UN COMMITTEE BLASTS VATICAN ON SEX AB– USE, ABORTION
By NICOLE WINFIELD Kirsten Sandberg, center, chairperson of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks to committee members Maria Herczog, right, and Benyam Mezmur during…
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HERO OR TRAITOR? POPE’S AIDE IN POLISH CONTROVERSY
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA FILE – In this May 4, 1996 file photo, Pope John Paul II, right, is helped by his personal secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, as he arrives in Como,…
POPE TELLS MISSIONARY GROUP TO RESPECT CULTURE
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis attends an audience with members of the Neocatechumenal Way missionary movement, in the Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. Francis met…
VATICAN BANK ADMITS WIDOWS FELL VICTIM TO GLITCH
By NICOLE WINFIELD FILE – In this Monday, June 10, 2013 file photo, Ernst von Freyberg, president of the Vatican Bank I.O.R. (Istituto per le Opere Religiose), talks with the…
VATICAN FACING UN SHOWDOWN ON SEX AB– USE RECORD
By NICOLE WINFIELD and JOHN HEILPRIN FILE – In this Feb. 8, 2012 file photo Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Holy See’s chief sex crimes prosecutor, meets journalists in Rome. The…
EGYPT HOLDS KEY VOTE ON COUNTRY’S NEW CHARTER
By MAGGIE MICHAEL and SARAH EL DEEB Egyptians women show their inked fingers after casting their votes at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Egyptians are…
POPE NAMES 19 NEW CARDINALS, FOCUSING ON THE POOR
By FRANCES D’EMILIO FILE – In this Nov. 30, 2013 file photo Vatican Secretary of State Archbishop Pietro Parolin waves to faithful prior to the start of Pope Francis’s Vespers…
POPE TO TRAVEL TO HOLY LAND MAY 24-26
Pope Francis waves as he leaves Rome’s Jesus’ Church to celebrate a mass with the Jesuits, on the occasion of the order’s titular feast, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo…