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Ukraine ask pope's help in getting children back from Russia

Ukraine's prime minister says he has asked Pope Francis to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia

The Independent UK

Pope allows women to vote at upcoming bishops' meeting

Pope Francis has decided to give women the right to vote at an upcoming meeting of bishops

The Independent UK

Vatican inaugurates artisan apprentice school for basilica

The Vatican is inaugurating a new arts and crafts academy inside St. Peter’s Basilica

The Independent UK

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Pope slams 'insinuations' against John Paul II as baseless

Pope Francis has publicly defended St. John Paul II, slamming as “offensive and baseless” what he called recent insinuations about the late pontiff

The Independent UK

Pope wants light shed on 40-year-old mystery of missing Vatican girl

One of Italy's most enduring mysteries, the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl 40 years ago, entered a new chapter on Tuesday when her brother met with a Vatican investigator whom Pope Francis has given free rein to get to the bottom of the case.

Reuters

Pope Francis visits children in hospital, will be discharged on Saturday

Pope Francis baptised a baby and greeted children in Rome's Gemelli hospital on Friday as he appeared to make a rapid recovery from a bout of bronchitis that caused him to be hospitalised earlier this week.

Reuters

Founding member of pope's child protection board resigns

A founding member of Pope Francis’ child protection advisory board has resigned

The Independent UK

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2nd Vatican official says pope OK'd ransom payments for nun

A second high-ranking Vatican official has said Pope Francis authorized spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali

The Independent UK

Pope renews cabinet of cardinal advisers, adds new members

Pope Francis has renewed his cabinet of cardinal advisers from around the world

The Independent UK

Journalist deflates accusation at Vatican financial trial

An Italian journalist has deflated an accusation in the Vatican’s sprawling financial trial

The Independent UK

Vatican to hear from PR expert with grudge against cardinal

The Vatican’s big financial fraud and corruption trial is hearing from a public relations specialist who has long harbored a grudge against one of the prime defendants

The Independent UK

'Dumbos jumped on bandwagon': Summernats likened to Vatican porn

The event co-owner defended the shutdown of a part of the event due to safety concerns.

The Canberra Times

Pope Benedict XVI laid to rest as 50,000 pay respects in St Peter’s Square

National leaders and royals among those gathered to see Pope Francis bury his predecessor

The Guardian - UK

Benedict's admirers keep streaming to Vatican to honor him

Lines of people wanting to honor Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI's service to the Catholic church have formed in St. Peter's Square for a second day

The Independent UK

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Daily Dose Ep 1240: Mehbooba writes to CJI, pioneering US news anchor dies

Aban Usmani brings you the news from Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Delhi, Bihar, Assam, Vatican, and the US.

Reuters

Closing of Jesuit abuse case left victims feeling betrayed, expert says

One of the Catholic Church's top sexual abuse experts has called for a review of how his own Jesuit order and the Vatican handled allegations against an internationally known priest and artist.

The Independent UK

Jesuit priests demand transparency in Vatican's artist case

One of the Vatican’s leading Jesuit advisers on preventing clergy sexual abuse is calling for church authorities to shed more light on the case of a famous Jesuit artist who was accused of spiritually abusing women during confession

Reuters

Vatican website down in suspected hacker attack

The official Vatican website was taken offline on Wednesday following an apparent hacking attack, the Holy See said.

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Kremlin: We welcome Vatican offer to mediate but Ukraine's stance prevents it

The Kremlin said on Monday that it welcomed a Vatican offer to provide a negotiating platform to resolve the Ukraine conflict, but that Kyiv's position made this impossible.

Reuters

Vatican court hears cardinal's secretly taped phone call with pope

A court at a Vatican corruption trial on Thursday heard a secretly recorded telephone call between the main defendant, embattled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and Pope Francis.

The Independent UK

Vatican court hears secret recording of pope on hostage fees

The Vatican tribunal weighing a financial fraud case has heard from an unusual witness

The Independent UK

Pope ousts leadership of Caritas Internationalis charity

Pope Francis has ousted the management of the Vatican’s vast, international charitable organization Caritas Internationalis after an external review found management and morale problems at its head office

Reuters

Pope sacks leadership of worldwide Catholic charity, names commissioner

Pope Francis on Tuesday fired the entire leadership of the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide charity arm following accusations of bullying and humiliation of employees, and appointed a commissioner to run it.

The Independent UK

Vatican urges German Catholic Church to put brakes on reform

Top Vatican cardinals are trying to put the brakes on the German Catholic Church’s controversial reform process

The Independent UK

Cardinal challenges Vatican cop over hostage payments

The Vatican’s fraud and corruption trial has taken a dramatic twist with a once-powerful cardinal challenging the Vatican’s police commissioner on the stand about one of the more peculiar tangents of the case

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