Vatican: Bishops should be led by pope on family
By NICOLE WINFIELD The Vatican urged bishops on Tuesday to be guided by Pope Francis and the “turning point” of a recent meeting on family issues that sought to provide…
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Pope Francis says truth must prevail in Dominican sex case
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis assured Dominican authorities on Wednesday that the truth must prevail in the case of his former ambassador to the Caribbean country who is accused of…
Pope Francis, patriarch demand end to IS attacks
By NICOLE WINFIELD and SUZAN FRASER Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians demanded an end to the persecution of religious minorities in Syria and Iraq…
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…
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…