Rare day at Vatican as two popes share stage
PHILIP PULLELLA IT was a rare day at the Vatican as two popes shared the limelight in St Peter’s Square
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Pope Francis calls ‘insinuations’ against John Paul II unfounded
PHILIP PULLELLA POPE Francis rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl
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Pope wants light shed on 40-year-old mystery of missing Vatican girl
PHILIP PULLELLA ONE of Italy’s most enduring mysteries, the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl 40 years ago, entered a new
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Poles march to defend Pope John Paul II against abuse cover-up accusations
AGNIESZKA PIKULICKA-WILCZEWSKA and KUBA STEZYCKI THOUSANDS of Poles marched through Warsaw and other cities to show their support for the
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Pope Francis ‘gradually improving’ in hospital after infection
CRISPIAN BALMER and ALVISE ARMELLINI POPE Francis’s health is improving after he was hospitalised with a respiratory infection and he
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Pope Francis: the first post-colonial papacy to deliver messages that resonate with Africans
WHEN he was presented to a cheering crowd at St Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on 13 March 2013, few people
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God and politics in South Africa: the ruling ANC’s winning strategy
RELIGION shapes some of the most controversial decisions that governments need to make: access to abortion, same-sex marriage, the death
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Ethiopian Orthodox Church reaches deal with breakaway Oromo synod
GIULIA PARAVICINI THE influential Ethiopian Orthodox Church said it had agreed with a breakaway synod from the Oromiya region following
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What does the Bible say about homosexuality? For starters, Jesus wasn’t a homophobe
POPE Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexuality. He reportedly replied: This (laws around the world criminalising LGBTI
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In DR Congo, Pope Francis will see a dynamic local Catholic Church
POPE Francis begins his Africa trip in a country whose vast Catholic membership plays a substantial role in society, especially in the health and education sectors.
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