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Pope urges Catholics to swap social media for reflection as Lent begins

YoopyaFeb 15, 2024February 15, 20240

ROME, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with

Pope says LGBT blessings are for individuals, not approval of unions

YoopyaJan 26, 2024January 26, 20240

VATICAN CITY, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Friday defended a Vatican document on blessings for same-sex couples but said they were not an

Pope wants to simplify papal funeral rites, be buried outside Vatican

YoopyaDec 13, 2023December 31, 20230

VATICAN CITY, Dec 13 (Reuters) – Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the Vatican’s pomp and privilege, has decided to vastly simplify the elaborate

Musk meets pope, uses Twitter to announce the audience

YoopyaJul 4, 2022April 6, 20230

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose $44 billion bid to buy Twitter remains in limbo, used the social media platform to announce he had met with

Pope prays for liberation of 317 kidnapped Nigerian students

YoopyaFeb 28, 2021June 13, 20230

Pope Francis on Sunday decried the kidnapping of 317 students from their boarding school in northwest Nigeria and prayed for the girls’ quick release. Addressing

Coughing pope cancels participating in Lenten retreat

YoopyaMar 1, 2020June 19, 20230

A coughing Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the

US Church divided over claims that pope ignored sex abuse

YoopyaAug 30, 2018June 3, 20230

The controversy over an alleged high-level cover-up of Church sex abuse in America has revealed a deep rift among US bishops that reflects both the

Pope Francis drinks coca leaf tea on South American tour

YoopyaJul 9, 2015July 1, 20230

Main ingredient in cocaine given to pontiff in a brew of camomile and anise seeds on the plane to Bolivia as a remedy for altitude

Release of encyclical reveals pope’s deep dive into climate science

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 2, 20230

VATICAN CITY — He warns of synthetic agrotoxins harming birds and insects and bioaccumulation from industrial waste. He calls for renewable fuel subsidies and maximum

Whodunit playing out as Vatican reels from encyclical leak

YoopyaJun 16, 2015July 1, 20230

VATICAN CITY (AP) — There’s something of a whodunit going on in the Vatican to discover who leaked Pope Francis environment encyclical to an Italian newsweekly,