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- Catholic priests must resist ‘fashionable’ homosexuality or leave clergy – Pope Francis
Pope Francis has bemoaned the allure of “fashionable” homosexuality, stressing that gay priests must forever remain in the closet – or leave the Catholic Church.World News - Mute boy storms stage at Pope Francis audience, steals the show by playing & annoying Swiss Guard
When Pope Francis is in the room all eyes are usually focused on him – but that wasn’t the case Wednesday when one very excited little boy stole the limelight, breaking through crowds to play and roll around at the Pope’s feet.World News - ‘The tongue kills like a knife’: Pope Francis equates gossiping with terrorism
In a strongly worded warning, Pope Francis decried gossip as a form of “terrorism” which ruins reputations, and said that fake news is a modern day scourge of the church faithful.World News - ‘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.USA 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
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