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Pope called Ukraine president; expressed 'profound pain'

Pope Francis called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday and expressed his "most profound pain" for the country's suffering, the Ukrainian Embassy to the Vatican said.

Reuters

Ukraine invasion: Pope Francis visits Russian embassy to 'express concern'

Francis broke with protocol to make the intervention

Wales Online

Departing from protocol, pope goes to Russian embassy over Ukraine

Pope Francis went to the Russian embassy to the Vatican on Friday to relay his concern over Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Moscow's ambassador, in an unprecedented departure from diplomatic protocol.

Reuters

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Pope cancels Florence visit, Ash Wednesday service due to knee pain

Pope Francis has been forced to cancel a trip to Florence this Sunday and Ash Wednesday services next week, because of an acute flare up of pain in his knee, the Vatican said on Friday.

Reuters

Vatican hopes for "glimmer of conscience" from leaders on Ukraine

The Vatican, in its first comment since Russia invaded Ukraine, said on Thursday it hoped that those who hold the destiny of the world in their hands will have a "glimmer of conscience".

Reuters

25 years later, Legion of Christ victims seek reparations

It has been 25 years since a Connecticut newspaper exposed one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sexual abuse scandals

The Independent UK

Argentine bishop had porn on phone, priest says at second day of abuse trial

An Argentine bishop requested massages from young men studying to be priests and stored pornographic photos on his phone, witnesses testified on Tuesday on the second day of the cleric's trial for sex abuse.

Reuters

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Like in Arizona, botched baptisms roiled Michigan church

Thousands of Arizona Catholics recently learned they may have been improperly baptized with the wrong words

The Independent UK

Lawyers: papal decrees violated fraud suspects' human rights

Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s fraud and extortion trial have accused Pope Francis of violating their clients' human rights by issuing four secret, executive decrees that resulted in an improper investigation and deprived them of basic legal guarantees

The Independent UK

Abuser priest attends Vatican symposium on priesthood - witnesses

A Vatican symposium on the priesthood, including discussions on sexual abuse, was embarrassed on Friday by the discovery that a French priest disciplined for alleged sexual abuse was among the attendees, witnesses said.

Reuters

Vatican spy story takes center stage as fraud trial resumes

The Vatican’s big fraud and extortion trial is exposing some unseemly realities of how the Holy See operates

The Independent UK

Vatican tries to reboot priesthood amid crisis over abuses

The Vatican has opened a three-day conference on rebooting the Catholic priesthood amid a drop in vocations and a credibility crisis over sex abuse scandals

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why are thousands of baptisms deemed invalid?

Catholic officials say words matter

The Independent UK

Thousands of baptisms invalidated by priest’s use of one wrong word

Priest in Phoenix, Arizona, resigns after mistakenly using the phrase ‘we baptize you’ instead of ‘I baptize you’ for years

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The Independent UK

Vatican ponders priesthood amid abuse research, revelations

The Vatican this week is hosting a three-day symposium on the Catholic priesthood amid renewed public attention on clergy sex abuse scandals and fresh research into the abuses of priestly power

Daily Mirror

Woman kicked out of Vatican over sexy outfit says she will stop being Catholic

Juju Vieira wore a fitted dress and long boots to the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church but was told she was not dressed properly and asked to leave

ABC News

US Catholic priest resigns after performing thousands of invalid baptisms over 20 years

Father Andres Arango apologises for using the word "we" instead of "I" when performing baptisms — a change which meant the thousands of baptisms he performed during his 20 years as a priest in Brazil, California and Arizona were found to be invalid.

Reuters

Ukraine would welcome Vatican mediation, wants papal visit soon - ambassador

Ukraine is open to a Vatican mediation of its conflict with Russia and wants Pope Francis to visit as soon as possible, even in the current situation, Kyiv's new ambassador to the Holy See said on Monday.

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Latest Ukraine updates: US says Putin increasing military options

Ukraine news from February 14: Pentagon says Putin is adding more military force and capability near Ukraine’s borders.

The Independent UK

Many faith leaders wary of religious exemptions for vaccine

By the thousands, Americans have been seeking religious exemptions in order to circumvent COVID-19 vaccine mandates

The Guardian - UK

Pressure on Italian Catholic church to face child sexual abuse reckoning

Unofficial estimates say country may have highest number of victims of paedophile priests in world

Reuters

Pope to visit Malta on April 2-3, Vatican says

Pope Francis will visit Malta on April 2-3, the Vatican said on Thursday, a trip that was originally to have taken place in 2020 but was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bangkok Post

Ex-pope asks for forgiveness over abuse scandal

Ex-pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness Tuesday for clerical child sex abuse committed on his watch, but aides rejected allegations of a cover-up while he was archbishop of Munich.

Reuters

Dumping plastic in waterways is 'criminal', pope says in TV interview

Dumping plastic in waterways is "criminal" and must end if humanity wants to save the planet for future generations, Pope Francis said in a television interview on Sunday.

Reuters

Moroccan boy's death sparks an outpouring of sympathy

The death of 5-year-old Rayan Awram despite a massive effort to rescue him from a deep well sparked an outpouring of sympathy on Sunday, from his village in northern Morocco to the Vatican, from King Mohammed to international football clubs.

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