Pope Francis on Friday became the first pope to visit South Sudan — fulfilling a yearslong hope to carry out an ecumenical trip to the war-torn country.
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The late Cardinal George Pell’s funeral Mass drew thousands of mourners, filling Sydney’s St. Mary’s Cathedral to capacity.
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To bring about peace, “prayer is the most powerful weapon there is,” Pope Francis told thousands of young adults and catechism teachers in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday.
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In a moving encounter with Pope Francis, children from eastern Congo laid down the machetes and knives used to kill their families at the foot of Christ’s cross to symbolize their forgiveness.
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More than one million people attended Pope Francis’ Mass in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday morning, according to local authorities.
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In his first speech in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, Pope Francis urged the international community to give the central African country its autonomy while not turning a blind eye to exploitation and violence.
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The apostolic nuncio of the Holy See in Spain, Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza, explained the
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A Catholic priest who blocked access to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic could face up to one year in
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The ordination of the first-ever blind Catholic priest in Kenya will help show people that “disability is not inability,” the archbishop of Nyeri has said.
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Sister Andre Randon, a French nun and the oldest person in the world, has passed away at the age of 118.
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A Catholic priest was burned to death on Sunday after bandits set fire to his parish rectory in northern Nigeria.
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Carlo Acutis slid his books into his backpack when he heard the parish priest knocking at the door.
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