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The late Polish pope John Paul II knew about child abuse in Poland’s Catholic church years before becoming pontiff and helped cover it up, a new report has claimed.   Michal Gutowski, the investigator behind the report for private broadcaster TVN, said the late Pope knew of cases of paedophile …

  Pope Francis waves to the crowds from his popemobile at the John Garang mausoleum in Juba before delivering an open-air mass. By Simon MAINA (AFP) Pope Francis flew home Sunday with the leaders of the Anglican and Scottish churches after a joint trip to violence-plagued South Sudan, where he …

It took years for Marie Louise Wambale to re-establish her life after fighting between M23 rebels and the army of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the country’s eastern region forced her to flee with almost nothing about a decade ago. Like most Catholics in the eastern DRC, …

On Thursday, January 5, 2022, the final funeral rites for Pope Benedict XVI was held at St. Peters Square in the Vatican. The ceremony followed three days of public viewing of the late pope’s body laid in state. Right before his wooden coffin was closed, the late pope’s personal secretary, …

God works through those who work for him. God is the one who does the miracle; the pope is just a servant. This miracle doesn’t come from Satan, because a bad tree can’t give good fruits, like healing, family peace, and a thankful heart. God loves us. A couple from …

  Day one of the three-day display of the body of the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI commenced on Monday, January 2, 2022. The body of the former leader of the Catholic Church was laid in state in the Vatican with some 40,000 people filing past in the first five …

Tens of thousands of people are expected to pay their respects to former Pope Benedict XVI when his lying in state begins at the Vatican later. He died on New Year’s Eve at the age of 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ill health. Pope Francis will …

Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent …

Former Pope Benedict is “absolutely lucid and alert” and his condition is serious but stable, the Vatican has said.   The update comes a day after Pope Francis said his predecessor Benedict XVI is “very sick” and asked the faithful to pray for the retired pontiff so God will comfort him “to …

Leader of the Roman Catholic church, Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is “very sick” after a deterioration in his health on Wednesday.   “I want to ask you all for a special prayer for …