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Reminiscent of the scene in Oscar-nominated film The Two Popes where Cardinal Julio Bergoglio (Jonathan Price) was led by the Swiss Guards up the long staircase to have audience with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins) at the Apostolic Palace, a group of Buddhist monks and laymen were guided…

Bangkok Post

Exclusive-Pope hopes China deal on bishops will be renewed soon

Pope Francis said that while the Vatican's secret and contested agreement with China on the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops is not ideal, he hopes it can be renewed in October because the Church takes the long view.

Reuters

Vatican envoy in Hong Kong warns Catholic missions to prepare for China crackdown

Monsignor Javier Herrera-Corona, the Vatican's unofficial representative in Hong Kong, delivered a stark message to the city's 50-odd Catholic missions before finishing his six-year posting in March: the freedoms they had enjoyed for decades were over.

Reuters

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Pope Francis dismisses cancer rumours and says he has no plans to resign

Francis, 85, also said he hopes to be able to go to Moscow and Kyiv as soon as possible

Evening Standard

Pope Francis Denies he is Planning to Resign Soon

Pope Francis has dismissed reports that he plans to resign in the near future, saying he is on track to visit Canada this month and hopes to be able to go to Moscow and Kyiv as soon as possible after that. In an exclusive interview in his Vatican residence, Francis…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pope Francis denies he is planning to resign soon

Reuters

Vatican sells London building at heart of corruption trial to Bain Capital

The Vatican said on Friday it had sold the luxury London building at the centre of an ongoing corruption trial to Bain Capital in recent days for 186 million pounds ($223.6 million).

Reuters

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Clarence Thomas wrongly suggests ‘aborted children’ cells were used to make Covid vaccines in SCOTUS opinion

Claim has been debunked by experts, while even the Vatican says vaccines are ‘morally acceptable’

The Independent UK

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi receives Communion at Vatican amid abortion rights debate

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi received Holy Communion Wednesday at the Vatican and met with Pope Francis despite her support for abortion rights.

Tribune News Service

Pelosi receives Communion in the Vatican, despite her home archbishop refusing it

The head of the church in San Francisco has said the House Speaker can't receive the sacrament there because of her abortion rights support, but Pope Francis has avoided politicizing the Eucharist.

WEKU

Pelosi takes communion at the Vatican despite being denied it for abortion stance

The Archbishop in San Francisco said the House Speaker will be denied communion

The Independent UK

Congo bishops say pope's Canada trip a good sign for future

Congo’s Catholic bishop say Pope Francis' decision to go ahead with a trip to Canada was an “encouraging sign” that his knee treatment was working

The Independent UK

Pope hails families, blasts 'culture of waste' after Roe

Pope Francis is urging families to shun “selfish” decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican family rally a day after the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion

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The Independent UK

Vatican to start monthly newspaper by and with the poor

The Vatican newspaper is starting a new monthly edition dedicated to the poor and people on the margins

Al Jazeera

Vatican releases schedule for Pope Francis visit to Canada

Pope Francis will meet Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors during his July 24-29 visit, Vatican says.

The Independent UK

Pope orders online release of WWII-era Pius XII Jewish files

Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened archives of the Pope Pius XII pontificate

The Independent UK

Vatican releases pope's Canada itinerary in sign trip is on

The Vatican has released the itinerary for Pope Francis’ July 24-30 visit to Canada

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The Independent UK

Families, from Ukraine, elsewhere, tell pope of woes, joys

Families from many places, including war-ravaged Ukraine, have told Pope Francis their stories of joys, sorrows and hopes at an event on a stage at the Vatican

The Independent UK

Priests join in mocking Megyn Kelly over her ‘scoop’ that the pope may resign

Former Fox News host posted video from Vatican, which she visited on vacation

Reuters

Vatican discloses uses of pope's fund, hoping to shore up trust

The Vatican, in an apparent attempt to boost the confidence of the faithful in how their charitable contributions to the pope are used, on Thursday issued the first detailed disclosure of his main fund.

The Independent UK

Pope cracks down on new Catholic religious start-ups

Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in and regulate new religious groups in the Catholic Church

The Independent UK

Pope bows out of annual procession due to knee pain

The Vatican says Pope Francis has canceled his participation in a yearly Mass and procession next weekend due to ongoing knee pain

Zenger

PulitzerPrize- Winning Historian Details Pius XII’s Troubling Alliances With Mussolini, Hitler

New book examines the controversial WWII legacy of the pontiff known as “Hitler's Pope.”

The Hindu

Decks cleared for Bishop Franco to take up administrative powers

Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who was relieved of his pastoral responsibilities by the Pope in 2018, currently holds the title but with no administrative powers

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