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Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has bubbled up ever since Francis laid his hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair after celebrating Sunday Mass in St.

In Cuba , the Communist Party, through its Office of Religious Affairs, continued to monitor and control most aspects of religious life.

The first-ever statue of Pope Francis has been unveiled in a potato field near Naples - an unorthodox homage to the fact that the Argentine pope's ancestors were farmers in northern Italy.

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

Missio officially launches to offer users Vatican news and the Pope's homilies, making for an interesting case study in one of the world's oldest organizations keeping up with modern technologies.

The recent dedication of George W. Bush's presidential library in Texas briefly rekindled debate about the defining event of his presidency, the Iraq War.

Spokane CATholics know o pets were permitted in the papal residence in Vatican City.

Over the past week, Pope Francis has launched a crescendo of attacks on the global financial system and what he calls a "cult of money" that does not help the poor.

You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass.

TWO of the most senior archbishops in the country have differed on whether pro-choice Catholics should be prevented from receiving communion.

Denver, Colo., May 19, 2013 / 06:02 am .- On May 25, the Catholic Church celebrates Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, an Italian noblewoman of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries who became a Carmelite nun distinguished for her intense prayer life and devotion to frequent Holy Communion.

Father Alban Riley at the Westminster Abbey in Mission, which was built in the 1950s.

The Catholic Church unveiled a new iPad application this week, intended to keep the faithful abreast of Vatican comings-and-goings, as well as other news from the church's missions throughout the world.

POPE Frannie is bedding in nicely, having told Cardinal O'B a whisky and frisky priest to forget about retiring to Dunbar and head elsewhere, possibly via Ryanair, "for the purpose of spiritual renewal, prayer and penance". POPE Frannie is bedding in nicely, having told Cardinal O'B a whisky and frisky priest to forget about retiring to Dunbar and ... (more)

An attempt by politicians in Ireland to alter their country's ban on abortion reaches Massachusetts on Monday when Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny gives an address to graduates at Boston College, a Catholic university.

This week, Bernard Sanders, the socialist independent U.S. Senator from Vermont, stood up in front of his colleagues to quote the Pope.

Pope Francis met on May 17 with directors of the Pontifical Missionary Works , and urged them to "keep evangelization, the paradigm of every act of the Church, alive." The Pope said that POM is distinguished by the fact that it is "at the Bishop of Rome's direct disposal," but went on to say that the mission to spread the faith involves every ... (more)

Cagliari, Italy, May 17, 2013 / 05:05 am .- Father Giovannino Tolu said his heart began racing when he heard that Pope Francis will the visit the shrine he oversees on the Italian island of Sardinia, making it the fourth time he has received a pontiff.

"I found Oakland to be the biggest surprise of my life," said the Most Rev. Alex J. Brunett, who since Oct.

There is nothing unusual about a Catholic leader urging priests to draw closer to their flocks, to focus on day-to-day issues that bridge the gap between pulpit and pew.