pilgrims from Pope Francis, the pontiff who claimed the name of a 12th-century pauper and mystic.
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The pontiff sparked controversy when he defended embattled Chilean Bishop Juan Barros -- who is accused of covering up sex abuse by his mentor Father Fernando Karadima.
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A spokesman for Pinera said he will meet the pontiff at the Vatican during a tour of France, Spain, Germany and Belgium that begins on Friday.
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When her family met with Pope Francis in February at the Vatican, the Pontiff reportedly described Bibi as a "martyr," according to ACN President Alessandro Mondeduro.
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Can the 79-year-old pontiff appoint enough like-minded cardinals to ensure that his vision of the Roman Catholic Church will endure after he dies?
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The pontiff is on a three-country tour of Africa, where he plans to emphasize the continent's role in the future of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Apology from Pope Francis: The pontiff suggested he had lost patience after slapping away a woman who grabbed him in a receiving line at the Vatican.
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Francis, making his 20th foreign trip since becoming pontiff in 2013 and his fifth to his native Latin America, started his visit in Colombian capital Bogota.
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Latin America's first pope has yet to return home to Argentina as pontiff despite visiting much of the region since his election nearly five years ago.
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Pope Francis — whose broad appeal has made him a hero not just for Catholics but for the secular world as well — remains a well-liked pontiff.
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In a startling admission for a sitting pontiff, Pope Francis acknowledged to a biographer that he used to visit a psychoanalyst every week when he was 42.
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Francis, the former cardinal-archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected in such a conclave on March 13, 2013 as the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years.
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But the billionaire and the pontiff both seem to believe — on some evidence — that a little troublemaking is the best way to make the disaffected pay attention.
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All eyes were on the Vatican on Wednesday when Trump, along with members of his family and political inner circle, shared a private audience with the pontiff.
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Then the pontiff radically changed his view after he invited to the Vatican abuse survivors, including one who had lobbied the Vatican for years to take action.
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Benedict stepped down as pope in 2013, becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, leaving behind a Church tainted with scandals and snarled by mismanagement.
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Plus, we can all agree that he'll never endorse same-sex marriage (nor will any pontiff in our lifetime), although he has now tacitly backed civil unions.
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Hispanic and liberal Catholics love the present pontiff for his support for migrants and the global South; conservatives yearn for the metaphysical certainties offered by his predecessors.
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It was the latest in a string of meetings the pontiff has held with Silicon Valley leaders, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet's boss Eric Schmidt.
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This comes as decades&apos old claims of sexual abuse including one involving an 11-year-old boy prompted the Pontiff to strip McCarrick of his ministry.
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The two embraced and kissed on the cheek as the pontiff welcomed Abbas to a library in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace for a private, 20-minute meeting.
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The second installment of the limited series will be retitled The New Pope, and will enlist a brand new pontiff of the Catholic Church, according to Variety.
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But the German pontiff went out of his way to engage in respectful theological dialogue with Jewish interlocutors and on balance his papacy is seen as positive.
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Trump slightly backpedaled in his fight with the Pontiff, blaming Mexico instead for somehow pushing the Pope to call out Trump for wanting to build a wall.
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"It's in the hands of the justice system and one cannot judge before the justice system ... After the justice system speaks, I will speak," the pontiff said.
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Francis approved the decrees on Tuesday confirming miracles attributed to the intercession of the former pontiff and the Salvadoran archbishop, the Holy See said in a statement.
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A meeting with the Argentine pontiff could provide an electoral boost to Sanders, who has trailed former Secretary of State Clinton in support among America's Catholic Democrats.
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Though Pope Francis accepted his resignation, the pontiff defended him as a model bishop and named him the caretaker of the archdiocese until a successor was named.
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No pontiff had ever paid such a tribute to the rich, 12th century man who gave his wealth to the poor and became a beggar for Christ.
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One must recall that, on the campaign trail, Trump called the pontiff "disgraceful" for having questioned his faith in response to his plans for a border wall.
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"In times of crisis, we lack judgment, and that is a constant reference for me," the pontiff said in an in-depth interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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The Argentine-born pontiff excused himself for using such terms in order to get his point across while answering a question about the correct use of the media.
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However on March 29th, he published his own impressions of the meeting, complete with some lengthy direct "quotes" that reflected his memory of what the pontiff had said.
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Self-described "Hood Pope" A$AP Ferg is trying to one-up the real Pontiff with a crucifix-inspired grill with just about every color in the rainbow.
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President Trump The President and the Pontiff met up at the Vatican this morning, in the third leg of Donald Trump's first overseas trip as commander in chief.
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The pontiff has been a vocal advocate for aiding refugees, particularly those fleeing the violence in Syria, deeming it both a "moral imperative" and "Christian duty" to help.
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Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, is a former archbishop of Buenos Aires but he has not visited his home country since he became pope in 2013.
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Auguste Comte and his fellow nineteenth-century positivists envisioned a Grand Pontiff of Humanity who would preside alongside scientist-priests; unfortunately, scientists at the time were practicing phrenology.
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Despite the shadow of controversy because of the clergy sexual abuse crisis, the trip is a coming home of sorts for Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff.
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But after his meeting with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on February 12th, some were left wondering whether the pontiff had rushed in where angels fear to tread.
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Their spiritual guru is American cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, who stepped up attacks on Francis after the pontiff demoted him from a senior Vatican post several years ago.
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For all his efforts to reform the church, the pontiff long failed to understand the gravity of the scandal that most threatened the church and his other priorities.
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Standing next to the pontiff as he spoke that day in January 2018 was Greg Burke, the Vatican communications director, whose counsel he had not solicited before speaking.
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According to the Catholic News Service, in his youth, the pontiff ran tests in a chemical laboratory, swept floors as a janitor, and worked as a bar bouncer.
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Mr. Flynn was also on hand in 1979 when Pope John Paul II rode onto the field, and he recalled that rainy skies lifted when the pontiff arrived.
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Pope John Paul II was visiting Washington; when CBS said that it didn't have a spare camera crew, Mr. Volcker's spokesman persuaded the network to abandon the pontiff.
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"A living Church can look back on history and acknowledge a fair share of male authoritarianism, domination, various forms of enslavement, abuse and sexist violence," the pontiff said.
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Appointing new cardinals is one of the most significant powers of the papacy, allowing a pontiff to put his stamp on the future of the 1.2 billion-member Church.
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Biden, who met privately with Francis on Friday, also thanked the pontiff for his spiritual counsel to his family after his son, Beau, succumbed to brain cancer last year.
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Now religious stores and roadside stands all over the country still sell coffee mugs, t-shirts, and any other kind of paraphernalia imaginable with images of the dead pontiff.
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On one hand, the Irish republic is much less Catholic than it was in 1979 when a previous pontiff, John Paul II, toured the island and electrified its people.
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Twitter lit up the minute she hit the carpet with praise for the pop star's interpretation of the theme, even joking she should now replace Pope Francis as pontiff.
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Bishop Juan Jose Pineda Fasquelle announced the pontiff had accepted his resignation in an open letter, saying his departure would allow him more time for prayer and personal development.
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On his first European tour since sanctions against Iran were lifted, Rouhani also met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he asked that the pontiff pray for him.
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The pontiff seemed open to the possibility of ordaining women to the rank of deacon: in other words to a form, at least in the loose sense, of priesthood.
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"The flow of capital cannot decide the flow of people," the Argentine pontiff said, denouncing "the exploitation of employees as if they were objects to be used and discarded".
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Representatives of several religions met the Argentine pontiff at the Vatican and listened to an address in which he said their work must begin by "rolling up our sleeves".
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Panama is 88% Catholic, according to the Vatican, and despite the shadow of controversy, this is a coming home of sorts for Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff.
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This isn't the first time that the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church has spoken out about the dangers of interfering with human interaction when it's time to mangiamo.
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The 79-year-old pontiff is in a race against time to appoint enough like-minded cardinals to ensure that his vision of the church endures after he dies.
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Nyusi greeted the pope at Maputo airport, where the 82-year-old pontiff, arriving after a 10-hour flight from Rome, was treated to displays of dancing and singing.
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By the end of his coming trip, the pontiff will have visited every country that borders Argentina, with the exception of Uruguay, plus three additional countries on the continent.
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In a new interview with Variety, Sorrentino points out that The Young Pope ended with Law's character going into a coma so the church has chosen a replacement pontiff.
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Because of that, activists were relieved when Mr. Fernández reiterated his intention to push for decriminalizing abortion shortly after he met with the pontiff in the Vatican last month.
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She, like others in the crowd, was separated by a white barrier from the pontiff, who was proceeding through the square along with a team of security and lieutenants.
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The Pontiff is scheduled to meet with Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and visit a number of memorial sites, according to a statement from the Vatican.
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He returned to the press office to defend the late pontiff, who he argued had not grasped the gravity and breadth of the sex abuse scandal in the church.
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Pope Francis: The pope arrived in the United Arab Emirates for a three-day visit, becoming the first pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
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Pope Francis started a landmark, three-day visit to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, becoming the first pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
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The Argentine pontiff made his first remarks at the presidential palace, La Moneda, an unusual choice because the pope usually talks about sexual abuse to Church leaders and not politicians.
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In December 2014, he called Diego Neria Lejérraga, a transgender man from Plasencia, Spain, who had written the pontiff to say he felt "left out" and "rejected" by the church.
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The minority—perhaps a third of the total—who strongly support the reformist pontiff see this as an opportunity to make his case for a broader definition of "life" issues.
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IN THE world of conservative Catholics, bent on proving that the current pontiff is a theologically dubious innovator, it feels as though Pope Francis has just given them fresh ammunition.
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What activists are now calling the "season of creation" will conclude on October 4th which is the day of Saint Francis of Assisi, from whom the pontiff takes his name.
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This will be a hard road for a pontiff with a deep calling to reach out to the powerless who heads an institution with a terrible record of abusing power.
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The 22,000-word Gaudete et Exsultate ("Rejoice and Be Glad"), a type of papal document known as an apostolic exhortation, represents a reiteration of Pope Francis's core values as pontiff.
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On his way back to Rome from a 5-day trip to Mexico earlier this month the pontiff criticized Trump's plans to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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A spokesman for Francis sought on Friday to tone down the controversy, insisting the pontiff was not making a personal attack on Trump or any statement about the U.S. election.
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Pope Francis has notably not made him a cardinal, which critics say signals that the pontiff may believe that other bishops are more aligned with his direction for the church.
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ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis made his first visit as pontiff to a synagogue on Sunday, where, in a reference to Islamist attacks, he condemned violence in the name of religion.
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The Vatican announced on Thursday that the pontiff revised the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the church's written summarization of its teachings, to categorically oppose capital punishment in all circumstances.
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Every day for the past two weeks, the popular pontiff has been treating Rome's homeless to a summer escape that includes a trip to the beach and a pizza dinner.
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Cardinal Sarah, who is responsible for worship and liturgy at the Holy See, is more or less loyal to Francis, but many traditionalists hope he will be the next pontiff.
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It's fascinating to see Wenders bring that curiosity to "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word," a documentary profile of a pontiff who's responsible for tending the souls of millions.
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Will the pendulum swing back, as Francis's nervous allies fear, leaving his legacy to be buried by young traditionalists and a reactionary pontiff in the style of HBO's "Young Pope"?
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"Some minutes ago you told me that God is the God of liberty," Pope Francis said, turning to look at Mr. Sisi, who sat on stage next to the pontiff.
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If Vigano's allegation is true, it indicates that the pontiff has been complicit, via his silence, in covering up activity that should have been immediately referred to local law enforcement.
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Friendly media coverage casts the pontiff as a man of the center, an ecclesiastical equivalent of Angela Merkel or Barack Obama or David Cameron, menaced by authoritarians to his right.
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But Pope Francis, the greenest pontiff to date, has ultimate control over the Vatican Bank's $3bn-worth of assets—and a bully pulpit to exercise moral suasion over much more.
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It all started when the pair, Paula Podest Ruiz and Carlos Ciuffardi Ellorriaga, began chatting with the pontiff when they were seated next to him during a group photo shoot.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Father Ernest Simoni, a 88-year-old Albanian, was watching Pope Francis on television this month when, to his astonishment, he heard the pontiff mention his name.
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However, like when Michael Jordan famously said "Republicans buy sneakers too," the pontiff knows that baseball fans can be Catholic, and that some of those Catholics love the Chicago Cubs.
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Naming new cardinals is one of the most significant powers of the papacy, allowing a pontiff to put his stamp on the future of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
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The pontiff waved to onlookers from his car as he arrived at WCC headquarters in Geneva for the prayer service in a modern hall with lattice woodwork and stained-glass windows.
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This sense of parental betrayal is reflected in his relationship with his mentor, Cardinal Michael Spencer (James Cromwell), whom he upstages during conclave, stealing his chance to be elected High Pontiff.
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The pontiff will travel south, to the state of Chiapas, which has become a focal point for the migrant crisis that has challenged the Mexican government and people in recent years.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will make a trip to Egypt next month, the Vatican said on Saturday, giving the pontiff another opportunity to promote better relations between Catholics and Muslims.
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Italian newswire ANSA reports that the pontiff will make his Instagram debut on March 19 using the account name Franciscus, citing a Vatican Radio interview with Holy See spokesman Dario Viganò.
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It has been announced that the service will include indigenous languages, and that the pontiff wants to draw attention to a population often living in extreme poverty and facing daily racism.
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Along with her father and stepmother Melania, Trump met Pope Francis on Wednesday morning, and Pompei said she told the trafficking victims the pontiff was "a great advocate for your stories".
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"The more powerful you are, the more your actions will have an impact on people, the more responsible you are to act humbly," said the pontiff, while seated at a desk.
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The pontiff said in a letter to the Chilean church&aposs Episcopal Conference that he is "impressed by the reflection, discernment and decisions" taken by bishops when they met last week.
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An Alitalia flight carrying the Argentine pontiff landed at the Catam military air base in Bogota and will head to the Vatican Embassy after being greeted by President Juan Manuel Santos.
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The pontiff left Colombia on an Avianca flight to Rome after watching a "cumbia" troupe perform traditional coastal singing and dancing with President Juan Manuel Santos and his wife, Maria Clemencia.
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Last month, Wuerl told priests in his archdiocese that Francis had asked him to pray, reflect, and consult with his subordinates about his fate before the pontiff made a final decision.
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The military's power was clear on Monday when Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, demanded to meet Pope Francis before Sun Kyi, upending a schedule that had her meeting the pontiff first.
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Washington (CNN)It was a small moment, buried in the news of President Trump's brief audience yesterday at the Vatican with the Pope: the pontiff blessed first lady Melania Trump's rosary.
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This week the 82-year-old pontiff is keeping that promise, making only his second trip to sub-Saharan Africa, which is by far the biggest area of expansion for Christianity.
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For many supporters of Francis, Benedict's status casts an unwelcome shadow over Francis and gives license and comfort to his enemies, though the former pontiff has kept a very low profile.
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Fernandez, who met with Pope Francis in the Vatican on Friday, said that the Argentine pontiff had promised "to do everything he can to help us" resolve the country's debt situation.
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But one young Mexican felt the whole brunt of papal wrath when he almost pulled the 79-year-old pontiff to the ground in an over-eager bout of religious exuberance.
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The film — "inspired by true events," as an opening title reads — depicts the election of John Paul's successor, Benedict XVI; Benedict's shocking resignation; and the election of the current pontiff, Francis.
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Baltimore Archbishop William Lori was bearing gifts when he hit up Rome this week ... handing the pontiff his very own "Francis #8" jersey with Jackson and John Harbaugh's signatures on it!!!
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Ticona says the accusations were disproven after they first emerged in 2011 and have "resurfaced as slander in an attempt to attack" the pope by "sectors that are hostile" to the pontiff.
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignations of two more Chilean bishops, the latest fallout from a sex abuse scandal whose scope and gravity were initially underestimated by the pontiff.
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The Polish pontiff visited Mexico fives times during his more than 26 years of papacy, and many Mexicans believed nowhere else in the world had captured his affection to the same degree.
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The pope had chided Mr Trump for his plan to build a wall on the border with Mexico—it was "not Christian", the pontiff said—and Mr Trump responded with characteristic imprudence.
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IQUIQUE, Chile (Reuters) - Pope Francis ordered his popemobile to stop on Thursday after a mounted Chilean policewoman was thrown off her frightened horse, which had reared up as the pontiff passed by.
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He can show remorse, though, sending a letter of apology to the Pope last year after he cursed the Pontiff for the traffic he caused during a January visit to the country.
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Zuckerberg said he gave the Argentine pontiff a model of Aquila, Facebook's lightweight solar-powered drone aimed at beaming lasers to extend internet access to places that have yet to be connected.
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The McCarrick case posed a test of the pontiff&aposs recently declared resolve to battle what he called a "culture of cover-up" of similar abuses in the Catholic church&aposs hierarchy.
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The revelations posed a test to the pontiff&aposs recently declared resolve to battle what he called a "culture of cover-up" of similar abuse in the Catholic&aposs church&aposs hierarchy.
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Noel Diaz, 59, told the pope of his rags-to-riches story when the pontiff came to the back section of the plane to greet journalists as it was flying to Cuba.
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The pontiff was then introduced to members of Trump's delegation, including his wife Melania, his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as aides Hope Hicks and Dan Scavino.
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The order's chaplain is Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, an American whom the pope demoted from a senior Vatican position in 2014 and who has been a leading conservative critic of the pontiff.
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At the last event of a packed day, the Argentine pontiff said Mass for a crowd estimated by Colombian authorities at just over a million people in Bogota's sprawling Simon Bolivar Park.
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Father Antonio Spadaro, who has interviewed the pope several times and written books about him, tweeted a picture of the 80-year-old pontiff emerging from the red-and-white plastic stall.
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But it was the subject of immigration that dominated the discussion, with the pontiff also taking aim at the response of some European governments to migrants and refugees arriving on the continent.
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The sexual abuse scandal has undermined Pope Francis' once-soaring popularity in the United States, with a poll released on Tuesday showing that support for the pontiff has dropped precipitously among Americans.
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Several Catholic lay people in Canada, including some who have worked within the church, say they believe the pontiff is following the advice of the Canadian bishops, who generally oppose the idea.
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Traveling in Ireland not long after, Pope Francis was called on to resign by a prominent former Church official who claimed the pontiff knew about the McCarrick allegations before they went public.
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"Honor of a lifetime to meet His Holiness Pope Francis," Mr. Trump wrote at one point, offering an electronic olive branch to the pontiff with whom he had feuded during the campaign.
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The pontiff refused to address by name the Rohingya Muslims, the victims of an ethnic cleansing campaign at the hands of Myanmar authorities, during a visit to the country on Tuesday morning.
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Not long after Francis' election, Vatican ambassadors briefed the pontiff about various situations around the world and suggested that he be especially careful when appointing bishops and cardinals in the United States.
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" The pontiff called for prayer and penance, fasting by the faithful, and decried a culture of clericalism, which he said "helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today.
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Blunt talk from Pope Francis: In a speech in the United Arab Emirates, the pontiff mentioned the war in Yemen and called on Gulf countries to extend citizenship rights to religious minorities.
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Pope Francis has met with a group of Korean Protestants while on a trip to Geneva to promote Christian unity, symbolizing the pontiff&aposs hopes for cooperation and unity on the Korean Peninsula.
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Kim told Moon, a Catholic, of his wish to meet the pontiff during a meeting last month and the South Korean leader announced before the trip that he would be relaying a message.
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"I'm taking it and it does me good," he told the pontiff during a brief encounter prior to the Vatican City meeting on economic and social issues, a sort of Vatican think tank.
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The pontiff once said that Trump was "not a Christian" due to his comments about building a wall on the Mexican border — though he never said that Catholics should not vote for Trump.
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"I heard the president speak: he presents himself as someone who is pro-life", the pontiff said on September 11th, during an in-flight press conference en route from Colombia to the Vatican.
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The groups' chaplain is American Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, an American whom the pope demoted from a senior Vatican position in 2014 and who has been a leading conservative critic of the pontiff.
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The pontiff will sit down with Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, for a private 15-minute meeting in the Vatican on Friday, according to a person familiar with the arrangements.
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The Argentine-born pontiff, 80, reserved his toughest words of condemnation for the wave of "fundamentalist-inspired terrorism" in 2016, listing attacks by Islamist militants in Europe, Africa, Asia and the United States.
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The pontiff was criticized on his recent trip to Chile for defending Bishop Juan Barros, who is accused of knowing about the actions of a priest who abused young boys in his care.
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The Vatican under John Paul II was not very keen on the United States hierarchy's new policy against priests, and the pontiff certainly didn't want to throw his own bishops under the bus.
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A former top-ranking Vatican official released a 123,212-word letter asserting that the pontiff knew about the abuses of a now-disgraced American prelate, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, years before they became public.
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But in private, even Benedict's most adamant supporters express frustration with him for quitting and allowing the election of Francis, a more pastoral, less doctrinaire pontiff who they think is ruining the church.
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I wonder what both Francises, saint and pontiff, might make of "Heavenly Bodies," the Metropolitan Museum of Art's colossal, hotly debated and richly anointed exhibition on the interweaving of fashion and Roman Catholicism.
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Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, has struggled to repair the Church's image amid damning allegations of sexual abuse by religious officials across the world.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - When Pope Francis came through Tokyo this week, I got the chance to see my second pontiff and was surprised with a second blessing - both humbling but also very different experiences.
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Trump himself offended Catholics during the campaign when he lashed out at Pope Francis after the pontiff criticized his plan to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep immigrants out.
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Instead, the bishops spoke about John Paul II, the late Polish-born pontiff who holds an iconic status in Poland for his role in inspiring the nation to stand up to communist rule.
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A 2016 paper by the academics Jeffrey Pontiff and David McLean kicked the tyres of 96 separate investment "factors" and discovered that their market-beating returns on average halved after they became known.
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The statement from O'Malley on Saturday implicitly criticising the pope was even more remarkable because O'Malley heads a papal commission advising the pontiff on how to root out sexual abuse in the Church.
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If he exercises his unilateralism in the progressive direction, what's to stop an archconservative successor from doing likewise, until the total mood of the church becomes indistinguishable from that of its current pontiff?
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A brief Vatican statement on Tuesday gave no reason for the resignation of Libero Milone, saying merely that he had presented it on Monday to Pope Francis and that the pontiff had accepted it.
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In a meeting with 11 YouTube stars on Sunday, the pontiff discussed how digital stars can "harness their influence in helping promote tolerance, empathy, and understanding on the web," YouTube said in a release.
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On one such occasion in the mid 1990s he decided that the Vatican could no longer keep quiet about the pope's evidently failing health and disclosed that the pontiff was suffering from Parkinson's disease.
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The pontiff is known for his easygoing demeanor and close interactions with his followers but his usually friendly face took on a stern expression as he reprimanded the crowd member at a Mexican stadium.
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It was at least the third time the Vatican has issued statements distancing itself from Scalfari's articles about the pope, including one in 2014 in which the journalist said the pontiff had abolished sin.
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Have the pope and Mr Obama, who have maintained a cordial relationship since the pontiff helped to bring about talks between the American and Cuban government, hurt Mr Trump's presidential ambition with their remarks?
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Before the Pope left for Mexico, Trump called Francis "a very political person" and suggested that the pontiff, who celebrated Mass Wednesday near the U.S.-Mexican border, was a pawn of the Mexican government.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Catholics and several thousand Muslims attended an unprecedented public celebration of Mass on Tuesday by Pope Francis, the first pontiff in history to visit the Arabian Peninsula.
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Despite Wenders having abandoned Catholicism half a century ago, the documentary he wound up making is not a Michael Moore-style, nor even a more subtle Errol Morris-style takedown of the supreme pontiff.
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After initially giving Pell sweeping powers, the pontiff later clipped his wings when other departments accused him of an overbearing manner and of being condescending to the Italian-dominated Curia, the Church's central administration.
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Critics accuse Francis, who became pontiff in 2013, of responding much too slowly to the sex scandals, of failing to empathize with the victims and of blindly believing the word of his fellow clergy.
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The military's power was clear on Monday when its leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, demanded to meet the pope before Sun Kyi, upending the planned schedule, which had her meeting the pontiff first.
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Mora says Francis, as the first Latin American pontiff, understands the barriers Rodriguez and Venegas have had to break through to speak out and the vulnerabilities they live with every day for doing so.
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In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI presented Mr. Benson and his wife with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal for outstanding service to the church and the pontiff, the highest papal award granted to laypeople.
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The trip was his first to Romania — and the first by a pontiff since John Paul II visited 20 years ago — and Francis sought to mend relations between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.
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The current pontiff, Pope Francis, has tried to bridge this divide, calling for the church to be more inclusive, while upholding church teachings that prohibit gay marriage and ordaining women as priests or deacons.
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In a nation increasingly divided, one figure can still inspire solidarity among Poles: The man born Karol Jozef Wojtyla, who, in 1978, became John Paul II, the first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years.
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When her family met with Pope Francis in February at the Vatican, the Pontiff reportedly described Bibi as a "martyr," according to Alessandro Mondeduro, president of the charity Aid to the Church in Need.
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A prolific writer, Tettamanzi helped Pope John Paul draft some of his encyclicals and was seen by some Vatican watchers as a potential candidate to replace the Polish pontiff when he died in 2005.
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"The Two Popes" is really three movies: a behind-the-scenes tale of Vatican politics, a mini-biopic about the current pontiff, and a two-man study of friendship, rivalry and major British acting.
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For example, in remarks on his way home from Egypt in April, the pontiff dismayed critics of the Maduro regime by saying "the opposition is divided", implying that this was an obstacle to political progress.
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" Late Wednesday, the pontiff publicly criticized the candidate when he suggested that Trump's plan to deport undocumented immigrants and build a wall between the U.S and Mexico was an indicator that he "is not Christian.
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Upset by the progressive direction Pope Francis has taken the church since his election in 2013, the person wondered whether it was a sin to pray for the pontiff to abdicate, or even, to die.
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Another recent article, on the pope in Africa, describes a stand-off between the pontiff and a Nigerian diocese where a bishop-elect was seen as an ethnic and linguistic outsider ("Stony ground", September 7th).
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The pontiff last month called for a radical change of attitude towards immigrants, saying they should be welcomed with dignity and denouncing the "populist rhetoric" he said was fuelling fear and selfishness in rich countries.
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Francis, making his 20th foreign trip as pontiff and his fifth to his native Latin America, will spend five days in the country, visiting the capital Bogota and the cities of Villavicencio, Medellin and Cartagena.
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Traveling from Colombia back to Rome, the pontiff took questions from a diverse cast of reporters and didn't hold back in continuing to level criticism at Trump, a foil of his for a while now.
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The commander in chief made worldwide headlines after he was photographed next to the serious-looking pontiff alongside wife Melania and daughter Ivanka, who donned long-sleeved black dresses and veils for the "stiff" visit.
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Pope Francis Trump called Pope Francis a "wonderful guy" after the pontiff said Thursday the candidate is "not Christian" if he wants to deport undocumented immigrants and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Trump, midway through his grueling nine-day maiden international journey, called upon the pontiff at the Vatican early Wednesday where the two had a private 30-minute meeting laden with religious symbolism and ancient protocol.
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The agency, which is controlled by the Vatican, said the rebellious priests should "reflect on the grave damage inflicted on the Church" through their "unreasonable actions opposing a bishop legitimately appointed by the Supreme Pontiff".
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The pontiff, who has made the defense of migrants a key pillar of his five-year papacy, has repeatedly called for decisive action to solve political problems causing many to flee from their home countries.
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No pontiff has ever visited North Korea, whose totalitarian government cracks down on religious activities, instead promoting a personality cult around Mr. Kim and his father and grandfather, who ruled the country as godlike figures.
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The resignation of Monsignor Vigano, a close aide to the pope, represented another setback in what has been a difficult stretch for the 81-year-old pontiff, who just completed his fifth year in office.
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The Vatican: While Pope Francis champions refugees and migrants around the world, anti-immigration politicians have found increasing support among once-powerful conservative Catholic figures who have been sidelined within the church by the pontiff.
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" Francis paid tribute on Sunday to John XXIII, saying that the pontiff, who was canonized in 2014, had "worked tirelessly to promote fraternal cooperation between all Christians" and to support "the development of ecumenical relationships.
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Pope Francis said on Tuesday that he was "pained and ashamed" over the "irreparable damage" priests had inflicted on minors, as he offered Chileans an apology during his first visit to their country as pontiff.
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After the pontiff addressed the United Nations General Assembly in 1003, he donated his diamond-encrusted papal ring and diamond and emerald cross to the U.N., so they could be sold to help the poor.
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And tellingly for a pontiff with a tense relationship with conservative opponents in the United States, he has again passed over America's traditional feeder schools for the College of Cardinals, especially those occupied by conservatives.
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The pontiff has declared zero tolerance for the abuse that has plagued the Church for decades, but critics say he has not done enough, particularly in holding bishops responsible for mishandling or covering up misconduct.
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But the Argentine pontiff clearly believes that emphasizing a poor church ministering to the world's outcasts is a more authentic, appealing — and ultimately evangelizing — global message than a defense of orthodoxy and Europe's Christian roots.
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The pontiff himself sees the three-week Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon as a logical outcome of his passionate belief in giving centre stage to people and places that were hitherto considered marginal.
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It's the first time a pontiff has visited the Gulf state and Francis was greeted with an artillery salute and aircraft trailing yellow and white smoke through the sky in honor of the Vatican flag.
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After slaying Pontiff Sulyvahn the following area looks so familiar, yet different, and as you ascend up a familiar spiral staircase the realization hits in that, yep, you're back in the legendary city once more.
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A relic containing a piece of cloth stained with a drop of Pope John Paul II's blood was stolen from its perch — at the base of a statue of the late pontiff — in Cologne Cathedral.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Pope Francis will visit Colombia in the first quarter of next year, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Thursday, days after signing a peace deal with Marxist rebels which the pontiff has actively backed.
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The pontiff was referring to a sweet bread usually filled with nuts (but can also include poppyseed, cottage cheese, hazelnut, chocolate, honey or other ingredients) from her homeland — and not "pizza," as some onlookers mistakenly heard.
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For conservatives who want to present themselves as anti-Francis but loyal (perhaps more loyal than the pontiff himself) to the Catholic tradition, Benedict's presence in the Vatican city is, at a minimum, a golden opportunity.
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The famously humble Pontiff, 79, caused concern Thursday when he tripped and fell after apparently missing a step while leading a celebratory Mass in Czestochowa in honor of Poland's 1,050th anniversary of becoming a Catholic country.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to visit South Sudan to preach peace in the country embroiled in inter-ethnic and political strife, religious leaders said after talks with the pontiff on Thursday.
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Before Sanders returns to New York ahead of its Tuesday primary, and before the pontiff left for Greece to visit the frontline of the immigration crisis, the two met face-to-face at the papal residence.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged Colombians skeptical of a peace deal with guerrillas to be open to reconciliation with those who have repented, speaking hours after a top rebel leader asked the pontiff for forgiveness.
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Cardinal Müller, an ideological conservative often at odds with the pontiff, was vexed by the order, and, in a recent interview, said he had made a case, in vain, for the priests to stay in Rome.
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As publicity about the visit began to build two weeks ago, Father Saad took the plunge and officially applied to legalize his new church, hoping to capitalize on the wave of good will toward the pontiff.
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When Benedict became the first pontiff to resign since Gregory XII in 1415, his vow to remain hidden seemed a guarantee that he would keep to his refurbished Vatican convent and stay out of Francis' way.
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VATICAN CITY, March 28 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday that tests carried out in the residence where Pope Francis lives showed that the 83-year-old pontiff and his closest aides do not have coronavirus.
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Announced in late August ahead of a visit by Pope Francis, it was seen as a temporary concession by both sides to the pontiff who had come to promote an end to the country's multiple conflicts.
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Civil war or not, it is no secret that Pope Francis is under open challenge from conservatives, led by America's Cardinal Raymond Burke, or that the relatively liberal camp around the current pontiff is holding its ground.
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With "Episode 3" of The Young Pope, it feels as though we're finally getting somewhere in terms of learning what exactly the titular pontiff (Jude Law) is up to, or at least the motivations behind his actions.
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The British Vatican expert Austen Ivereigh, a biographer of Pope Francis, wrote this week in Crux news service that Donald Trump's programme implied "slamming a truck" into the geopolitical objectives of the pontiff in two important respects.
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The difficulty faced by Francis, and the ace held by his critics, is that one pontiff cannot easily alter the line laid down by a previous one without appearing to undermine the whole authority of the papacy.
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Then her commission, with backing from the pontiff, proposed a simple procedural change: it should be agreed that all letters from abuse survivors, to the CDF or other Vatican agencies, should at least receive a decent acknowledgement.
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The pontiff stressed Panama's central place in the vision of Spanish America's anti-colonial hero, Simón Bolívar, who hoped for a "Patria Grande", or greater homeland, based on amity, freedom and respect for diversity across the continent.
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Pope Francis arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, becoming the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam, amid efforts by the Vatican to promote tolerance and peace with the Muslim world.
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The Argentine-born pontiff, who in his 2014 address said the Italian-dominated Curia suffered from "spiritual Alzheimer's", listed 12 guidelines to reform including better coordination, dedication to service and openness to "the signs of the times".
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He agreed that his pope was a stark contrast to the approach of the Vatican's current pontiff, Pope Francis, but said there was no reason the Catholic church could not have his type of leader in future.
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Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said all faiths in the country are able to worship freely following a meeting Monday with Francis after the pontiff arrived in Myanmar for his first trip to the staunchly Buddhist country.
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How long can conservative Catholics persist in waiting for such a pope, and in telling one another — as they've been doing, rather miserably, of late — to obey the church of 2,000 years rather than the current pontiff?
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Amid chanting of psalms in Hebrew and speeches underscoring the remarkable advances in Catholic-Jewish relations in the past 50 years, Francis became the third pontiff to visit Rome's main synagogue, after popes John Paul and Benedict.
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The pontiff, speaking at a conference in Rome, said the Catholic Church needed to accept responsibility "before God, victims and public opinion" for its own sex abuse scandals, but wanted to share the lessons it had learned.
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The former top-ranking Vatican official released a 7,000-word letter asserting that the pontiff knew about the abuses of a now-disgraced American prelate, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and failed to take action (The New York Times).
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The Argentine pontiff, who generally has taken a more socially progressive line on gender issues than his predecessors, told Vatican judges "there can be no confusion between the family God wants and any other type of union".
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will say the first Mass by a pontiff on the Arabian peninsula in February and visit one of its largest mosques when he travels to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
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Three years ago, the archbishop arranged a personal meeting between the pontiff and Kim Davis, a county clerk from Kentucky who became a heroine to social conservatives by refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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The Pontiff was down in Vatican City Tuesday, ready to ring in the new year with a line of adoring fans and worshippers -- many of whom he was happily greeting and shaking hands with along his route.
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Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith spoke of his frustrations just hours before he was due to meet Pope Francis and show the pontiff a video with graphic images of the April 21 attacks on three churches and four hotels.
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And he said he's cool with Pope Francis again, claiming that the pontiff had "corrected" the statement the next day (his spokesman had said only that it wasn't a "personal attack" and he wasn't looking to influence voters).
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The beef began when a journalist aboard the papal plane asked the pontiff about some of Trump's statements on immigration; Francis replied that if Trump really advocates the anti-immigration policies the journalist mentioned, he's not a Christian.
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During the 15-minute meeting, DiCaprio presented the pontiff with a check from his environmental philanthropy foundation for the Pope to use for charity works, and gifted him with a book containing works by the painter Hieronymus Bosch.
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At his last public event of the year, an evening vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica, the pontiff said that humanity had "wasted and wounded" the year "in many ways with works of death, with lies and injustices".
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LIMA (Reuters) - Pope Francis arrived in Peru on Thursday, as President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski appealed to the pontiff to help put the country back on track after a political crisis nearly ousted him from office a month ago.
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Cardinal Joseph Zen, the outspoken former bishop of Hong Kong, has said the Vatican was "selling out" the Catholic Church in China and suggested that there was discord between the pontiff and Vatican diplomats doing groundwork in China.
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Immigrants should not be rejected out of hand as unworthy rivals but given a "responsible and dignified welcome," particularly those fleeing war, the pontiff said in a lengthy address to participants of a conference on migration in Rome.
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In mid-2014, he hand-delivered letters from Francis to President Obama and President Raúl Castro, in which the pontiff urged them to reach an agreement that would end more than half a century of Cold War acrimony.
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"I ask the Holy Spirit to sustain us throughout these days, and to help us to turn this evil into an opportunity for awareness and purification," the pontiff said in his opening remarks, according to a news release.
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The semantic flexibility — saying migration instead of ethnic cleansing, Muslims of Rakhine State instead of Rohingya — has introduced a degree of diplomatic absurdity to the visit, especially for a pontiff who has a reputation for speaking his mind.
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Many of them are hoping to use the sex abuse crisis that amounts to the greatest existential threat to the church in centuries to topple the 81-year-old pontiff, who they are convinced is destroying the faith.
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Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the New World, has sought to realign the church's priorities in political discourse, and has often prioritized economic and environmental issues over divisive cultural ones such as abortion and same-sex marriage.
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At a reception for many of the 400 firefighters who extinguished Monday's blaze, President Emmanuel Macron said he had spoken to Pope Francis by phone and that the pontiff would visit France "at a time of his convenience".
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - When Pope John Paul II made the first visit by a pontiff to Ireland in 1979, contraception and divorce were still illegal and the Catholic Church's influence on a deeply conservative society was near-total.
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According to newspaper reports in many countries, the Argentine pontiff has just changed the Lord's Prayer, the supplication beginning with the words "Our Father" which was taught by Jesus Christ and is used by just about all his followers.
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Since Pope Francis became pontiff in 2013 emissaries have shuttled between Beijing and Rome, hoping to devise a mechanism to ensure that no future bishop can be appointed without the blessing of both the pope and the Chinese government.
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Speaking in his native Spanish before bishops inside Mexico City's main cathedral earlier on Saturday, the Argentine-born pontiff urged religious leaders to do more to help migrants, "pouring balm on their injured feet" through social and charity programs.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans should battle against corruption and grisly drug gang violence, Pope Francis urged on Wednesday, just days before he is set to make his first tour of some of Mexico's most violence-scarred regions as pontiff.
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Our conversation turned to the Francis era, in which the "euphoria" has arguably reappeared, as controversies that John Paul II tried to close — over divorce and remarriage, intercommunion with Protestants, married priests — have been reopened by the new pontiff.
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However, the Vatican said the trip -- the first ever by a sitting Pontiff -- was organized before the refugee crisis occurred, and was never considered a "refugee trip," like the Pope's visit to the Greek island of Lesbos last year.
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The Holy Synod, the ruling body of the Greek Orthodox Church, said in a statement it wanted the pontiff to visit Lesbos, the Aegean island where hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have arrived in the past year.
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Both were naturally timid men who were thrust to the forefront of history by the convulsive political and social changes of the 22005th century and both had a lasting influence on the current pontiff, Francis, Latin America's first pope.
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The pontiff was an important player in starting secret negotiations between the United States and Cuba that initially led to the end of another Cold War-era conflict when the two countries agreed to restart diplomatic relations in 2014.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Saturday that tests carried out in the building where Pope Francis lives after one resident tested positive for coronavirus showed that the pontiff and his closest aides do not have the disease.
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VATICAN CITY, May 1 (Reuters) - A group of Roman Catholic priests, academics and intellectuals have issued an open letter to bishops asking them to declare Pope Francis a heretic, in the latest broadside by ultra-conservatives against the pontiff.
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Francis, who is making the first trip by a pontiff to Japan since 1981, used visits over the weekend to the only cities ever hit by atomic bombs - Hiroshima and Nagasaki - to underscore his campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.
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The general had demanded to meet with Pope Francis before the pontiff saw Myanmar's de facto leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate whose reputation has suffered for her failure to forcefully condemn the killings.
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Speaking to reporters aboard the plane returning to Rome from Bangladesh, the pontiff also indicated that he had been firm with Myanmar's military leaders in private meetings about the need for them to respect the rights of Rohingya refugees.
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According to the Polish pontiff, people who divorce and remarry in a civil ceremony (but remain wedded to their first spouses in the church's view) can only take communion on one condition: that their new marriages are completely devoid of sex.
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Pope Francis on Thursday received an invitation to visit North Korea and the pontiff indicated he would consider making what would be a landmark trip to a nation known for severe restrictions on religious practice, according to South Korean officials.
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After Pope Francis and Donald Trump's war of words Thursday, that saw the pontiff call the GOP contender's Christianity into question over his insistence of a wall on the Mexican border, Trump scurried to point out the Vatican's own walls.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is expected to make an official trip to Thailand in November ahead of an already announced visit to Japan, becoming the first pontiff in nearly four decades to go to either country, Vatican sources say.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis will make the first trip by a pontiff in 10 years to the tiny Mediterranean island nation of Malta in May, where he is expected to defend the rights of migrants trying to reach Europe.
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"Together with all the members of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian Region, especially those from Ecuador, I follow with concern what is happening in the last few weeks in that country," the pontiff said before weekly Angelus prayers.
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"We do not want any type of violence whatsoever to restrict or destroy one more life," added the pontiff, who delayed visiting Colombia until a peace deal between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels was in effect.
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Last Friday, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez met the pope and the pontiff, who lived through a previous debt crisis when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, had promised him to do everything he could to help with the current one.
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The pontiff who made a politically charged visit to the United States-Mexico border on Wednesday is the same one who in 2014 stopped in Bethlehem to pray at the graffiti-covered wall dividing the Palestinian city from Israeli-controlled Jerusalem.
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Vatican insiders say the two were prompted to leave by a disagreement over whether the papal spokesman should have direct, informal access to the pontiff or have to go through a new "super ministry" responsible for the Holy See's media activities.
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Francis said former Pope Benedict dissolved a religious order of women shortly after his election as pontiff in 2005 "because slavery had become part of it (the religious order), even sexual slavery on the part of priests and the founder".
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ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday awarded medals to American actors Richard Gere and George Clooney and actress Salma Hayek at an event held at the Vatican to promote the work of a foundation inspired by the pontiff, Scholas Occurrentes.
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The Pope in Mexico The Pope's comments on Trump came on his way home from an emotional trip to Mexico, where the first Latin American pontiff was greeted by boisterous crowds that often burst into songs or tears as he approached.
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In many of its pronouncements (going back to Pope Benedict as well as the current pontiff) the Vatican seemed harsher in its view of the sins of the business world than in its attitude to governments and inter-governmental bodies.
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The pontiff said that there was a need to "work with determination to build a world without nuclear weapons", speaking from the window of the papal apartment overlooking St. Peter's Square and citing his 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si (Praised Be).
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Speaking to thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square for his Sunday address, the pontiff expressed his sorrow and asked the worshippers to join him in a prayer for the dozens of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.
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After the conclave that culminated in his election, on the way to his inaugural Mass at the Sistine Chapel, he made sure to be photographed handling his own baggage, looking more like a tourist or a pilgrim than a Pontiff.
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"What gives me the greatest joy, everyday, is being able to look outside and see God's creation, maybe a little bit from his perspective," Randy Bresnik, an American member of the crew, told the pontiff during the call on Thursday.
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When viewers are moved to act — like the two members of Polish parliament who stormed a museum, rolled the fake meteorite off the sculpture of John Paul II, and attempted to stand the prone pontiff up — Cattelan achieves his intended goal.
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In the meantime, ideological enemies of the pope within the church declared open war on Francis in 2018 and weaponized the sexual abuse scandal to weaken a pontiff who they are convinced is leading the church astray by diluting doctrine.
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He was worshiping in a chapel at the John Paul II Center in Krakow, a sprawling complex where relics of the former pontiff are displayed, including the clothes he was wearing when nearly killed by an assassin's bullet in 1981.
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For example, a much-talked-about paper by R. David McLean of Georgetown University and Jeffrey Pontiff of Boston College published last year pointed out that the effectiveness of stock market investing strategies seems to diminish, but not disappear, after publication.
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After strong backlash, Pope Francis sent a Vatican sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate, and spokeswoman Paloma Garcia Ovejero insists that the pontiff does not have a blind spot when it comes to abuse by members of the clergy.
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In 2016, the government created a Ministry of Tolerance, and 2019 was branded the Year of Tolerance, kicked off in February by a much-heralded visit from Pope Francis, the first time a pontiff has set foot on the Arabian Peninsula.
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The Pope is also facing criticism from the Vatican's former ambassador to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who says the pontiff was made aware of alleged sexual abuse by McCarrick as early as 2013 and failed to act.
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Francis' five-day trip to Poland has taken place in the shadow of the Polish pontiff, who has cult-like status in Poland for his role in inspiring his native country to stand up to communist rule in the 1980s.
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She'd like to see Wuerl step aside, even if he's vindicated, in support of "radical change" in how the church handles the scandal, and she'd like to see more action and a push for more transparency from the pontiff, she said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the auxiliary bishop of Santiago just 24 days after the pontiff appointed him to the post, and weeks after the bishop made comments about the lack of women at the Last Supper.
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Italy's interior minister, Matteo Salvini, who is also leader of the far-right-wing League party, has criticized the pope in the past, once saying the pontiff should take in migrants in the Vatican if he was so concerned about them.
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Pope Francis has yet to officially weigh in on the saga, but has been rocked by accusations from a rival archbishop who claimed the pontiff knew of McCarrick's behavior and went so far as to demand he resign from the papacy.
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday he would not respond to explosive accusations by a former top Vatican official that the pontiff had covered up sexual abuse, saying dismissively that the document containing the allegations "speaks for itself".
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday received an invitation to visit North Korea and the pontiff indicated he would consider making what would be a landmark trip to a nation known for severe restrictions on religious practice, according to South Korean officials.
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In this April 11, 1979 file photo, Pope John Paul II wears a typical Sombrero "Charro" he was given by a member of the band from Monterrey, Mexico's Boy's Town, which performed for the Pontiff in St. Peter's Square during general audience.
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Francis, making his 20th foreign trip as pontiff and his fifth to his native Latin America, will spend five days in Colombia to encourage a peace process that ended half a century of war between the state and the guerrilla group FARC.
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But there is a growing danger that this pontiff may be remembered less as a valiant reformer and moderniser than as a pope who shrank from being as tough on predatory paedophiles and complicit bishops as he was with fogeys in the Vatican.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Pope Francis arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, the first visit by a pontiff to the Arabian Peninsula, where he will meet with Muslim and political leaders and celebrate an outdoor mass in the capital Abu Dhabi.
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During his 15-minute meeting with the Pope, DiCaprio gifted the pontiff with a book containing works by Bosch as well as a check from his environmental philanthropy for him to use for charity works "close to your heart," reports the Associated Press.
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"It would have been something that I would've kicked myself for years to come if I did not accept this invitation, so I'm happy to be here," Sanders said, adding that he and the Argentinian pontiff share many of the same principles.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A group of 19 Catholic priests and academics have urged bishops to denounce Pope Francis as a heretic, in the latest ultra-conservative broadside against the pontiff over a range of topics from communion for the divorced to religious diversity.
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"In the midst of many conflicts," the pontiff said, "I would like to highlight an initiative that can be described as historic and that is good news: in these days, after 20 years, the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea are talking of peace."
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday became the first pontiff to set foot on the Arabian Peninsula, just hours after issuing his strongest condemnation yet of the war in Yemen, where his host the United Arab Emirates has a leading military role.
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Addressing a young crowd at a university in Rome on Friday, the 80-year-old pontiff improvised a speech warning against the dangers of dinners without dialogue and calling on young people to participate in family meals — rather than text through them.
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Vargas-Lopez was released on bond in March 2014, three days after his then-10-year-old daughter, U.S.-born Jersey Vargas, made a plea to the pope as part of a delegation delivering letters to the pontiff from children of illegal immigrants.
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He stressed the "need to comply" with civil law, including mandatory reporting of abuse against minors and said Pope Francis understands how "these crimes can shake the faith and spirit of believers" and that the pontiff wanted to "root out this tragic horror".
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Despite this, the president was full of praise for the pontiff on Wednesday: According to reporters present when the pair were initially introduced, the pope was not his usual cheery self — and this was obvious from the official photos of the meeting.
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ROME — The archbishop who accused Pope Francis of covering up a cardinal's sexual misconduct has escalated his offensive with new, detailed accusations that put increasing pressure on a pontiff who the archbishop and his supporters say has misled the faithful and should resign.
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The explosion of conservative Catholic blogs — many in the United States — in an era of lightning-fast modern media, as well as the strategically timed release of the letter combined to make a potent rear-guard action against the 81-year-old pontiff.
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He said that no one in the Vatican had second-guessed the pope's decision to avoid mentioning the Rohingya or considered pulling the plug on the visit, which even the pope's supporters consider a tactical blunder for a usually politically sure-footed pontiff.
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In September 2013, Francis sent a letter to Mr. Scalfari, later published in La Repubblica, in which the pontiff wrote that atheists should "abide by their own conscience" and said that Christians should engage in "a sincere and rigorous dialogue" with nonbelievers.
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"When 'family' becomes the decisive criterion for what we consider right and good, we end up justifying and even 'consecrating' practices that lead to the culture of privilege and exclusion: favoritism, patronage and - as a consequence - corruption," the pontiff said in his homily.
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Pope Francis arrives in Mexico on Friday for a highly anticipated tour of the country, but the timing is complicated by local reports of Zika virus infections, raising questions about whether the large crowds drawn to the pontiff will fuel an outbreak.
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When Benedict in 2013 became the first pontiff since Gregory XII in 1415 to resign, his vow to stay "hidden to the world" seemed a guarantee that he would keep to his refurbished Vatican convent and stay out of his successor's way.
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In fact, Mr. Burke, an American, rarely had significant access to the pontiff, who keeps a small circle of special advisers, or to the Vatican power players who often kept the press office out of decisions critical to the pope's message and agenda.
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Its unsubstantiated allegations and personal attacks amounted to an extraordinary public declaration of war against Francis' papacy at perhaps its most vulnerable moment, intended to unseat a pope whose predecessor, Benedict XVI, was the first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years.
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However, although direct criticism of the Argentine-born pontiff is rarely heard, Polish Roman Catholic bishops publicly disagree with his views on issues such as homosexuals and divorce, in an echo of conservative concerns elsewhere that he threatens to dilute Church teachings.
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The women traditionally need to be the queens of a "Most Catholic Majesty" or Rex Catholicissimus – either as consort or in their own right as regnant – a title given to Catholic monarchs by the pope and is considered hereditary unless taken away by the pontiff.
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So when Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former papal nuncio to the United States, accused the pope of covering up the predations of a once-powerful American cardinal and called for the pontiff to resign, some conservative bishops saw an opportunity to strike back.
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Last Friday, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez met Pope Francis and said the pontiff, who is also Argentine and lived through a previous debt crisis when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires, had promised him to do everything he could to help with the current one.
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"May [God] sustain the efforts of those who are actively working to bring comfort and relief to the civilian population in beloved Syria, who are greatly suffering from a war that does not cease to sow horror and death," the pontiff said, according to BBC.
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They note that the country's most eminent prelate, Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, is a personal friend of the pontiff who was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2016 and took administrative responsibility for the all-important archdiocese of Caracas a few months ago.
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In a paragraph that can be read several different ways, the pontiff writes: We need to acknowledge the great variety of family situations that can offer a certain stability, but de facto or same-sex unions, for example, may not simply be equated with marriage.
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday he would not respond to explosive accusations by a former top Vatican official that the pontiff had covered up sexual abuse, saying dismissively that the document containing the allegations "speaks for itself".
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Francis, who in 2015 became the first pontiff ever to address Congress, has become embroiled in the controversy after an archbishop, Carlo Maria Viganò, proffered charges that Francis had turned a blind eye toward sexual misconduct by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington.
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He entered a small elevator taking him to the third floor of the Apostolic Palace and, after a long ceremonial walk past frescoed corridors, shook the pope's hand at the entrance to the private study that the frugal pontiff uses only for official occasions.
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BE FRONT-LINE PRIESTS On Tuesday morning, the Argentine pontiff urged priests not to be resigned to evils around them like drug trafficking, and not to remain entrenched in their churches, but rather to head out to the front lines to help those suffering.
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Festing, backed by conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke, had stood up to the pope, saying the pontiff, who pushed for von Boselager's reinstatement, could not intervene in the internal affairs of the Rome-based institution that has sovereign status and is run like a small country.
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MEDELLÍN, Colombia — Pope Francis concluded his trip to Colombia on Sunday by visiting the bones of a 17th-century Roman Catholic saint who devoted his life to helping slaves, and whose legacy the pontiff called an example to all for his defense of the poor.
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The report that one of the pope's top advisers had personally handed him the letter has revived accusations by advocates for abuse victims that the 81-year-old pontiff cannot, or will not, understand an issue that has long roiled the Roman Catholic Church.
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After the pope's tense years of grappling with his church's sexual abuse crisis and tussles with conservative clergy, the trip to Mozambique, followed by visits to the islands of Madagascar and Mauritius, may offer Francis a chance to be the pontiff he wanted to be.
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Francis spoke to the bishops at a modern shrine to the memory of the late Pope John Paul and built on a site of a stone quarry on the outskirts of Krakow where German occupiers forced the future pontiff to work during World War Two.
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Priests who are credibly shown to abuse children should be thrown out of the pulpit and identified to civil authority; bishops who cover up their actions should be laicized and exposed, and the order to do so must come from the top, from the pontiff.
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"'The Two Popes' is really three movies: a behind-the-scenes tale of Vatican politics, a mini-biopic about the current pontiff, and a two-man study of friendship, rivalry and major British acting," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
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For Francis to resign so quickly after Benedict, therefore, would set a discomfiting new precedent for the Catholic Church: that the papacy is no longer an automatic lifelong role, which could, in turn, weaken the Catholic tradition that the pontiff is, fundamentally, chosen by God.
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But I think the announcement, while certainly timed to the close of the jubilee year and not to the US presidential election, when combined with other statements by Pope Francis, could be read as the pontiff reflecting on some Catholics' decision to vote for Donald Trump.
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HAVANA — Pope Francis on Friday became the first pontiff to ever meet a patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, as the two Christian leaders set aside centuries of division in a historic encounter that was held in an unlikely setting: a room at the Havana airport.
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Although no changes to Catholic teaching regarding women or sexual minorities have been made, with the assistance of a very well-oiled PR machine, the Pontiff has nonetheless become a kind of media-darling, referenced as a benign moral authority, Dalai Llama-like, by ostensibly secular liberals.
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He was overruled, and Pope John sent him in early 1959 to Venice, Padua and Bergamo to give a series of addresses aimed at easing apprehensions about the proposed council and countering the impression in certain quarters that the new pontiff was a bit of a bumpkin.
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But in a varyingly sophisticated, spiritual and questionable analysis of the fake news epidemic, the 81-year-old pontiff tried on the cap of contemporary media critic to address an issue that has wreaked havoc and undermined democracies from the United States to Europe and beyond.
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That history, and some inconsistencies in accounts of the events Archbishop Viganò described, have prompted questions about how concerned he really is about the handling of Cardinal McCarrick and whether he is more interested in using the case as a cudgel against a pontiff he opposes.
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John Paul II, the first non-Italian pontiff in four and a half centuries, rode a historic wave of popularity and became a global symbol of resistance to communism during the Cold War, and in Dublin he drew what was called the largest crowd in Irish history.
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Some Vatican analysts suggested that the cardinal played a useful role for Francis, perhaps as an ideological bad cop to his pastoral good cop, or as someone who provided political cover to protect the pontiff from conservative critics worried about the dissolution of the church's orthodoxy.
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Conservatives promptly denounced what they called an illegal annexation and ideological purging by a power-obsessed pontiff, while liberal observers saw the whole episode as resulting from an act of subterfuge by the pope's most public critic within the Vatican hierarchy, Cardinal Raymond Burke, an American.
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Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN)Pope Francis became the first pontiff to celebrate Mass in the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam, on Tuesday, delivering an address to tens of thousands of people in Abu Dhabi at the end of a historic visit to the United Arab Emirates.
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"What am I going to tell a pope?" he asked CNN's Erica Hill Wednesday morning, when she questioned if he had a message for the pontiff after the Vatican declined to comment on the damning report about sexual abuse by priests and other clergy in the state.
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Francis delivered the traditional papal "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message to tens of thousands of people in a sunny St. Peter's Square from the same basilica balcony where he first appeared as pontiff shortly after his election on March 13, 2013.
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PEOPLE has a first look at the footage from this memorable meeting, which includes like minds connecting over concern for the environment and DiCaprio's charmingly rehearsed Italian greeting to the pontiff: "Your Holiness, thank you for granting me this private audience with you," the actor, 41, says in Italian.
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Ever since the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower every American leader has met the pontiff, with great fanfare, and dispatched a Catholic bigwig to be ambassador to the Holy See: Mr Trump has chosen Callista Gingrich, the current wife of Newt Gingrich, a serially divorced former Speaker of the House.
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Francis was having the brief talks in Cuba before heading off on a five-day visit to Mexico, where the pontiff will bring a message of solidarity with the victims of drug violence, human trafficking and discrimination to some of that country's most violent and poverty-stricken regions.
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When John Paul II visited Athens in 2001, it was one of his hardest foreign trips; he was grudgingly received by the then Archbishop of Athens, Christodoulos, who gave him a public scolding over the sacking of Constantinople in 1204 by Latin soldiers, for which the pontiff apologised.
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On his first day in the job, the new pontiff demands Cherry Coke Zero at breakfast, scolds an elderly nun for kissing his forehead, bans the use of his image on merchandise and refuses to be properly seen or photographed in public, even when he delivers his inaugural homily.
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News Analysis ROME — As a clamor builds for Pope Francis to respond to the stunning allegations by his former ambassador in Washington that he covered up abuse and lied about a meeting with a prominent opponent to same-sex marriage, the pontiff has extolled the virtues of silence.
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Salvini made no mention of any divisions but focused on what unites the right, playing up Europe's shared Christian heritage and hailed the legacy of conservative Roman Catholic Pope, John Paul II. The crowd booed when he mentioned the current pontiff, Pope Francis, who has strongly defended migrant rights.
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When the Supreme Pontiff is allowing argument to flourish and public division to increase, it does no good for institutions to pretend that none of this is happening — as though the average Catholic will somehow not notice that the leaders of the church are increasingly opposed to one another.
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For many of the pope's ideological opponents in and around the Vatican, who are fearful of a pontiff they consider outwardly avuncular but internally a ruthless wielder of absolute political power, this angry moment in history is an opportunity to derail what they see as a disastrous papal agenda.
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Pope Francis signals that women will not be ordained as priests anytime soon Pope Francis signals that women will not be ordained as priests anytime soon Pope Francis has been praised as a progressive pontiff, but on one subject he's decidedly old-school: the ordination of women as priests.
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On Friday, as is his tradition, the pontiff addressed the Roman Curia, the main governing body of the Catholic Church, and announced—between a celebration of Advent, a few biblical quotes, and a critique of some of the world's other woes—that he would not protect priests guilty of sex abuse.
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These latest comments follow a pattern of inflammatory statements from the Philippine president: "Pope, son of a whore" Last November Duterte called Pope Francis a "son of a whore" — his favorite insult — for the simple reason that the pontiff made Manila's already terrible traffic even worse during his official visit.
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ROME — A Chilean survivor of clerical sex abuse has said that Pope Francis told him in a private meeting this month that God had made him gay and that both God and the pontiff loved him that way, a remarkable expression of inclusion for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
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TOKYO — In the first visit to Japan by a pontiff in 38 years, Pope Francis on Monday edged close to calling for the renunciation of all nuclear power in a country that experienced the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl but has yet to determine a viable alternative for its energy needs.
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Supporters of Donald J. Trump were quick to suggest on Thursday that Pope Francis was being hypocritical to criticize as un-Christian Mr. Trump's proposal to build a wall between the United States and Mexico because the pontiff himself lives in Vatican City, a small state with sturdy walls of its own.
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Kim told Moon, a Catholic, of his wish to meet the pontiff during a meeting last month and the South Korean leader announced before the trip that he would be relaying a message.. According to the president's office, Francis expressed his strong support for efforts to bring peace to the Korean peninsula.
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For example, the pontiff has been a big booster of efforts by a Rome-based Catholic charity and the Waldensian Evangelical Church to bring Syrian refugees to Italy on special flights known as "humanitarian corridors" so that those fleeing war won&apost have to risk their lives at the hands of migrant traffickers.
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Ever since Trump signed his now-on-hold executive order last month banning refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., the pontiff has been quietly subtweeting the president with reminders that all people — regardless of their "nationality, social extraction or religion" — should be treated with love and acceptance.
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According to a Vatican announcement, the pontiff had "ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to remain in a house yet to be indicated to him, for a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial".
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And last year he welcomed to the Vatican Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al Azhar, a 1,000-year-old mosque and university that is revered by Sunni Muslims In Egypt, the pontiff is to visit with Mr. Sisi; the leadership of the Coptic Orthodox Church; and the grand imam.
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Pope Francis replaced a conservative archbishop, a sign that the pontiff is still intent on changing the church's ideological direction in the U.S. Archbishop Charles Chaput, who was appointed to the position in Philadelphia by Pope Benedict XVI in 2011, was often at odds with Francis' mission to move beyond the culture wars.
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Critics had been asking why a pontiff who so often condemned injustice against the downtrodden had stayed silent earlier in the week, when he made his first visit to Myanmar, a country in which Rohingya Muslims have been raped, killed or driven into exile in Bangladesh by a brutal military campaign of repression.
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Pope Francis, who has been under pressure over priest sexual-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, delivered a message of humility and faith to the crowds that came to hear his mass (delivered in Italian and translated to Arabic and English) or to cheer on the pontiff as he made the rounds in his Popemobile.
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He was in New York to introduce "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word," his documentary exploring the life and philosophy of the Argentine pontiff, but found time nonetheless for a detour to the museum's sprawling exhibit, which occupies several galleries at its Fifth Avenue address as well as the stone-and-stained-glass Cloisters.
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But at the same time (as those same conservatives might have argued under Benedict XVI and John Paul II), the pope is supposed to have the last word on what orthodoxy entails, and directly criticizing a sitting pontiff is the sort of thing that ought to put a high-profile Catholic post at risk.
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In the context of the papacy, in his style as a ruler of the church, Francis is flagrantly Trumpian: a shatterer of norms, a disregarder of traditions, an insult-heavy rhetorician, a pontiff impatient with the strictures of church law and inclined to govern by decree when existing rules and structures resist his will.
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They may also get some encouragement from a higher power when they meet Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday evening — though the first non-European pontiff in over a millennium has in the past also chided the EU for rebuffing refugees and losing sight of its values, becoming old, "fearful and self-absorbed".
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Francis&apos choice of Monsignor Konrad Krajewski, a good-natured Pole who personally has handed out sleeping bags to homeless on frigid Roman nights and driven poor people to seaside day trips paid for by the Vatican, reflects the pontiff&aposs determination to make the Catholic Church known for its attention to those on life&aposs margins.
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The stated purpose of this contentious piece of writing, which varies from personal reminiscence to dense theological argument, was to assist the deliberations of the current pontiff, who convened a global meeting on child abuse in February after reports of dreadful crimes and cover-ups in countries ranging from Ireland to the United States, and from Chile to Australia.
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"It's just kind of a fantastic scenario," Gladden Pappin, an assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas and senior adviser of the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, told me over the phone when I asked him if he could imagine any situation in which a pontiff might actually be prosecuted.
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The traffic-choked streets of the capital were cleared of cars and sometimes people for the pontiff, who paid respects at a memorial to those who fell in the country's war for independence and at the home where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, considered the father of the nation, was assassinated with much of his family in 1975.
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ROME — For the second time in three days, Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of a powerful prelate — this time, an Australian archbishop — in a sexual abuse scandal, as the pontiff tries to send the message that high officials no longer enjoy near-immunity from consequences within the church when it comes to sexual misconduct.
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The pontiff has called for respect for the city's "status quo," saying new tension in the Middle East would further inflame world conflicts.. On Thursday at the United Nations, where the Vatican has permanent observer status, more than 120 countries defied Trump and voted in favor of a resolution calling for the United States to drop its recent recognition.
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The martyred Oscar Romero, former archbishop of San Salvador, was made a saint on Sunday morning, alongside six other canonized church figures, including Pope Paul VI. The canonization of Romero — whose Latin American origins and commitment to social justice mirror that of the current pontiff, Pope Francis — is a powerfully symbolic reaffirmation of Francis's own long-held dedication to eradicating wealth inequality.
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Not all the films being exhibited at the festival are expected to unfurl on the big screen, though: Venice will also offer a glimpse at the first two episodes of The Young Pope, HBO's 10-part series chronicling the fictional Pius XIII – the first American pope in history, according to this revisionist take – with Jude Law donning the ivory robe of the pontiff.
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has accepted U.S. prelate Theodore McCarrick&aposs offer to resign from the College of Cardinals following allegations of sexual abuse, including one involving an 11-year-old boy, and ordered him to conduct a "life of prayer and penance" in a home to be designated by the pontiff until a church trial is held, the Vatican said Saturday.
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As the Vatican continues its four-day bishops' summit on dealing with sex abuse by priests, this stunning roundup by AP Vatican correspondent Nicole Winfield shows starkly that this is "a global problem that requires a global response": Argentina: Pope Francis' home country is beginning to see an eruption of the scandal, with some cases even implicating failures by the pontiff himself.
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" But in keeping with his penchant for blunt talk, the pontiff said Friday that "that tragedy" had been "a genocide" and was "the first of the deplorable series of catastrophes of the past century, made possible by twisted racial, ideological or religious aims that darkened the minds of the tormentors even to the point of planning the annihilation of entire peoples.
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The event: In what Vatican officials said was intended to be a low key event, the pontiff invited 40 top energy executives, investors, and other experts in order to appeal to them to find a way to address what he called "two great needs of today's world" at the same time: caring for the poor and being caretakers of the environment.
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The film, which opens in theaters on May 18, follows Pope Francis from prisons, refugee camps and favelas to the halls of Congress and the United Nations without losing its stringent focus on a pontiff seeking to model himself on his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, the son of a rich textile merchant who cast off his finery for mendicants' robes.
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Pope Francis became the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam, as he arrived on Sunday in the United Arab Emirates on a trip seeking to improve relations with the Muslim world and to offer encouragement to Catholic migrants in a region where his flock has dwindled amid increasing persecution and bloodshed.
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And this week alone, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of DC, hinted that he plans to ask the pontiff to accept his resignation for his mishandling of clerical abuse cases; an influential bishop in West Virginia resigned following accusations that he harassed adults; and Pope Francis announced a meeting of the world's bishops—the first of its kind—to deal with the seemingly ever-expanding issue.
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Kim told Moon, a Catholic, of his wish to meet the pontiff during a meeting last month and the South Korean leader announced before his trip to the Vatican that he would be relaying a message.. The pope, who is due to visit nearby Japan next year, told Moon he would "definitely answer" an invitation from Kim if it arrives, according to Moon's office.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE said on Thursday that he respects Pope Francis after bashing the pontiff earlier in the day for criticizing his plan to build a border wall.
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"The laws that you promulgate and apply ought to build bridges between different political perspectives — even when they respond to precise ends ordered to the promotion of greater care for the defenseless and the marginalized, especially the many who are constrained to leave their countries; and when they are in order to favor a correct human and natural ecology," the pontiff told the group on Sunday.
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Pope FrancisPope FrancisEndangered Species Act is a modern-day Noah's Ark — Trump must stop trying to sink it Pope Francis cautions against nationalism, says recent political rhetoric has echoed 'Hitler in 1934' Pope: 'Defenseless people' targeted in US mass shootings MORE on Friday strongly condemned nations that stockpile nuclear weapons for deterrence, a signal that the pontiff is hardening the Catholic Church's stance on nuclear weapons.
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In his statement on Monday, Cardinal Zen said that when he delivered Bishop Zhuang's letter to the pope, the pontiff expressed sympathy for the underground bishops, telling the cardinal that his negotiators should not "create another Mindszenty case," a reference to a pro-democracy bishop in Hungary who was forced out of his country in 1956 and replaced with a person acceptable to the government.
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To a degree, "In the Name of the Family" has less excitement than its predecessor, "Blood and Beauty," in which Dunant followed the rise of Rodrigo as pontiff, describing his galvanic lust for attention, for women, for power, and his willingness to make use of his helpless daughter, who becomes a pawn in his machinations, forced to marry men who would advance her father's worldly kingdom.
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Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea on Sunday when he met its leader, Kim Jong Un, in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled nuclear talks.. When he met the pope last year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is Catholic, relayed a verbal invitation from Kim to Francis for the pontiff to visit North Korea.
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Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea on Sunday when he met its leader, Kim Jong Un, in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled nuclear talks.. When he met the pope last year, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is Catholic, relayed a verbal invitation from Kim to Francis for the pontiff to visit North Korea.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE is speaking to supporters at a rally Thursday in Gaffney, S.C. Trump earlier Thursday slammed Pope Francis for criticizing his plan to build a border wall, portraying the pontiff as duped by the Mexican government.
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