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Pope Francis trotted out a scene from the 11th-century French epic poem La Chanson de Roland this week to prove that Christians have tried to convert Muslims by the sword, just as Muslims have done to Christians.

Pope Francis blasted religious fundamentalism Monday, telling an Argentinian interreligious dialogue group that fundamentalism is a “plague.”

Pope Francis invited 1,500 mostly poor people to lunch this weekend to celebrate the World Day for the Poor and requested that all pork be removed from the menu so as not to give offense to Muslim guests.

Pope Francis told a group of lawyers that he could like to introduce the category of “ecological sin” into official Catholic teaching.

Pope Francis launched an appeal Wednesday on behalf of Burkina Faso, which recently witnessed the death of scores of citizens in a lethal attack presumably perpetrated by Islamic extremists.

Pope Francis denounced anti-Semitism Wednesday, telling crowds in Saint Peter’s Square that the persecution of the Jewish people is neither human nor Christian.

The Vatican’s representative at the United Nations told the U.N. General Assembly last week that environmental concerns such as rising sea levels are contributing decisively to international armed conflicts and must be addressed with urgency.

Cardinal Raymond Burke forcefully denies being an enemy of Pope Francis in a lengthy interview with Ross Douthat of the New York Times.

Pope Francis urged leaders Monday to devise “more inclusive and equitable economic models,” praising those who seek ways “to make capitalism become a more inclusive instrument for integral human wellbeing.”

Pope Francis will call for “the total elimination of nuclear weapons” when he visits Hiroshima and Nagasaki later this month, according to the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.

Chinese Catholics are reportedly pessimistic about Pope Francis’s upcoming visit to Asia, convinced that it will do nothing to ease persecution by the communist government.

The U.S. Bishops’ Conference has issued a statement slamming papal biographer Austen Ivereigh for publishing “false and misleading” stories about the American bishops’ relationship with the Vatican.

Pope Francis expressed vocal gratitude Sunday to a town in southern Italy that has allowed the Catholic Church to register migrants as parish residents so they can obtain legal documents.

A number of the Chinese Catholic faithful have expressed regret over the Vatican agreement with the Chinese Communist government, saying it has emboldened officials in their persecution of Christians.

Lionsgate has agreed to co-produce The Devil’s Light, a supernatural thriller featuring a young American nun with a gift for casting out demons in the male-dominated world of exorcisms.

Pope Francis reached out to the people of Iraq Wednesday, sending his condolences for deaths and injuries suffered by protesters and promising his prayers.

The Catholic bishops of Poland have proposed to Pope Francis that Saint John Paul II, the first Polish pope, be recognized with the title “doctor of the Church.”

A group of regional leaders from the Amazon proposed Monday at the Vatican that rich nations be compelled to indemnify them for environmental damage caused in the so-called “lung of the planet.”

ROME — Leaders of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths signed a joint declaration in the Vatican Monday condemning euthanasia and assisted suicide as “inherently” evil acts that should be prohibited.

Pope Francis announced Friday that the fertility statuettes tossed in the Tiber River had been recovered and suggested he may have them placed in Saint Peter’s Basilica for the final Mass of the Amazon synod.

The archbishop of Luxembourg said this week that climate change is the most important issue faced by the Vatican synod on the Amazon, so its final document “should be very strong” on ecological issues.

The archbishop of Mexico City said this week in Rome that climate change skeptics are the “black sheep” of the Catholic Church since environmental “experts” believe we are near a point of no return.

Pope Francis said Wednesday that Christianity is a big tent that welcomes everyone, including pagans, but insists that they “reject idolatry and all its expressions” as a condition for following Christ.

Wooden Amazon fertility statuettes were removed from a church near the Vatican and thrown into the Tiber River Monday.

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent greetings to Hindus around the world Monday, wishing them a fruitful feast of Deepavali, to be celebrated on October 27.

Pope Francis employed ecological language to describe the Christian mission Sunday, summarizing the task of Jesus’ disciples as giving “pure and fresh air to those immersed in the pollution of our world.”

A prominent Vatican cardinal declared Saturday that the promoters of the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon are “obviously being instrumentalized in order to push an agenda.”

The Vatican synod of bishops on the Amazon region receives significant financing from the pro-abortion Ford Foundation, reveals investigative Vatican reporter Edward Pentin.

Pope Francis said that there is a “distorted relationship between food and nutrition” in the world, resulting in both world hunger and obesity, even in poorer nations.

The Vatican announced the resignation of its head of security Monday in the midst of a growing financial scandal over massive investments in London real estate.

Pope Francis tweeted out thanks for newly canonized Catholic saints Sunday, but mistakenly used the hashtag of the New Orleans Saints football team, bringing down an avalanche of jocular commentary.

Pope Francis called attention to the plight of Syria Sunday, as a Turkey steps up its assault on Kurds in the northeast of the country.

The Prince of Wales has written a tribute for the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano asserting that Sunday’s canonization of John Henry Newman is “a cause of celebration not merely in the United Kingdom, and not merely for Catholics, but for all who cherish the values by which he was inspired.”

The Vatican has issued a stronger statement to refute claims alleging that Pope Francis has said Jesus Christ is not God, as there have been complaints of an earlier “tepid” response.

Many missionaries in Latin America are still living in the 1970s, a papal appointee to the Vatican Synod on the Amazon said Wednesday, as if Marxist class struggle were more important than the gospel message.

The former doctrinal chief of the U.S. Bishops Conference (USCCB) warned this week that Pope Francis is presiding over an “unprecedented new schism” in the Catholic Church of his own making.