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Pope hosts lunch for Rome's poor and homeless

Pope Francis hosted a lunch for 1,300 poor and homeless people on Sunday, the day the Roman Catholic Church marks the World Day of the Poor.

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Pope says women's rights fight is 'continuous struggle', condemns mutilation

Pope Francis said on Sunday the fight for women's rights was a "continuous struggle", and condemned male chauvinism as deadly for humanity and female genital mutilation as a crime that must be stopped.

Reuters

Breakaway church gives gay ex-monk what Vatican would deny him: a holy wedding

Anselm Bilgri, a former monk and prior at one of Germany's most famous monasteries, had to leave the Roman Catholic Church to wed his long-term male partner. Now he hopes their wedding within a breakaway church will normalise such unions.

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Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting

Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials

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John Paul I, 'Smiling Pope' for a month, moves towards sainthood

Pope John Paul I, who died in 1978 after only 33 days as pontiff, moved closer to sainthood on Sunday with the Vatican still having to dismiss lingering conspiracy theories that he was a victim of foul play.

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Nicaraguans celebrate Mass peacefully after procession ban

Hundreds of Nicaraguans have attended Mass under a heavy police presence after the government prohibited a religious procession in the capital amid tensions with the Roman Catholic Church

The Independent UK

Nicaraguan police prohibit religious procession in capital

Nicaragua’s police are prohibiting a religious procession scheduled for Saturday in the capital, the latest sign of tensions between the government and the Roman Catholic Church

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Nicaragua's government shutters 6 church radio stations

Nicaraguan authorities have ordered the closures of six radio stations belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and surrounded one with riot police

The Independent UK

Pope seeks forgiveness for sexual abuse at Canadian residential schools

Pope Francis on Thursday asked for forgiveness for sexual abuse at Canadian schools for indigenous children run by Catholic orders, addressing a deep wound that many survivors wanted him to acknowledge during his apology tour in Canada.

Reuters

I survived the ’60s Scoop. Here's why the Pope's apology isn't an apology at all

Pope Francis came this week to Maskwasic in central Alberta — where many Indigenous people, including survivors of residential schools and their descendants, had gathered — to deliver an expected apology in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action No. 58:

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Pope Francis leaves Rome for Canada apology tour

Pope Francis left Rome on Sunday for a trip to Canada to apologise for the role of the Roman Catholic Church in residential schools where many indigenous children were abused.

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Jesuits in moment of silence in Mexico for murdered priests

Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church has began a special round of prayers for peace after two Jesuit priests and a tour guide were slain June 20

The Independent UK

FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans

The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans, looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them

The Independent UK

Pope trip to Canada in July on course despite knee problem

Pope Francis will have at least five meetings with indigenous people during a trip to Canada in July, making good on a promise to apologise in the country for the Roman Catholic Church's role in abusive residential schools.

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Royal jubilees have always been surprisingly religious affairs

Queen Elizabeth II is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee, marking her 70 years on the throne. Like all jubilees since the first celebrating 50 years of King George III’s reign in 1809, this is a national occasion with celebrations arranged in many communities across the United…

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Pope names 21 new cardinals, putting stamp on Church's future

Pope Francis announced on Sunday that he would appoint 21 new cardinals in August, including an Italian leading the Church in Mongolia, again putting his stamp on the future of Catholicism.

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Calls for the Queen to say sorry over major church child abuse scandal in Canada

Community leaders have in recent years demanded apologies and reparations from the Anglican Church which ran 36 residential schools in Canada, the most of any religious denomination apart from the Roman Catholic Church

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Pope declares 10 new saints, including Dutch priest killed by Nazis

Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk assassinated in Algeria.

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Pope to visit Canada in July to meet residential school survivors

Visit from July 24 to 30 comes after Pope Francis apologised for Catholic Church’s role in abuse of Indigenous children.

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Pope names new Paris archbishop after predecessor's resignation

Pope Francis has named Archbishop Laurent Ulrich to be the new head of the Roman Catholic Church in Paris, five months after the previous archbishop resigned over reports of a relationship with a woman.

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Canada indigenous group meets pope, invite him to ancestral lands

Canada's Red River Métis indigenous people met Pope Francis on Thursday and accepted his apology for the Roman Catholic Church's role in Canada's residential schools, which sought to erase their cultures and where many children suffered abuse.

The Independent UK

Arizona court won't halt sex suits naming Boy Scouts, others

An Arizona Supreme Court decision means victims of long-ago child sex abuse can proceed with lawsuits against groups like the Boy Scouts of America

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‘Walking to justice’: Canada’s residential school survivors

Brandi Morin accompanied Indigenous survivors of Canada’s church-run residential schools as they went to the Vatican.

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Pope Francis apologises for ‘deplorable’ residential school abuse

Indigenous leaders welcome papal apology as ‘long overdue’, but say it is only a first step on the path to justice.

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‘I needed to be here’: Indigenous delegates speak their truths

Al Jazeera speaks to Indigenous delegates meeting with Pope Francis to demand an apology for residential schools.

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