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Pope’s Easter Message At Vatican In Full

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The following is the Vatican’s official English-language translation of Pope Francis “Urbi et Orbi” Easter message, which he delivered Sunday in Italian from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica: “Jesus Christ is risen! Love has

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Nigeria’s Only Active Cardinal Laments Destruction of Churches on Eve of Election Results

As further attacks from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram have disrupted Nigeria’s presidential elections, officials now say that the results will not be released until Tuesday. Cardinal John Onaiyekan, the archbishop of Abuja and Nigeria’s only cardinal, has said that the situation in Nigeria is so serious that no matter who wins the election, a major “turn of page” is needed.

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Pope Francis Gets Pizza Delivery Aboard Popemobile

The pizza makers of Neapolitan Pizzeria Don Ernesto decided the Pope deserved a specially personalized pizza, whether he had ordered it or not. The ingenious baker jumped over the makeshift barrier lining the route of the papal entourage and ran up to the Popemobile, handing the pizza to Pope Francis, while his comrades got the whole scene on video.

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Cardinal Sounds Alarm for Rome: ‘Terrorism Is the Greatest Threat for Jubilee Year’

Amidst the enthusiasm for the upcoming Jubilee year of 2016 proclaimed by Pope Francis, Cardinal Camillo Ruini has added a sobering note of caution. “Terrorism is the greatest threat looming over the Jubilee proclaimed by Pope Francis. You cannot ignore it after what has happened in Tunisia,” he said in an interview this weekend with the Italian daily La Repubblica.

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Vatican Relaunches ‘Just War Doctrine’ to Stop ISIS Genocide

Recent years have seen an increasing reluctance on the part of the Vatican to speak of the traditional “Just War Doctrine,” as Church officials have urged the exhaustion of diplomatic solutions before even considering the use of force. This reluctance seems now to be giving way to a grittier realism in the face of a relentless enemy with whom constructive, rational dialogue is impossible.

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Pope Francis Teaches Priests How to Hear Confessions

This has been a big week for Pope Francis, as he celebrated his second anniversary as Pope, granted a lengthy interview in which he said time is ticking away on his pontificate, and called for an extraordinary Jubilee year of mercy for 2016. In the midst of this flurry of activity, Francis also found time to address a group of priests about how to be good confessors, before going to confession himself.

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Pope Francis: ‘The Devil Has Made Mexico Pay’

In an exclusive interview Wednesday, the second anniversary of his election to the papacy, Pope Francis spoke on a wide range of topics, many of which revolved around Mexico. He said that “the devil doesn’t forgive Mexico because there [the Virgin Mary] revealed her Son,” referring to the appearances of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

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Cardinal Zen Warns Vatican: ‘China Wants Unconditional Surrender’

In an interview Wednesday with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Emeritus Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun accused the Vatican of being naïve in its dialogue with Beijing, saying that the Church is preparing to give away too much. “Italians in the Roman Curia don’t know the Chinese dictatorship,” he said, “because they have never experienced a Communist regime.”

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Pope Francis: ‘The Elderly Are Not Aliens’

In his weekly “general audience” Wednesday, Pope Francis once again employed forceful language in addressing the issue of the elderly in society, saying that the quality of a civilization is shown by the way it treats its older members. Many modern societies make no room for the elderly, he said, and carry in themselves “the virus of death.”

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New San Diego Bishop Rushes to Push Immigration Reform

Native Californian Monsignor Robert McElroy of San Francisco received appointment from the Vatican Tuesday to the position of Roman Catholic bishop of San Diego. Hours later, McElroy announced that he would pressure Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Such plans

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Report: Pope Francis to Travel to Ukraine

According to reports, Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to travel to Ukraine. The news was released by a Ukrainian senior official involved in the exchange of prisoners in the war-torn Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and is coursing around the web in Cyrillic.

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