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Tens of thousands of Hungarians gathered on the bank of the Danube in downtown Budapest for visiting Pope Francis‘ final Mass on Sunday. The Vatican, citing local organizers, said some 50,000 people participated, with more than 30,000 of them in the Kossuth Lajos Square on a sunny spring morning. Among them were President Katalin Novak and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Francis…
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Former pope Benedict XVI, who became the first pontiff to resign in some 600 years, has died aged 95. Pope Francis, who replaced him as head of the Catholic Church, had asked the faithful to pray for him at the end of his general audience on Wednesday morning. The Vatican said Benedict’s body will lie in state…
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A group, Concerned Catholics in Nigeria has cautioned Plateau State governor, and Director-General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation, Simon Lalong against dragging Pope Francis and the Catholic Church into local politics in Nigeria. The organisation was reacting to the comment made by Lalong on Wednesday, where the governor had said he was…
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The most senior Catholic convicted of child sex abuse was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for molesting two choirboys in an Australian cathedral in a crime the judge said showed “staggering arrogance.” Image: Cardinal George Pell Cardinal George Pell must serve a minimum of 3 years and 8 months before he is eligible…
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Two Catholic nuns were found dead in their Mississippi home, after they reportedly skipped work at a nearby hospital. Both nurses died on Thursday, authorities said. One nun is a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky. The other is part of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee. Their bodies were taken…
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