Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a message read by his secretary of state to a women’s advocacy group meeting ahead of the G-20 summit, Pope Francis called for greater female leadership in world affairs on Monday (Oct. 18), telling the Women’s Forum G-20 that “our world needs the collaboration of…

(RNS) — Over the weekend, Pope Francis issued a string of passionate tweets on social justice, a topic that has marked his papacy. The normal papal output under Francis has generally been one to three Tweets a day. Some days have gone by with no Tweets. This past weekend, he…

WASHINGTON - US President Joe Biden, America's second Catholic president, and his wife Jill will have an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on October 29, the White House announced Thursday.  Biden's Vatican visit will come ahead of his participation in the G20 summit in Rome on October 30-31.…

This handout picture taken and released on October 10, 2021 by Vatican Media shows Pope Francis (R) greeting nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez at the end of the mass in St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican. (Photo by ho / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP)Pope Francis on Sunday met with Gloria Cecilia Narvaez,…

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ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis, closing a peace meeting of world religions, called the arms trade a bane of humanity on Thursday, saying that money spent on weapons should be diverted to feed the hungry and distribute vaccines fairly. "Fewer arms and more food, less hypocrisy and more transparency, more…

A convicted murderer has been executed in Missouri after both the state's governor and the US Supreme Court declined to grant clemency sought by Pope Francis on the grounds that the man was intellectually disabled. Ernest Johnson, 61, was found guilty of killing three convenience store employees in 1994. He…

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