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Pope Francis has often spoken up about the alarming impact of climate change and urges countries that can "make the most difference" to help create awareness and take action.

Britain has stressed its full support to Kyiv to fight the Russian invasion after the Pope’s intervention

Though absent from the COP28 summit in Dubai due to ongoing concerns for his health, Pope Francis sent a message for the inauguration of the first Faith Pavilion at a United Nations climate event, stressing the responsibility of religious leaders in caring for the planet.

Hundreds of Catholic institutions around the globe have announced plans to divest their finances of oil, gas and coal to help fight climate change since Pope Francis published his landmark encyclical on environmental stewardship in 2015 urging a break with fossil fuels.

The Pontifex has long used his platform to advocate for climate change awareness. Now he's attending one of the biggest conferences seeking to address it.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point, says the pope, but our response has been inadequate.

In an unprecedented event, Pope Francis and just about the entire Catholic population of a country were in the same room when he presided at a Mass in Mongolia's capital on Sunday. 

Pope Francis on Wednesday called on Catholic priests to keep their homilies short -- "no longer than eight minutes" -- so that their audiences would not "fall asleep". The homily or sermon is the address in which a priest comments on a reading from the Bible.

Pope Francis made a foray into the US election season with a rare television interview Sunday, calling harsh anti-migrant attitudes "madness" and criticizing right-wing U.S. Catholic figures for overly conservative stances against his social teachings.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop for negligence in handling cases of sexual abuse committed by some clergy against minors, his representatives in the country said.

All forms of clerical abuse begin with a priest thinking he is better than others, Pope Francis told about 1,000 priests and bishops on Feb. 8.

The future of humanity depends on what people choose now, Pope Francis said in his message to global leaders at the World Climate Action Summit of the U.N. Climate Change Conference.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was essential for all world religions to unite in opposing the "rapacious" devastation of the environment.

I praise Pope Francis’s moral conviction, and I also admire his political leadership.

Pope Francis has ordered a review of the Church's handling of the case of an internationally known religious artist who was expelled from the Jesuit religious order after being accused of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse of adult women. A statement on Friday said the pope had asked the Vatican's doctrinal office to review the case of Father Marko Ivan Rupnik and had lifted any statute of limitations, meaning he could eventually face a Church trial and be removed from the priesthood if found guilty. 

Pope Francis on Wednesday met with victims of clerical sexual abuse, as he began a five-day visit to Portugal for a major Catholic youth festival. The 86-year-old pontiff had earlier said that the "anguished cry" of sexual abuse victims must be heard...