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In a file photo, Pope Francis walks next to Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias as he leaves the morning session of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2014. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.)

Pope accepts resignation of Cardinal Gracias, 80, as Archbishop of Bombay

Jan 25
Nirmala Carvalho

Pope Francis greets then-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik during a private audience at the Vatican in this Jan. 3, 2022. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Rupnik case casts shadow on Vatican’s commitment to fight abuse

Jan 26
Charles Collins

José Enrique Escardó (right) meets Pope Francis at the Vatican on Jan. 24, 2025. (Credit: Courtesy of José Enrique Escardó.)

Pope ‘disgusted’ by abuse in Peru-based group, ready to act, survivor says

Jan 25
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Francis with now-Cardinal George Jakob Koovakad aboard the papal plane in 2021. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Francis names Syro-Malabar cardinal to head Interreligious Dialogue dicastery

Jan 25
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Amid low point in Vatican-Israel relations, Francis condemns anti-Semitism on Auschwitz anniversary

This is a 1958 image of the Auschwitz extermination camp. (Credit: AP.)

Amid low point in Vatican-Israel relations, Francis condemns anti-Semitism on Auschwitz anniversary

Jan 27
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Archbishop of Lima Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne celebrates Mass Jan. 18, 2001, in Lima, Peru. (Credit: Martin Mejia/AP.)

Once powerful Peru cardinal denies allegations of sexual abuse

Jan 27
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Then Vice President-elect JD Vance speaks at the National Gallery of art in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP.)

Vice President Vance says U.S. bishops should ‘do better’ on supporting immigration enforcement

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High school students at a school in Mali. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Removal of subsidies to Catholic schools in Mali could harm inter-religious dialogue

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