Vatican
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Pope Francis meets French President Macron
Jun 27, 2018
At a private audience in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Tuesday, Pope Francis and France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, exchange gifts and discuss the environment, migration, and disarmament.
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Pope Francis: It's time to rediscover amazement, surprise, gratitude
Jun 26, 2018
Pope Francis has said Christians should model the amazement, surprise and gratitude of Elizabeth and Zechariah - and their community - at the birth of their son, John.
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Pope: All life is sacred, that of the child, the old and the exploited
Jun 26, 2018
"When we consign children to deprivation, the poor to hunger, the persecuted to war, the old to abandonment, are we not instead doing, the 'dirty' work of death? Where does the dirty work of death come from? It comes from sin ". Thinking about bioethics, not "starting from illness and death", but "from the profound conviction of the irrevocable dignity of the human person".
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Pope meets Governor-General of Australia
Jun 26, 2018
Pope Francis on June 25 received in audience in the Vatican the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, Peter Cosgrove.
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Pope Francis turns an ordinary Sunday into an extraordinary surprise
Jun 26, 2018
Pope Francis makes a surprise visit Sunday afternoon to “Casale 4.5” on the outskirts of Rome—bringing his word and his hugs to about 200 disabled persons.
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Holy See urges legislation for transnational corporations to respect human rights, environment
Jun 26, 2018
Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, on June 25 addressed a meeting on transnational corporations and human rights, during the current 38th Session of the Human Rights Council.
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Pope: ‘Catholic education gives soul to world’
Jun 26, 2018
Inviting the Gravissimum Educationis Foundation to offer hope, Pope Francis says Catholic education gives soul to our globalized world and radiates the promise of Christian salvation.
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Pope Francis: ‘Respect for the world begins with respect for the human body’
Jun 26, 2018
Pope Francis addresses the General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Life on Monday focusing his remarks on the theme of the two-day workshop: situating human life within the wider context of the globalized world.
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Pope Francis: Jerusalem must be protected from political disputes
Jun 26, 2018
Pope Francis stressed Friday the important role the Eastern Catholic Churches play in spreading the Gospel given that many of them are concentrated in
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Pope renames Vatican communications office
Jun 25, 2018
Pope Francis on 23 June 2018, changed the name of the Secretariat for Communication to the “Dicastery for Communication”, with a rescript published in the Osservatore Romano.
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