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Pope Francis on Wednesday vowed to work towards securing the release of four Israelis being held hostage by the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

Pope Francis laid out his economic vision Monday, insisting that there are no “free workers” without labor unions.

Pope Francis has denied rumors that he had “given it” to the conservative Catholic Opus Dei group when he demoted its leader from bishop to simple priest.

Pope Francis has revealed in an interview released Sunday that he signed a letter of resignation in case of health impediments years ago and delivered it to the Vatican Secretariat of State.

Pope Francis has compared the war in Ukraine to the coronavirus pandemic, lamenting that there is no vaccine for the “virus of war.”

Pope Francis has offered an analysis of the coronavirus pandemic in which all the negative fallout came from the disease itself rather than the human response to the problem.

Pope Francis urged vigilance against the snares of the devil Wednesday, especially when he dresses as an angel.

ROME — Pope Francis offered a dire vision of the future Monday, asserting as bad as things are now there are signs worse things are coming.

Russia’s foreign minister has eliminated the Vatican as a possible venue for peace negotiations following comments by Pope Francis that offended Moscow.

Pope Francis urged boys and girls to pray for children “forced to live the terrible and dark days of war” after his Angelus address Sunday.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged the Vatican not to place Ukraine and Russia on the same plane as if both share responsibility for the war.

Pope Francis has praised the bishop of Brownsville Texas for his diocese’s work with immigrants, comparing the latter to Jesus Christ himself.

Pope Francis employed his strongest rhetoric to date Wednesday in condemning Russia’s war on Ukraine, tying it to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people during World War II.

Pope Francis railed against hypocrisy Sunday, urging his hearers to live authentically and take off their masks.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has provoked a series of collateral crises around the world, Pope Francis asserted Friday.

Pope Francis requested prayers Friday, or at least “good vibes” from those who do not know how to pray or do not believe in God.

The Holy See’s website was shut down for many hours Wednesday by a cyber-attack after the Vatican offended both Russia and China in past days.

A Chinese government representative declared this week that he was “not aware” of the demotion and relocation of a Catholic bishop in violation of the 2018 Sino-Vatican accord on the appointment of bishops.

Pope Francis asserted this week that real Catholics reject polarization in a spirit of embracing and harmonizing differences.

The Russian government has protested Pope Francis’s latest comments on the war in Ukraine, in which he claimed that the “cruelest” soldiers are not Russian but outsiders like “the Chechens” and “the Buryati” who fight on the Russian side.

Stalin’s Holodomor genocide of millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s was a “historical antecedent” to Russia’s current armed aggression, Pope Francis said in an interview published Monday.

Pope Francis is mourning the death of a homeless German man who died just outside the Vatican this week, the Holy See reported.

The Vatican has registered its “surprise and regret” over China’s unilateral decision to demote and relocate a Catholic bishop without the approval of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis has written a letter to the people of Ukraine marking nine months since the outbreak of war on their soil.

Cardinal Joseph Zen has been found guilty together with 5 others of failing to properly register the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which provided legal and medical aid to jailed protesters of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement.

Pope Francis called on the International Theological Commission Thursday to increase the number of women in its ranks, insisting they make theology “tastier.”

Pope Francis tied Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine to Joseph Stalin’s 1930s Holodomor, when the Soviet leader engineered a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.

Pope Francis railed against systemic injustice Tuesday in an address to members of the World Jewish Congress in the Vatican.

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Moscow Patriarch Kirill Sunday for his wise leadership and careful oversight of church-state relations.

The United States Embassy to the Holy See celebrated “Transgender Day of Remembrance” Sunday, offering tribute “to those of the transgender community who have been murdered because of hate.”

Pope Francis called on young people to be “transgressive” Sunday instead of conforming to the expectations of the world.

Aachen bishop Helmut Dieser has called on the Catholic Church to adopt a new vision of homosexuality just prior to visiting Pope Francis in the Vatican.

Pope Francis has reached out to the victims of a terrorist attack that killed six people in Istanbul Sunday, wounding 80 more.

Pope Francis condemned conservative populists Sunday, accusing them of exploiting people’s real needs with “facile and hasty solutions.”

Pope Francis warned of false “prophets of doom” Sunday while simultaneously threatening a looming climate change “crisis” that could wreak untold damage on humanity.

Pope Francis came to the defense of pro-LGBT Jesuit Father James Martin Saturday, praising him as a “man of values.”