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    ‘I’m a good Catholic, I swear!’: Madonna asks Pope Francis to meet and discuss her ‘blasphemous’ behaviour

    07 May 2022

    The singer’s 1989 music video for the song “Like a Prayer” – featuring burning crosses and a sacrilegious depiction of Jesus – was banned by the Vatican.

    Thai convent weaves 'beautiful' robes for Pope Francis visit

    12 Nov 2019

    Sewing machines whir in a Bangkok convent as workers feverishly finish silk robes in brilliant golds and reds, made especially for Pope Francis and his entourage visiting Thailand this month.

    Far from home? Spiderman drops in at the papal audience

    23 Jun 2021

    A man dressed in a full, skin-tight, red, black and blue costume of the comic book character - including head cover - was sitting in a VIP section of the audience in Vatican's San Damaso Courtyard.

    VIDEO: You caught me: Pope Francis congratulates reporter who saw him at record shop

    14 Jan 2022

    The visit on Tuesday night was to have remained secret but Javier Martinez-Brocal of the Rome Reports television news agency was in the area in central Rome by chance. He filmed it with his smart phone, posted it on Twitter, and it went viral.

    Throwing plastic into the sea is criminal. It kills biodiversity, it kills the earth: Pope Francis

    07 Feb 2022

    Pope Francis, who has made defending the environment a cornerstone of his pontificate, recounted how Italian fishermen came to him one year and told him they had found many tonnes of plastic in the Adriatic Sea.

    Pope says he is considering trip to Kyiv

    02 Apr 2022

    Asked by a reporter on the plane taking him from Rome to Malta if he was considering an invitation made by Ukrainian political and religious authorities, Francis answered: "Yes, it is on the table". He gave no further details.

    Pope Francis to visit crisis-hit Lebanon in June

    06 Apr 2022

    Lebanon, home to one of the largest Christian communities in the Middle East, has been gripped by an unprecedented economic downturn since 2019, with more than 80 percent of the population now living in poverty.

    Christian workers enjoy Muslim employers’ care in Dubai, says Ethiopian priest

    09 Nov 2022

    An Ethiopian priest recalls that his first surprising experience after joining a Dubai church, a decade ago, was receiving phone calls from Muslim families employing Ethiopian female domestic workers.

    His near-death experience helps him relate to Covid victims, says Pope Francis in new book

    24 Nov 2020

    In the book, a conversation with one of his biographers, Briton Austen Ivereigh, Francis talks in some of the most personal terms to date about the time he was hovering between life and death.

    Pope hosts lunch for Rome's poor and homeless

    13 Nov 2022

    Francis, who has been using a wheelchair and cane because of a knee ailment, sat with them in the Vatican's large audience hall, where they were served by volunteer waiters and waitresses.

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