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For decades, unwed mothers in Italy were pressured to give up children born out of wedlock. Thousands were sent to America.

On Monday Italian Cardinal Mattel Zuppi, Pope Francis’s personal peace envoy for the war in Ukraine, arrived in Moscow for ...

Pope Francis asked that the cardinals embody “the three attitudes with which an Argentinean poet—Francisco Luis ...

The meeting with around a dozen LGBT activists comes six months after the Vatican’s doctrinal office [USN:L5N3GH22K ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived at the Vatican on Friday, 11 October. Source: European Pravda, citing ANSA ...

During a meeting that lasted 35 minutes, the pope reportedly presented Ukraine's head of state with a bronze bas-relief with ...

The new cardinals will get their red hats at a ceremony, known as a consistory, on Dec. 8, an important feast day on its own ...

The Vatican on Saturday published the schedule for Pope Francis’ consistory to create new cardinals, stating that the liturgy ...

Pope Francis met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the Vatican on Friday for their second face-to-face encounter in ...

The cardinal’s trip to Moscow is to “evaluate further efforts to promote family reunification of Ukrainian children and the ...

Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy focused their discussion on the repatriation of Ukrainian nationals ...