Some experts in the Catholic canon law expressed confusion about the practical effects of the Pope's announcement.
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As they prepared to hang up, Leuco said the Pope asked the journalist to pray for him.
Lombardi said the Pope believes religious freedom in Cuba means more than the ability to worship freely.
"For some months now, we have witnessed an event which fills us with hope, " the Pope said.
Because of a bad signal, the Pope's first call didn't come through, so the pontiff left a message.
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano defended the pope in an unprecedented rebuke to the Times.
Crowds lined the streets to greet the Pope as he drove to the church.
That same cash, of course, could be deployed to creating more jobs as the Pope suggests.
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The Pope has approved a report criticising the leadership of the largest group of American nuns.
The Pope has made clear his distress at seeing the shrine caught up in the conflict.
Might he be saying he was betrayed but has now forgiven the Pope for his betrayal?
Otherwise, see the pope at the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) on Good Friday.
One of the first sentences the Pope uttered in Israel was an unequivocal condemnation of anti-Semitism.
Recently the Pope launched a Twitter account to reach out to young Catholics.
Austrian Catholics gave only a lukewarm welcome to the Pope when he visited Vienna in 2007.
"'Seriously, it's Jorge Bergoglio, I'm calling you from Rome, '" the Pope had told him.
It "has no legislative power and its main function is to 'advise' the pope, " he said.
In 1209, the Pope launched the Albigensian Crusade against the heretics of southern France.
The pope's visit will be a blessing for Mexico in more ways than one.
The society has understandably reacted coolly to Francis' election, reminding the pope that his namesake, St.
This is the Pope's fifth visit to Spain since he became the Pope in 1978.
" With the leaks, he said, the pope's very ministry "has come under attack.
Jokes that the Pope is a fan because he has been photographed using a Sony tablet.
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In the U.S., too, first-generation Hispanic immigrants, in particular, are likely to identify with the pope.
The Pope stumbled when he greeted the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano.
The order was organized on military lines of soldier-priests uniquely at the Pope's orders.
On a darker note, some questioned the pope's relationship decades ago to Argentina's military dictatorship.
"Maybe we should go to the balcony first, " Dolan recalled the pope as saying.
Abuse victim Colm O' Gorman said the pope had not tackled the problem head-on.
The pope did not specifically mention Ireland in his weekly Angelus address in Rome on Sunday.
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