Topline Former Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI remains “stable,” the Vatican said Thursday, after Pope Francis asked for prayers for his 95-year-old predecessor over ill health. Pope Benedict XVI gives Chr...
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Pope Francis Condemns Russia’s Annexation Of Eastern Ukraine—And Urges Putin To Stop ‘Spiral Of Violence And Death’
Topline Pope Francis made his first personal appeal for Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine on Sunday, days after Putin announced Russia w...
Pope Francis Will Appoint First Women To Bishop Selection Committee
Topline Pope Francis said he plans to appoint the first women in history to a Vatican committee that helps to select bishops, in a Wednesday interview with Reuters, a month after he amended the consti...
Pope Dismisses Resignation Rumors As ‘Court Gossip’
Topline Pope Francis dismissed speculation about his poor health and plans to resign in the near future, according to an interview with Reuters published Monday, hinting at possible trips to Moscow an...
Pope Decries Russian ‘Cruelty’ In Ukraine But Suggests War Was ‘Provoked’
Topline Pope Francis once again criticized the “brutality and ferocity” of Russian troops in their ongoing invasion of Ukraine in a conversation with the European Jesuit media published on Tuesday, st...
Pope Seeks Putin Meeting And Compares Russian ‘Brutality’ To Rwandan Genocide
Topline Pope Francis said he’s offered to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in an interview published Tuesday that included his firmest condemnation yet of Putin, comparing the viol...