August 2, 2016 Pope sets up Vatican panel to study female deacons issue Pope Francis has set up a panel to study whether women could serve as deacons, a role now reserved to men.
August 1, 2016 World Youth Day: A Worldwide Mission Pilgrims celebrated this event not just in Poland but all over America.
August 1, 2016 Pope Francis: Not right to talk about a 'violent, terrorist' Islam Pope Francis on Sunday said he won't label Islam as "terrorist" because that would be unfair and not true.
July 31, 2016 Pope urges young people to 'believe in a new humanity' as World Youth Day ends Pope Francis on Sunday encouraged hundreds of thousands of young people gathered in southern Poland to "believe in a new humanity," which is stronger than evil and refuses to use borders as barriers.
July 30, 2016 Pope Francis tells young people to 'leave a mark,' not 'take it easy' Pope Francis challenged hundreds of thousands of young people who gathered in a sprawling Polish meadow to reject being a "couch potato" who retreats into video games and computer screens and instead engage in social activism and politics to create a more just world.
July 29, 2016 Pope visits Auschwitz in silence, meets survivors Pope Francis paid a somber visit in silence to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, with his only public comment a guest book entry begging God "forgiveness for so much cruelty."
July 28, 2016 Love, Prayer, Commitment at World Youth Day A marriage proposal goes viral as the sacrament and faith are celebrated.
July 28, 2016 Pope Francis falls during mass in Poland; uninjured Pope Francis, visiting a shrine cherished by Poles, praised native son St. John Paul II on Thursday as a "meek and powerful" herald of mercy, and honored the countless "ordinary yet remarkable people" in Poland who held firm to their Catholic faith throughout adversity in the former Communist nation.
July 11, 2016 Former Fox News journalist named Vatican spokesman Pope Francis on Monday named a former Fox TV correspondent, Greg Burke, as his spokesman and tapped a Spanish woman to be the deputy, the first time a woman has held the post.
July 7, 2016 Vatican convicts 2 in leaks scandal; journalists cleared A Vatican court declared Thursday it had no jurisdiction to prosecute or convict two journalists for having published confidential information, ending an eight-month trial that drew scorn from media rights groups around the world.
