Pope Francis renews curbs on Latin Mass in rebuff to conservatives
PHILLIP PULLELLA POPE Francis has overturned decisions by his two predecessors and re-imposed restrictions on the old-style Latin Mass preferred
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Learn to switch off, says pope in first appearance at Vatican after hospital stay
POPE Francis made his first public appearance since returning to the Vatican mid-week after an 11-day hospital stay, telling wellwishers
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No-stress scripture: Nigerian Christians relish Pidgin Bible
ANGELA UKOMADU AT the Heavenly Citizen’s Church in Lagos, the pastor and congregation have adopted a new tool to help
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Pope reappears after surgery, backs free universal health care
PHILIP PULLELLA and GIULIA SEGRETI POPE Francis, seeming in good overall condition, appeared in public on Sunday for the first
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Two popes, same hospital, different styles of medical privacy
PHILIP PULLELLA WHEN Pope John Paul II was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on July 12, 1992, he told the
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Pope Francis in hospital for intestinal surgery
PHILLIP PULLELLA POPE Francis has been admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital for scheduled intestinal surgery, the Vatican said, the first
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Pope rejects cardinal’s resignation, says abuse scandal “a catastrophe”
PHILIP PULLELLA and THOMAS ESCRITT POPE Francis has rejected German Cardinal Reinhard Marx’s resignation as archbishop of Munich over the
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German archbishop offers to resign over Church’s sexual abuse ‘catastrophe’
THOMAS ESCRITT and PHILIP PULLELLA ONE of Roman Catholicism’s most influential liberal figures, Germany’s Cardinal Reinhard Marx, has offered to
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Faith in numbers: Is church attendance linked to higher rates of coronavirus?
Closures and backlash Public health experts strongly urged churches to cease congregational meetings during the worst parts of the pandemic,
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German priests defy Vatican ban by blessing same-sex unions
ENRIQUE ANARTE THE Catholic Church has lost touch with the “living reality” of LGBT+ people, said one of more than
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