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The notice also says transgender people can be godparents at a baptism

It comes after a national conference of Catholic bishops in the United States rejected the concept of gender transition

Vatican office adds there must be no ‘situations in which there is a risk of generating a public scandal’

A Hebrew note found in the Vatican Library describes a 1446 earthquake swarm previously unknown to seismologists.

In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded

An 8-month-old terminally ill British girl has been granted Italian citizenship after a court in Britain authorized the withdrawal of life-supporting invasive treatment

Pontiff, 86, hands over rather than reads out prepared speech at Vatican meeting with European rabbis

Pope Francis has met with a delegation of European rabbis but opted not to read his speech, saying he wasn't well

The Hong Kong Roman Catholic diocese says that the leader of China’s Communist Party-sponsored version of the Catholic church will visit Hong Kong this month at the invitation of the city’s pope-appointed cardinal

American Ballet Theatre's dancers rehearse opening night at the Shanghai Grand Theater, returning to China for the first time in a decade. Britain's King Charles III in Kenya, on his first state visit to a Commonwealth country as monarch. Pope Francis leads a special prayer for peace at The Vatican,…

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