NBC News: Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t…

Reuters, by Philip Pullella: The Vatican’s top administrators would have been expecting an exchange of pleasantries at their annual Christmas meeting with Pope Francis on Monday. Instead, he chose the occasion to issue a stinging critique, telling the priests, bishops…

Vatican New, by Lisa Zengarini: Welcoming 200 members of the Executive Committee of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) lead by its President Ronald S. Lauder, on Tuesday, Pope Francis said the common religious heritage of Jews and Christians should be…

Vatican News: Pope Francis on Saturday appointed the Most Reverend Noel Treanor as Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union. A statement released by the Holy See Press Office said the Pope also elevated the Irish Bishop of Down and Connor…

France 24: Macron, accompanied by his wife Brigitte, arrived at the Vatican and was greeted with an honour guard of Swiss Guards in the San Damaso courtyard before taking an elevator to the official papal study in the Apostolic Palace….

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CNS News: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a speech on the House floor on Friday as the chamber was preparing to vote on the Inflation Reduction Act in which she declared that that act was about “values espoused by Pope…

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AP News, by Nicole Winfield and Peter Smith: Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their…

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CNS News: Pope Francis met today at the Vatican with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) and her husband Paul Pelosi, just two days after the speaker had publicly declared her commitment to pushing Congress to enact legislation “to enshrine Roe v….

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