Pope Francis, center, delivers the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing inside the blessing hall of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican...
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In thisfile photo, Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, ahead of an inter-religious match for peace. Diego Maradona has died. The A...
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Pope Francis waves to faithful at the end of the weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis arrives for a private audience to members of the Italian Police at The Vatican.
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Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his first general audience with faithful since February when the coronavirus outbreak broke out, in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis celebrates a Corpus Domini Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis reads his message from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Francis celebrated a Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, albeit w...
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Pope Francis celebrates Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Francis celebrates a Pentecost Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, albeit without members of the public in ...
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Pope Francis delivers his blessing from the window of his studio overlooking an empty St. Peter's Square, due to anti-coronavirus lockdown measures, at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis celebrates Easter Sunday Mass inside an empty St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. Pope Francis and Christians around the world marked a solitary Easter Sunday, force...
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Pope Francis lies down in prayer prior to celebrate Mass for the Passion of Christ, at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis meets with Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, left, at the Vatican. The pontiff on Sunday urged authorities to take special care of those in nursing homes, military barra...
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Pope Francis delivers his blessing from the window of his studio overlooking an empty St.Peter's Square due to restrictions to contain the Covid-19 virus, at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis celebrates Mass at his Santa Marta residence at the Vatican. The Vatican says the Catholic church is granting a special lifting of punishment and forgiveness for sins ...
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Pope Francis puts ashes on the forehead of Cardinal Jozef Tomko in the Santa Sabina Basilica during the Ash Wednesday mass opening Lent, the forty-day period of abstinence and depr...
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Pope Francis exchange gifts with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, left, and his wife Mehriban Aliyeva, right, during a private audience at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis kisses a statue of Baby Jesus as he presides over a Mass for the solemnity of St. Mary at the beginning of the new year, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican
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Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
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Pope Francis, flanked by Mons. Guido Marini, the Vatican master of liturgical ceremonies, waves to faithful and pilgrims after he delivered the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city...
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Pope Francis kisses a statue of Baby Jesus as he celebrates Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.
‘Its an ethical option, because you are playing with not just your health and life, but also with the lives of others,’ the Pope said while urging everyone to get the Covid-19 vaccine
The nun from Kerala was canonised along with English Cardinal John Henry Newman, Swiss laywoman Marguerite Bays, Brazilian Sister Dulce Lopes and Italian Sister Giuseppina Vannini.
New York's Bishop John Jenik was suspended in 2018 pending a Church investigation into the alleged assault, which reportedly took place in the 1980s while the American was pastor of a Bronx parish.
Under the new measure, every diocese around the world is obliged by June 2020 to create a system for the reporting of sexual abuse by clerics, the use of child pornography and cover-ups of abuse.
The papal admission followed a rare outcry last week from the Vatican's women's magazine over the sexual abuse of nuns, leaving them feeling forced to have abortions or raise children not recognised by their priest fathers.
Pope Francis is urging politicians of all faiths to safeguard the rights of the unborn and is exhorting abortion opponents to also assure that children are born into a world where they can live with dignity.