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- ‘Sex is a gift of God’: Pope Francis shares benefits of ‘passionate’ love, slams pornography
Sex is not taboo, but is rather a “gift from God” which is designed to show love and to create life, Pope Francis has stated, while criticizing pornography as part of an “industry of lies.”World News - Pennsylvania AG says Vatican helped conceal abuse of over 1,000 children
The Pennsylvania attorney general has revealed that the Vatican was aware of the massive cover-up of dozens of sex crimes against children in the state's dioceses, since the bishops shared their secret archives with Rome.US News - Vatican doctors Pope's remarks on ‘psychiatric help’ for gay children, says he did not mean it
Pope Francis told a reporter that parents should seek psychiatric help if their children had homosexual tendencies. The Vatican says he did not mean it and removed those words from the official transcript, however.World News - Pope Francis ‘won’t say a word’ about sex abuse cover-up allegations
The Pope has refused to comment on claims by a former Vatican Ambassador to the US who accused the pontiff of covering up sexual misconduct, and has urged everyone to study the allegations carefully and make up their own mind.World News - Ex-Vatican ambassador says Pope Francis knew of abusive priest, calls for resignation
A former Vatican ambassador to the US says that he told Pope Francis about allegations of sexual abuse against a prominent priest in 2013 and claims the pontiff did nothing to act on the information.World News - Pope Francis promises zero tolerance for pedophile priests after Pennsylvania abuse revelations
Pope Francis has acknowledged “with shame and repentance,” decades of sexual abuse by priests, and regrets that some can not stand trial as the Catholic Church faces backlash and falling donations over 300 “predator priests.”US News
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