All posts tagged "Vatican"

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  Archbishop of Havana, Key Figure in US Detente, Steps Down

  Cardinal Ortega also oversaw a warming of relations with the Communist government

  • Posted April 26, 2016
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  Pope: Sanders Encounter Sign of Good Manners, ‘Nothing More’

  Sanders called it a 'real honor'

  • Posted April 16, 2016
• Pope on Ash Wednesday: Charity’s not to Please Ourselves

  VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis rubbed ashes on the bowed heads of prelates, nuns and ordinary Catholics Wednesday, and had them smudged on his own head, too, to usher in the Lenten season of prayer and sacrifice...

  • Posted February 10, 2016
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• Italians Arrest Argentine Prelate in Swindle Scheme

  ROME – Italian tax police have arrested an Argentine monsignor they say was behind a Ponzi-type scheme swindling people out of 30 million euros ($34 million). Police Capt. Alessandra Faietti says Monsignor Patrizio Benvenuti was under house...

  • Posted February 10, 2016
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• Vatican Commits to Slavery-proofing its own Supply Chains

  ROME – The Vatican says it will ensure that its supply chains don’t use forced labor after a forum of some of the world’s biggest supermarket chains and food manufacturers announced new efforts to slave-proof their own...

  • Posted January 18, 2016
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• Pope: Now’s The Time To End Indifference, ‘False Neutrality’

  VATICAN CITY – Wishing for a year better than 2015, Pope Francis on Friday called for an end to the “arrogance of the powerful” that relegates the weak to the outskirts of society, and to the “false...

  • Posted January 1, 2016
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• Pope: Remember The Good News, Sometimes Hidden By Bad

  VATICAN CITY – In the final hours of 2015, Pope Francis is encouraging humanity to hang on to recollections of good deeds, so that gestures of goodness can be seen triumphing over evil. Francis was presiding over...

  • Posted December 31, 2015
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• Pope Urges Christmas Prayers for Syria, Libya Peace

  VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued a Christmas Day prayer that recent U.N.-backed peace processes for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffering of their people, denouncing the “monstrous evil” and atrocities they have endured and...

  • Posted December 25, 2015
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