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[ad_1] ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — With China’s crackdown on religious minorities as a backdrop, Pope Francis joined Mongolian shamans, Buddhist monks and a Russian Orthodox priest Sunday...
[ad_1] BERLIN — The archbishop of Cologne, one of Germany’s most important Catholic dioceses, expressed disappointment Friday that employees used work computers to try to access...
[ad_1] FATIMA, Portugal — Pope Francis visited the Portuguese town of Fatima on Saturday to pray for peace at a shrine known for apocalyptic prophesies of...
[ad_1] VATICAN CITY — VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis travels to the periphery of Roman Catholicism later this summer when he becomes the first pontiff...
[ad_1] ROME — Pope Francis’ peace envoy arrived in Moscow on Tuesday in hopes of helping find “a solution to the tragic current situation” of the...
[ad_1] The Vatican is urging the Catholic faithful, and especially bishops, to be “reflective, not reactive” on social media ByNICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY —...
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY — After two months of hard work assembling and painting devil-like cardboard figures popularly known as “Judas,” Mexican artisan Marcela Villarreal is eager...
[ad_1] VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Saturday it had closed its embassy in Nicaragua after the country’s government proposed suspending diplomatic relations, the latest episode...
[ad_1] BERLIN — Germany’s Catholic bishops and lay representatives gathered on Thursday for the final meeting of a potentially groundbreaking reform assembly that has been marked...
[ad_1] WARSAW, Poland — St. John Paul II knew about sexual abuse of children by priests under his authority and sought to conceal it when he...
[ad_1] GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. — The first funerals were held Saturday for students who were killed in this week’s mass shooting at Michigan State University....
[ad_1] LISBON, Portugal — More than 4,800 individuals may have been victims of child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church and 512 alleged victims have...
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY — Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Álvarez, an outspoken critic of Nicaragua’s government, was sentenced to 26 years in prison and stripped of his...
[ad_1] VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI held one of the world’s highest-profile positions but in his final years expressed a desire to be “hidden to...
[ad_1] VATICAN CITY — Within minutes of the announcement of the death of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI Saturday morning, a wealth of tributes poured in from...
[ad_1] The latest on the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI: BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is paying tribute to the German-born Pope Emeritus Benedict...
[ad_1] COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — As monks chanted prayers in Saint John’s University church, members of the student LGBTQ organization, QPLUS, were meeting in their lounge at...
[ad_1] BEIJING — Beijing and the Vatican are once again tangling over the prickly issue of appointing Chinese bishops. After complaints from the Vatican that Beijing...
[ad_1] HONG KONG — A 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and five others in Hong Kong were fined after being found guilty Friday of failing to register a...
[ad_1] BALTIMORE — Even as they signaled a continued hardline stance on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, the nation’s Catholic bishops acknowledged Wednesday that they’re struggling...