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Pope Francis urged vigilance against the snares of the devil Wednesday, especially when he dresses as an angel.

ROME — Pope Francis offered a dire vision of the future Monday, asserting as bad as things are now there are signs worse things are coming.

Russia’s foreign minister has eliminated the Vatican as a possible venue for peace negotiations following comments by Pope Francis that offended Moscow.

Pope Francis urged boys and girls to pray for children “forced to live the terrible and dark days of war” after his Angelus address Sunday.

Pope Francis employed his strongest rhetoric to date Wednesday in condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine, tying it to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people during World War II.

Pope Francis railed against hypocrisy Sunday, urging his hearers to live authentically and take off their masks.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has provoked a series of collateral crises around the world, Pope Francis asserted Friday.

The Holy See’s website was shut down for many hours Wednesday by a cyber-attack after the Vatican offended both Russia and China in past days.

A leading African cardinal said last weekend that religious liberty is “under threat” in the West where there is an “implicit bias against Christianity.”

A Chinese government representative declared this week that he was “not aware” of the demotion and relocation of a Catholic bishop in violation of the 2018 Sino-Vatican accord on the appointment of bishops.

Pope Francis asserted this week that real Catholics reject polarization in a spirit of embracing and harmonizing differences.

The Russian government has protested Pope Francis’s latest comments on the war in Ukraine, in which he claimed that the “cruelest” soldiers are not Russian but outsiders like “the Chechens” and “the Buryati” who fight on the Russian side.

Stalin’s Holodomor genocide of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s was a “historical antecedent” to Russia’s current armed aggression, Pope Francis said in an interview published Monday.

Pope Francis is mourning the death of a homeless German man who died just outside the Vatican this week, the Holy See reported.

The Vatican has registered its “surprise and regret” over China’s unilateral decision to demote and relocate a Catholic bishop without the approval of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis has written a letter to the people of Ukraine marking nine months since the outbreak of war on their soil.

Pope Francis called on the International Theological Commission Thursday to increase the number of women in its ranks, insisting they make theology “tastier.”

Pope Francis tied Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine to Joseph Stalin’s 1930s Holodomor, when the Soviet leader engineered a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.

Pope Francis railed against systemic injustice Tuesday in an address to members of the World Jewish Congress in the Vatican.

The global oppression or persecution of Christians has increased significantly over the past two years, Vatican News reported Monday.

The United States Embassy to the Holy See celebrated “Transgender Day of Remembrance” Sunday, offering tribute “to those of the transgender community who have been murdered because of hate.”

Pope Francis called on young people to be “transgressive” Sunday instead of conforming to the expectations of the world.

The president of the German Bishops’ Conference said Friday that he will continue blessing gay couples and will allow his priests to do so as well.

Pope Francis has reached out to the victims of a terrorist attack that killed six people in Istanbul Sunday, wounding 80 more.

Pope Francis condemned conservative populists Sunday, accusing them of exploiting people’s real needs with “facile and hasty solutions.”

Pope Francis warned of false “prophets of doom” Sunday while simultaneously threatening a looming climate change “crisis” that could wreak untold damage on humanity.

Pope Francis came to the defense of pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin Saturday, praising him as a “man of values.”

The head of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, has blamed Pope Francis for naming pro-abortion economist Mariana Mazzucato to the Academy.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin address the U.N. COP27 climate summit Tuesday, urging net-zero emissions and warning that climate change “will not wait for us.”

Pope Francis has defended his choice of pro-abortion economist Mariana Mazzuccato for the Pontifical Academy for Life, insisting Sunday that she will add some “humanity” to the Academy.

Pope Francis urged young people in Bahrain Sunday not to be bystanders or “tourists of life” but rather to commit themselves and take risks.

Pope Francis told Muslim elders in Bahrain Friday that God is the source of peace and he “never brings about war, never incites hatred, never supports violence.”

Pope Francis on Friday denounced the “childlike scenario” taking place in Ukraine, where leaders play “with fire, missiles, and bombs.”

Pope Francis began his 3-day trip to Bahrain Thursday by praising the nation’s ethnic and cultural diversity and its high level of immigration.

Nine human rights organizations, led by the George-Soros-funded Human Rights Watch, have called on Pope Francis to press Bahrain to end its human rights abuses when he visits the country from November 3 to 6, 2022.

Pope Francis urged Christians to “disarm” their hearts Tuesday, asserting that this is the only way to become peacemakers.