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Gerard O’Connell is America’s Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
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“It’s not about scaremongering. It’s about protecting children from abuse on the internet.”
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The pope “offers the promise of his prayers for the injured and for all who have died, entrusting them to the merciful love of Almighty God.”
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A pioneering international congress on the risks to children in the digital world will be hosted by the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from Oct. 3 to 6.
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In an interview with America, Sister Normal Pimental talks about her involvement with Pope Francis' "Share the Journey" campaign.
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The Caritas campaign is calling for a week of prayer and action for the world’s 66 million forcibly displaced people, running from Oct. 7 through 13.
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“The trigger to violence and the aggressive response are lamentable,” Cardinal Bo said in his carefully worded statement.
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The Vatican has accused its first-ever auditor general of “going beyond his powers" in hiring an external firm to carry out investigations on the private lives of officials of the Holy See. The announcement comes after the auditor-general, Libero Milone, who resigned last June, broke his silence on Saturday and told reporters that he had been forced to resign or face arrest on fabricated charges. He claims that what happened was part of an effort by the old guard to slow down Pope Francis’ reform of Vatican finances.
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Cardinal Patrick D’Rozario, the archbishop of Dhaka, has described the recent attack on the Rohingya community in Myanmar, as “a crime against humanity.”
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Pope Francis promised "zero tolerance" in his remarks to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
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The mandate for the new institute has “Amoris Laetitia” as its lodestar.