Pope, USCCB president pray for victims of Egyptian mosque attack

Pope Francis led pilgrims in prayer for the victims of a bombing at a mosque in Egypt's northern Sinai region.
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Mass is a time of silence and prayer, not idle chitchat, pope says

"The encounter with God is a living encounter," the pope said departing from his prepared remarks. "It is not an encounter of a museum, it is a living encounter. And we go to Mass, not a museum!"
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Pope puts John Paul I on path to sainthood, declares him ‘venerable’

Pope John Paul I, known as the smiling pope, is pictured at the Vatican in 1978. Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul I with a decree recognizing his heroic virtues. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
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Pope bans cigarette sales at the Vatican

Concerned by the damage caused by smoking, Pope Francis has banned the sale of cigarettes in Vatican City State.
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Pope takes questions from children in hurricane-hit Texas, Puerto Rico

Pope Francis said that there are no easy answers to the suffering and destruction wrought by hurricanes and that while such disasters happen naturally, humankind must also take responsibility for not caring for the environment.
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Anti-nuclear coalition wins 2017 Nobel Peace Prize

Launched in 2007, ICAN is a coalition of nongovernmental organizations in 101 countries aimed at promoting global nuclear disarmament.
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Salesian priest recounts harrowing tale of his capture, liberation

Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil was sitting in a room in an unknown location -- one of several he had been relocated to during his 18-month imprisonment -- when he received some unexpected news.
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Vatican reform process ‘nearly complete,’ C9 member says

Pope Francis' international Council of Cardinals —the so-called C9 — is nearly done with its work of advising the pope on a major reform of the Vatican bureaucracy
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Freed Indian Salesian meets Pope Francis

Father Uzhunnalil was kidnapped March 4, 2016, from a home for the aged and disabled run by the Missionaries of Charity in Aden, Yemen.
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Cardinal Caffarra, outspoken defender of marriage, family, dead at 79

Italian Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, retired archbishop of Bologna and founder of the Pope John Paul II Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, died Sept. 6 at the age of 79.
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Vatican II liturgical reform ‘irreversible,’ pope says

The Catholic Church must continue to work to understand the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and why they were made, rather than rethinking them, Pope Francis said.
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