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Italian Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's secretary of state, has been released from hospital after a ten day stay.

Vatican secretary of state released from hospital

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VATICAN CITY - Ten days after he took office as Vatican secretary of state, Archbishop Pietro Parolin was released from the hospital Oct. 25, following surgery for an unspecified illness.

The Congregation of Notre Dame’s chapel of Santa Maria del Camino, one of the outlying mission areas where the order has served in its 25 years in El Salvador.

Notre Dame Sisters’ presence still strong, and needed, in El Salvador

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There was a time in El Salvador when Sr. Jeannette Bolduc and Sr. Amabilis Deveau used to carefully scan a bus before they got on board. If there was a soldier on the bus, they would wait for the next one.

Britain's Prince William carries his son, Prince George, as he arrives with his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, for their son's christening at St James's Palace in London Oct. 23. Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the leader of the wo rldwide Anglican Communion, told the parents to "make sure he knows who Jesus is."

Advice to royal parents: Pray, talk to the prince about Jesus

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LONDON (CNS) - The leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion told the parents of the future British king to "make sure he knows who Jesus is."

Pope Francis

Christians, Jews must fight discrimination together, pope says

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Christians and Jews must work together to fight all forms of discrimination and persecution, Pope Francis told a delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg, Germany, celebrates Mass in early September in Limburg. Pope Francis has authorized a leave of absence for Bishop Tebartz-van Elst, at the center of controversy over expenditures for his residence and dioce san center.

Pope authorizes leave of absence for German 'luxury bishop' 

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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has authorized a leave of absence for a German bishop at the centre of controversy over expenditures for his residence and diocesan centre.

Archbishop Gerhard Muller

Vatican official reaffirms teaching on divorced, remarried Catholics 

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VATICAN CITY - Amid rising expectations that the Catholic Church might make it easier for divorced and remarried members to receive Communion, the Vatican's highest doctrinal official reaffirmed Church teaching barring such persons from the sacrament without an annulment of their first, sacramental marriage.

Pope John Paul I, known as the smiling pope, is pictured at the Vatican in 1978. He served one of the shortest papacies — 33 days. Born Albino Luciani, he was the cardinal of Venice, Italy, when he was elected pope. He died Sept. 28, 1978

Discovering the real John Paul I

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VATICAN CITY - “May God forgive you for what you have done,” the newly elected pope told the cardinals who elevated him to the highest office in the Catholic Church.

Later, he recounted the critical moments of voting in the Sistine Chapel: “As soon as the danger for me had begun, the two colleagues who were beside me whispered words of encouragement.”

Pope Francis is greeted during a meeting with members of the Lutheran World Federation at the Vatican Oct. 21.

Pope says Catholics, Lutherans must ask pardon for harming one another

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - As the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation approaches, "Catholics and Lutherans can ask forgiveness for the harm they have caused one another and for their offenses committed in the sight of God," Pope Francis said.

Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Limburg, Germany, leaves a meeting of the Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization at the Vatican in this Oct. 19, 2012, file photo. The bishop is under intense scrutiny after allegedly spending close to $40 milli on in renovations and new construction on his residence and diocesan offices.

Pope meets German bishop at center of spending controversy

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - After giving a morning Mass homily on the virtue of poverty, Pope Francis held a private meeting Oct. 21 with a German bishop under fire for a massive building project that critics have denounced as extravagant.

Next October’s Synod of Bishops is expected to discuss annulments and problems divorced and remarried Catholics face.

Pope raises hopes of remarried Catholics

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Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage according to Frank Sinatra, Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, but not according to canon law. Which may come as a surprise to some people.

Pope Pius XII greets people on his 80th birthday, March 2, 1956, in this frame from a film from the Vatican Film Library. The Vatican has a collection of more than 8,000 films, the oldest an 1896 short reel of Pope Leo XIII.

Celluloid heaven: how popes took church, Gospel to the big screen

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - When Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter in 2012 and Pope Francis appeared on Instagram the following year, media watchers may have thought they were witnessing a Vatican revolution. In both cases, however, the pontiffs were merely following in a long tradition.

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