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- Dec 12, 2019
'The Two Popes' is a fun, if historically inaccurate, look at Francis and Benedict

"The Two Popes," the latest attempt to tell the story of Pope Francis’s relationship with his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI, is as much an imaginary conversation as an honest attempt to convey how the two leaders actually interacted.
- Church in Asia
- Dec 12, 2019
Advent program aims to help young people of Mumbai

An annual Advent campaign in Mumbai is focused on children this year, with a special emphasis on protecting their rights.
- News Analysis
- Dec 11, 2019
In Tagle, Pope strengthens his Vatican hand and sets up possible successor

Personnel is always policy in the Eternal City, which makes Pope Francis’s choice Sunday to name the 62-year-old Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila in the Philippines the new prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples a key move indeed.
- Church in the Americas
- Dec 12, 2019
Latin America turns to Our Lady of Guadalupe in plea for peace

With much of Latin America in the throes of social and political unrest, which in most cases has endured for months, the continent’s bishops have turned to Our Lady of Guadalupe, the so-called “Empress of the Americas” and Latin America's most famous woman, to lend a hand in the effort for peace.
- Vatican
- Dec 12, 2019
Pope says that peace comes in a shade of green, or not at all

In an annual message for the World Day of Peace, which is celebrated on Jan. 1, the pope implied that violence toward humanity and violence toward the planet go hand in hand.

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