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Connie Yates and Chris Gard are pictured with their son, Charlie Gard, who was born with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, in this undated family photo. The U.K. couple have lost their legal battle to keep Charlie on life-support and seek treatment for his rare disease in the United States. (CNS photo/family handout, courtesy Featureworld)
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Pope Francis calls for respecting Gard parents' wishes to care for dying child
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service

Pope Francis called for respecting the wishes of a terminally ill child's parents to accompany and care for their child "until the end."

Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, said the pope was following "with affection and emotion" the events concerning Charlie Gard, a 10-month-old infant born in England with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, which causes progressive muscle weakness, brain damage and respiratory or liver failure; it is typically fatal.

Charlie Gard, who was born in England with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, is pictured in this undated family photo. The baby's parent, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, have lost their legal battle to keep Charlie on life-support and seek treatment for his rare condition in the United States. (CNS photo/family handout, courtesy Featureworld)
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Holy See life academy offers prayers to parents of terminally ill baby
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Ten-month-old Charlie Gard was born in England with mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, which causes progressive muscle weakness, brain damage and respiratory or liver failure; it is typically fatal.
Pope Francis presents a box containing a pallium to Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., at the conclusion of Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 29. New archbishops from around the world received their palliums from the pope. The actual imposition of the pallium will take place in the archbishop's archdiocese. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Pope Francis tells archbishops not to be 'armchair Catholics,' but apostles on the go
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
People must ask themselves whether they are "'armchair Catholics,' who love to chat about how things are going in the church and the world," Pope Francis said, or if they are "apostles on the go," who are on fire with love for God and ready to offer their lives for him.
World Youth Day pilgrims listen as Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Conn., speaks in 2016 at Sacred Heart Church in Krakow, Poland. The October 2018 Synod of Bishops at the Vatican will focus on young people. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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Cramming for Synod, Vatican has some questions for young people
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The Vatican has released an online questionnaire to better understand the lives, attitudes and concerns of 16-to 29-year-olds around the world.
Pope Francis greets an elderly woman as he meets with people in a poor neighborhood in Asuncion, Paraguay, in this July 12, 2015, file photo. Pastoral care of the poor and those in need has been emphasis of the pontificate of Pope Francis. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Empty words do not help the poor, Pope Francis says in World Day of the Poor message
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
People cannot sit back and be indifferent or unresponsive to growing poverty in the world as a privileged minority accumulates "ostentatious wealth," Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis and Patti Gallagher Mansfield, a participant in the 1967 Pittsburgh retreat that marked the beginning of the Charismatic renewal, pray during a Pentecost vigil marking the 50th anniversary of the Catholic charismatic renewal at the Circus Maximus in Rome on June 3. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Women must have the opportunity to fully contribute to society, pope says
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
"Women are fully entitled to actively take part in all settings, and their rights must be affirmed and protected," the pope said.
A fresco showing Noah releasing doves, lower right, and other scenes representing salvation are seen during the unveiling of two newly restored burial chambers in the Christian catacombs of St. Domitilla in Rome on May 30. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) 
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Now you can explore the artwork of the world's oldest Christian cemetery
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The Catacombs of St. Domitilla are believed to be the world's oldest existing Christian cemetery and are among the largest in Italy with a total of some 150,000 burial spots.
Pope Francis greets Swedish Bishop Anders Arborelius of Stockholm in 2016 at the Vatican. Cardinal-designate Arborelius is one of five new cardinals the pope will create at a June 28 consistory. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)
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Sweden's first cardinal missioned with promoting church in largely secular country
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Cardinal-designate Anders Arborelius of Stockholm is Sweden's only Catholic bishop and the first native Swede to hold the post since the Protestant Reformation in the 1500s.
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God is no warlord claiming victory with enemies' blood, pope says at audience after meeting with Trump
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
"God does not like to be loved the way a warlord would like, dragging his people to victory, debasing them in the blood of his enemies."
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Pope Francis: Devil prefers a comfy, business-savvy church that overlooks truth
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service

The devil would like to see a church that never takes any risks, never speaks out with the truth and just settles on being wishy-washy, comfortable and business-savvy, Pope Francis said.

God's prophets always were persecuted because they created a disturbance, much like those today who denounce worldliness in the church and get ostracized, the pope said on May 23 during a morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.