AP News, by Josh Boak, Zeke Miller, Nicole Winfield: Face to face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended and highly personal talks with Pope Francis on Friday and came away saying the pontiff told him he was a…

NCR Online, by Christopher White: President Joe Biden praised Pope Francis as “the most significant warrior for peace I’ve ever met” during a closely watched meeting at the Vatican Oct. 29. The meeting between the two world leaders took place…

CNS News: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said at her press briefing on Wednesday afternoon that President Joe Biden “has a very personal relationship with Pope Francis. Earlier in the same briefing, when asked whether President Biden agreed with…

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AP News, by Sylvie Corbet: Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims first….

Vatican News, by Lydia O’Kane: When the Pope arrived for this Apostolic Visit to Slovakia on Sunday, the banners to greet him read “Viva Papa Francesco” or “Long Live Pope Francis.” As he departed on Wednesday, following the celebration of…

Vatican News, by Communiqué of the Holy See Press Office: Today, the Holy Father Francis received in audience the President of Ireland, His Excellency Mr. Michael D. Higgins, who subsequently met with His Eminence Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin,…

Vatican News, by Robin Gomes: The Abrahamic Family House, which encloses a synagogue, a church and a mosque in a single complex, and which is scheduled to be inaugurated in 2022, is 20 percent complete, the Higher Committee of Human…

LifeSite, by Michael Haynes: The Vatican is celebrating an ecumenical movement designed to promote “ecological conversion” and to respond to Pope Francis’s persistent calls to heed the “cry of the Earth.” Starting September 1, the World Day of Prayer for…

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Vatican News, by Linda Bordoni: Pope Francis has repeatedly appealed for prayers and international aid for Lebanon as its people and the millions of mostly Syrian refugees it hosts, bear the brunt of what the World Bank describes as one…

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