Vatican defrocks former US Cardinal Theodore McCarrick for sex abuse
Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and defrocked, as calls rose Saturday for Pope Francis to reveal what he knew about the...
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Pope Francis lands in Abu Dhabi on first papal trip ever to the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam
Pope Francis landed Sunday in Abu Dhabi on the first-ever papal trip to the Arabian Peninsula, where he is seeking to turn a page in Christian-Muslim relations while also ministering...
Pope: Priestly abuse scandals driving Catholic faithful away
Pope Francis conceded Tuesday that priestly sex abuse scandals are outraging the Catholic faithful and driving them away, and said the church must change its ways if it wants to...
Pope rules out death penalty in change to church teaching
Pope Francis has decreed that the death penalty is "inadmissible" under all circumstances and the Catholic Church should campaign to abolish it, a change in church teaching that could influence...
Francis at 5: Paradigm shift in mercy, migrants and marriage
Whenever Pope Francis visits prisons, during his whirlwind trips to the world's peripheries or at a nearby jailhouse in Rome, he always tells inmates that he, too, could have ended...
Droves fill pope’s final Mass in restive Latin America trip
More than 1 million people turned out Sunday for Pope Francis' final Mass in Peru, giving him a warm and heartfelt farewell that contrasted sharply with the outcry he caused...
Pope: Femicides in Latin America a scourge that must stop
Pope Francis denounced femicides and other gender-based crimes that have turned Latin America into the most violent place on Earth for women, calling Saturday for legislation to protect them and...
Cardinal rebukes pope over Chile “slander” comments on sexual abuse
Pope Francis' top adviser on clerical sex abuse implicitly rebuked the pontiff for having accused Chilean victims of slander, saying Saturday that his words were "a source of great pain...
Pope to indigenous: Amazon is “heart of the church”
From deep in the scorching Amazon rainforest, Pope Francis demanded Friday that corporations stop their relentless extraction of timber, gas and gold from God's "holy ground," and called on governments...
Pope shocks Chile by accusing sex abuse victims of slander
Pope Francis accused victims of Chile's most notorious pedophile of slander Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that...