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VatiLeaks: Investigator says consultant admitted leaking documents

May 24, 2016

VATICAN CITY – A former consultant to a pontifical commission who denied to a Vatican court that she leaked documents about the Vatican's financial reform to an Italian journalist had admitted to sending the documents when she was first interrogated, a Vatican policeman said.

Pope meets with head of top Sunni Muslim university, easing past tension

May 24, 2016

VATICAN CITY – After five years of tension and top-level silence, Pope Francis and the grand imam of one of the most important Sunni Muslim universities in the world embraced at the Vatican May 23.

Priest in Vietnam released before Obama's visit

May 24, 2016

HUE, Vietnam – Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly, a human rights campaigner jailed by Vietnamese authorities, was released from prison three days ahead of the May 22 arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Speakers discuss refugees' plight, 'shared responsibility' for resettlement

May 23, 2016

WASHINGTON – "There is a right to seek a better place for yourself and your children, but there is also a right to stay where you are," said Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick at a conference in Washington May 18.

Franciscan tasked with locating, preparing bones of Albania's martyrs

May 22, 2016

SHKODER, Albania – Human bones, old shoes and deteriorating priest collars fill cardboard boxes in the office of Franciscan Brother Vincenzo Foca, an Italian who lives and works in Shkoder.

Archbishop: Anti-Semitism ‘embedded’ in British culture

May 21, 2016

CANTERBURY, England – Anti-Semitism is “deeply embedded” in British culture, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said.

Slovak nun, shot in South Sudan, dies in Nairobi hospital

May 20, 2016

NAIROBI, Kenya – A Slovak nun shot and wounded in Yei, South Sudan, died May 20 at a hospital in Nairobi.

Vatican approves election of Italian Franciscan as 'custos' of Holy Land

May 20, 2016

JERUSALEM – The Holy See has approved the election of Franciscan Father Francesco Patton as the new "custos" of the Holy Land, replacing Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who held the position for 12 years.

Prominent French priest and Vatican adviser accused in sex scandal

May 20, 2016

For years, seminaries and monasteries around France sent students and novices to Monsignor Tony Anatrella, a prominent French priest and therapist who has written disparagingly of gays, if their superiors decided the young men were struggling with homosexuality.

Pope to visit Ireland for 2018 meeting of families

May 20, 2016

DUBLIN – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin confirmed that Pope Francis, or his successor, will visit Ireland in 2018 for the World Meeting of Families.