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Pope backs Argentine women's opposition to abortion bill
Pope Francis is encouraging Argentine women who are protesting a proposed new law to legalise abortion, saying the protection of life is above all a...
Pope says women can read at Mass, but still can't be priests
11 Jan 2021 12:34 PMPope Francis changed church law Monday to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, while continuing to affirm that they cannot be...
Pope seeks 'Copernican revolution' for post-COVID economy
8 Feb 2021 11:41 AMPope Francis urged governments on Monday to use the coronavirus crisis as a revolutionary opportunity to create a world that is more economically and...
Iraqi Christians, decimated by Islamist violence, prepare for pope's...
24 Feb 2021 5:08 PMIraqi Christians are busy scrubbing churches, practising hymns and preparing for mass ahead of the first ever papal visit to the country, a four-day...
Devouts bank on Pope’s visit to war-torn Iraq
6 March 2021 12:14 AMNever before has the head of the Catholic Church visited Iraq. And seldom has one of the pontiff’s 32 visits abroad raised as many expectations as the...
Pope meets cardinal he fired, in apparent reconciliation
1 April 2021 10:49 PMPope Francis celebrated Mass on Thursday with Cardinal Angelo Becciu, according to the cardinal who was fired by the pontiff last September on...
Pope calls for lowering of tensions in eastern Ukraine
18 April 2021 5:13 PMPope Francis, delivering his Sunday address to a live audience for the first time in more than a month, called for a lowering of tensions in eastern...
In Earth Day message, pope warns that planet is "at the brink"
22 April 2021 5:59 PMPope Francis said in his Earth Day message on Thursday that the planet was "at the brink" and humanity had to avoid "the path of self destruction."