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    Retired Pope Benedict ‘ill after visit to Germany’

    Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has fallen ill after returning to Italy from a trip to his native Bavaria to visit his brother, who died a month ago, a German newspaper has reported. The daily Passauer Neue Presse quoted Peter Seewald, a biographer

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    Pope to deliver blessings via video-link to help contain coronavirus spread

    Pope Francis will deliver his next two public blessings via video to prevent crowds from gathering, as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus. The Vatican said in a statement on Saturday that Francis will not hold his Sunday noon blessing

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    Pope sorry for ‘losing patience’ with well-wisher who grabbed his hand

    Pope Francis has apologised for hitting the hand of a well-wisher who grabbed him and yanked him towards her. In his new year wishes to the public in St Peter's Square, Francis confessed to losing his patience with the woman while he was

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    Pope shunned ring-kissing because he did not want to spread germs, Vatican says

    Pope Francis has set the record straight about why he pulled his hand away when throngs of people lined up this week to kiss his ring: for fear of spreading germs. Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said that Francis was concerned about hygiene

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    Pope pulls back from ring-kissers

    A new video suggests that Pope Francis wants no part of the ring-kissing tradition. The Pope was greeting worshippers at the Italian pilgrimage site dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Loreto on Monday when he was seen flinching as the faithful

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    Vatican defrocks former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick over sex abuse

    Pope Francis has defrocked former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing Confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said on Saturday. The punishment

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    The feminist symbolism connecting recent 'Time' covers is pretty powerful

    Time magazine’s latest cover, starring the female-first cast of A Wrinkle In Time, is evoking comparisons to last week’s issue, dedicated to “Person of the Year: The Silence Breakers,” both a homage to fearless women. The film stars Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Oprah, and Storm Reid (of 12 Years a Slave) and according to Time, producer Catherine Hand made the film 54 years after she, as a 10-year-old, penned a 1963 letter to Walt Disney, begging the movie man to remake her beloved childhood