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Pope Francis greets young detainees before leaving Las Garzas youth detention centre in Pacora, on the outskirts of Panama City, on January 25, 2019, during his visit to Panama for World Youth Day. (Photo: AFP)

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Concrete change' for Vatican

Church sex abuse summit a bid to usher in formidable change.

26 Jan 2019 8:11 PM IST

The trial ran for five weeks in Victoria county Court. (Photo:AP)

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Top Vatican cleric Cardinal Pell convicted of child sex abuse

Australia's senior most Catholic cleric Cardinal George Pell has been found guilty of five counts of child sexual...

26 Feb 2019 8:22 AM IST

$Pope Francis promised an \all-out battle\ against abusive priests, but blamed the devil and insisted the Church was not the only place children were assaulted. (Photo: AFP)$ Life

Vatican summit on clerical paedophilia a let-down

Pope's vow to battle child sex abuse fails to appease victims, critics.

25 Feb 2019 8:21 PM IST

Pope Francis poses for a photo with a group of priests at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican recently. (Photo: AP)

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Vatican's legal recourse for tackling for sex abuse

Catholic Church's regulations for investigation of, both priests accused of molestation and superiors accused of...

21 Feb 2019 7:34 PM IST

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Pope Francis hurt by Turkey's decision to turn Hagia Sophia into a...

'My thoughts go to Istanbul. I think of Santa Sophia and I am very pained,' the Pope said during his weekly blessing in...

13 July 2020 12:17 PM IST

$In this file photograph taken on December 25, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his first Christmas Day \Urbi et Orbi\ (the city and the world) message to pilgrims and tourists on St Peters Square at The Vatican. - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a German theologian whose 2013 resignation took the world by surprise, died on December 31, 2022, at age 95, the Vatican announced. (Photo: AFP)$ World