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c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) As Pope Francis prepares to address the new Vatican panel charged with tackling the clergy sexual abuse...

c. 2014 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) A judge has ruled the Archdiocese of Newark did not violate state law when it began marketing headstones and...

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Despite progress in defeating extreme global poverty, most Americans see no end in sight, according to a survey sponsored...

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Another week, another communications controversy for Pope Francis? That’s how it was looking after a three-word tweet...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis and his council of eight cardinals are unlikely to complete a radical shakeup of the Holy...

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) A campaign ad including House Speaker John Boehner in a parody Cialis commercial has cost his Republican primary opponent a...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Popes John Paul II and John XXIII, who presided over enormous changes within the church and across the world...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis reiterated his strong opposition to abortion on Friday (April 25), saying it “compounds the...

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Pope Francis likes to say that he prefers to raise questions rather than issue edicts or change doctrine, and he has...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Paul VI is in line to be the next pope proclaimed a saint once the Vatican endorses a...