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Minister: Pope postpones visit to Lebanon for health reasons

Pope Francis has postponed a planned visit to Lebanon next month for health reasons, a Lebanese Cabinet minister said. Tourism minister Walid Nassar did not specify the ailment but the 85-year-old pope is known to be suffering from acute knee pain ...

09 May 2022 at 17:55

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Pope makes Easter plea for Ukraine peace

Pope Francis has made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in the “senseless” war in Ukraine and in other armed conflicts raging in the world, and cited the “troubling” risk of nuclear warfare. “May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so ...

17 Apr 2022 at 13:55

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Pope Francis visits Italian prison for Holy Week foot-washing ritual

Pope Francis has travelled to a prison near Rome to wash the feet of a dozen inmates, a Holy Thursday ritual that symbolises humility and highlights his papacy’s attention to those on society’s margins. He arrived in a motorcade that included ...

14 Apr 2022 at 18:25

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Pope begs forgiveness of Canada’s Indigenous peoples for school abuses

Pope Francis has begged forgiveness for “deplorable” abuses suffered by Indigenous peoples in Canada’s residential schools, saying he was ashamed and indignant at all they had endured at the hands of Catholic leaders. Francis made the ...

01 Apr 2022 at 12:55

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Japanese Prime Minister and Pope discuss nuclear arms after North Korea test

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with Pope Francis and top Vatican officials in talks about the need for “a world free of nuclear weapons”, the Vatican said. The meeting came as nuclear-armed Russia pressed its war in ...

04 May 2022 at 14:25

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New archbishop of Glasgow to celebrate role at cathedral mass

The new archbishop of Glasgow will be installed as leader of Scotland’s largest Catholic community at a mass in the city. Bishop William Nolan of Galloway Diocese was nominated by Pope Francis be the city’s archbishop. He ...

26 Feb 2022 at 03:55

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Pope cancels Florence visit and Ash Wednesday events due to acute knee pain

Pope Francis has cancelled a scheduled Sunday visit to Florence and will not preside over Ash Wednesday commemorations next week because of what the Vatican described as a flare-up of “acute” knee pain. The Vatican said ...

25 Feb 2022 at 12:25

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Elon Musk meets the Pope before using Twitter to announce the audience

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose 44 billion US dollar (£36.4 billion) bid to buy Twitter remains in limbo, used the social media platform to announce he had met with Pope Francis. “Honoured to meet @Pontifex yesterday,” Musk ...

02 Jul 2022 at 19:21

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Pope Francis dismisses resignation rumours

Pope Francis has dismissed rumours that he plans to resign anytime soon. Francis also told Reuters in an interview published on Monday that the idea “never entered my mind” to announce a planned retirement at the end ...

04 Jul 2022 at 15:12

Pope apologises for ‘catastrophic’ school abuses in Canada

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Pope apologises for ‘devastating’ school abuses in Canada

Pope Francis has apologised for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of indigenous residential schools. He said the forced assimilation of native peoples into Christian society ...

26 Jul 2022 at 23:33

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Pope apologises for ‘devastating’ school abuses in Canada

26 Jul 2022 at 10:27

World

Francis praises humility of 13th century pontiff on L’Aquila pilgrimage

Pope Francis made a pilgrimage to an Italian mountain town on Sunday and hailed the humility of a 13th century pontiff who resigned to live a hermit’s life, praising him for using his brief papacy to ...

28 Aug 2022 at 12:45

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