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Pope Francis receiving a headdress elicits heated emotions amongst First Nations communities

headdress by Chief Wilton Littlechild was a powerful and symbolic moment — but the symbolism is not sitting well with everyone.The Pope was given the headdress on Treaty 6 territory, in the central Alberta First Nations community of Maskwacis, after he apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system on Monday.The apology came with cheering from the crowd, and some people were weeping. Soon after, Chief Littlechild went on stage and placed a headdress on Pope Francis’ head.The former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission attended residential schools for 14 years as a child in Alberta.It was a stunning image: Francis briefly wearing the full Indigenous headdress, its rows of soft white feathers fastened in place by a colorful, beaded headband.The Vatican and the pope clearly appreciated the gesture: Francis kissed Littlechild’s hands after receiving the headdress, something he has done in the past as a sign of respect for Holocaust survivors, and has done on this trip for residential school survivors.The Vatican obviously understood the symbolic significance of the moment, putting the photo on the front page of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano under the headline “I humbly beg forgiveness.”Headdresses historically are a symbol of respect, worn by Native American war chiefs and warriors.For many Plains tribes, for example, each feather placed on a headdress has significance and had to be earned through an act of compassion or bravery.Some modern-day First Nations leaders have been given war bonnets in ceremonies accompanied by prayers and songs.“It’s honouring a man as a chief, as a honourary chief and leader in the community and in doing that it’s actually adopted him as one

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'Better than before': Pope Francis leaves hospital 9 days after operation

Pope Francis waves to the faithful as he leaves the Gemelli Hospital after being discharged following surgery on June 16, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images) ROME - Pope Francis on Friday was discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring, with his surgeon saying the pontiff is now "better than before" the hospitalization.Francis, 86, left through Gemelli Polyclinic's main exit in a wheelchair, smiling and waving and saying "thanks" to a crowd of well-wishers, then stood up so he could get into the small Vatican car awaiting him.

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Pope Francis undergoes intestinal surgery under general anesthesia

Pope Francis leads the weekly general audience in Saint Peters Square, Vatican City, on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Massimo Valicchia/NurPhoto via Getty Images) ROME - Pope Francis went to the hospital Wednesday to undergo abdominal surgery to treat an intestinal blockage, two years after he had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed because of a narrowing of the large intestine.The Vatican said Francis, 86, would be put under general anesthesia for the procedure Wednesday afternoon and would be hospitalized at Rome's Gemelli hospital for several days.Francis' Fiat 500 car pulled out of the Vatican shortly after 11 a.m.

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Pope Francis gets back to work after battling fever

Pope Francis leaves St. Peter's Square after his traditional Wednesday General Audience.

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Pope Francis slams 'insinuations' against John Paul II as baseless

Pope Francis leads his general Weekly audience at St. Peters Square, on April 12, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican.

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Pope Francis Easter message: Pray for 'trust among individuals, peoples and nations'

Pope Francis delivers his Easter Urbi et Orbi blessing from the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square on April 09, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican.

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Pope Francis discharged from hospital: 'Still alive,' he jokes

Pope Francis addresses the media as he leaves the Gemelli hospital on April 1, 2023 in Rome, after being discharged following treatment for bronchitis. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images) ROME - A chipper-sounding Pope Francis was discharged Saturday from the Rome hospital where he was treated for bronchitis, quipping to journalists before being driven away that he's "still alive."Francis, 86, was hospitalized at Gemelli Polyclinic on Wednesday following his weekly public audience in St.

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‘Work to be done’: 1 year after residential schools apology, Vatican rejects Doctrine of Discovery

Warning: This story deals with disturbing subject matter that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised.

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Vatican formally renounces Discovery Doctrine after decades of Indigenous demands

The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Indigenous lands and form the basis of some property law today.

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Pope Francis hospitalized for pulmonary infection after experiencing difficulty breathing, Vatican says

Pope Francis during the General Audience in St. Peters Square.

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President expresses condolences on the demise of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI

COLOMBO (News 1st) – Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe visited the Embassy of the Holy See (Vatican Apostolic Nunciature) in Colombo on Wednesday (04) to express his condolences on the demise of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI who was called to rest on Saturday (31) morning in the Mater Ecclesia Monastery in the Vatican.Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI from Germany, was called to rest at age of 95, after having served for more than eight years as Pope from 2005 to 2013.

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American tourist denied visit with pope, smashed Roman busts in Vatican museums: report

FILE - Tourist admire the Sistine Chapel, ahead of the re-opening of the Vatican Museums, at the Vatican City, on May 03, 2021. (Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)An American tourist on Wednesday threw a tantrum and cracked two Roman busts in the Vatican Museums after officials denied him an audience with Pope Francis.The unidentified tourist, said to be in his fifties, was in the Chiaramonti Gallery when he requested to visit the pope.

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Pope Francis hails families, blasts ‘culture of waste’ after Roe v. Wade ruling

Pope Francis arrives to lead the mass for the 10th World Meeting of Families in Saint-Peter square on June 25, 2022 at the Vatican. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP) (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) ROME (AP) - Pope Francis celebrated families Saturday and urged them to shun "selfish" decisions that are indifferent to life as he closed out a big Vatican rally a day after the U.S.

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Pope Francis apologizes for residential schools at Vatican: ‘I ask for God’s forgiveness’

Pope Francis has delivered a formal apology for the grave harm caused by Canada’s harrowing residential school system.

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Pope Francis prays for pandemic's end in Christmas Day address

Vatican City, VATICAN, DECEMBER 25: Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas message from the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, December 25, 2021.

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Pope Francis celebrates Christmas Eve Mass amid COVID-19 surge in Italy

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve Mass before an estimated 2,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday, going ahead with the service despite the resurgence in COVID-19 cases that has prompted a new vaccine mandate for Vatican employees.A maskless Francis processed down the central aisle as the Sistine Chapel choir sang "Noel," kicking off the Vatican’s Christmas holiday that commemorates the birth of Jesus in a manger in Bethlehem.

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Pope Francis addresses nun abuse detailed in investigative expose

ROME - Pope Francis on Saturday drew attention to a problem that the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the abuses of power by mother superiors against nuns who, because of their vows of obedience, have little recourse but to obey.During an audience with members of the Vatican’s congregation for religious orders, Francis cited a new investigative expose of the problem written by a reporter for the Holy See’s media, Salvatore Cernuzio.Francis noted that the book, "Veil of Silence: Abuse, Violence, Frustrations in Female Religious Life," doesn’t detail "striking" cases of violence and abuse "but rather the everyday abuses that harm the strength of the vocation."RELATED: Survey: Few Americans blame God for COVID-19 pandemic, other tragediesT

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Indigenous delegation members react after Vatican visit postponed

While their visit to the Vatican has been postponed due to concerns about the Omicron variant, members of an Indigenous delegation are optimistic the trip will happen.

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Indigenous delegation delays Vatican trip due to Omicron concerns

A delegation of Canada’s Indigenous leaders is postponing an upcoming trip to the Vatican due to the Omicron variant. The group was supposed to meet with Pope Francis about residential schools.

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Biden, Pope Francis talk COVID-19, climate change, poverty at Vatican

VATICAN CITY - President Joe Biden arrived at the Vatican Friday to meet with Pope Francis, the world's two most notable Roman Catholics huddling to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty.The president takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. Biden wears a rosary and frequently attends Mass, yet his support for abortion rights and same-sex marriage has put him at odds with many U.S.

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Pope Francis to visit Canada for Indigenous reconciliation, Vatican says

Vatican says Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help ongoing efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous peoples following shocking revelations of the Catholic church’s role in the abuse and deaths of thousands of Indigenous children.In a brief statement on Wednesday, the Vatican said the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited the pope to make an apostolic journey to Canada “also in the context of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.”The Vatican said Francis has indicated his “willingness” to visit Canada at a date to be determined.

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Pope Francis returns to Vatican 10 days after surgery

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis was discharged from a Rome hospital and returned home to the Vatican on Wednesday, 10 days after undergoing planned surgery to remove half his colon.Francis sat in the passenger seat of the Ford car, which left Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic around 10:45 a.m. (0845 GMT; 4:45 a.m.

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Pope Francis eats breakfast, takes walk 2 days after intestinal surgery

ROME - Pope Francis ate breakfast Tuesday, read the newspapers and took a walk as he continued recovering from intestinal surgery, the Vatican said, declaring his post-operative checks to be "good" and normal.A statement from the Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, said Francis had slept well during the night following the Sunday surgery."His Holiness Pope Francis rested well during the night," Bruni said. "This morning he had breakfast, read some newspapers and got up to walk.

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Pope challenges Vatican's journalists: Who reads your news?

ROME – Pope Francis challenged the Vatican’s in-house journalists Monday to essentially justify their continued work, asking them how many people actually consume their news in a critique of the office that costs the Holy See more than all its embassies around the world combined.

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Cardinal Pell eyes a Vatican scandal he suspected long ago

ROME – Cardinal George Pell is enjoying his first Roman spring since being exonerated of sex abuse charges in his native Australia: He receives visitors to his Vatican flat, sips midday Aperol Spritz’s at the outdoor cafe downstairs and keeps up religiously with news of a Holy See financial scandal that he suspected years ago.

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German Catholics to bless gay unions despite Vatican ban

BERLIN – Germany's powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all over the country this week.

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Vatican conference features Fauci, Francis — and Aerosmith

ROME – An eclectic mix of participants are taking part in a unique three-day Vatican conference on COVID-19, other global health threats and how science, solidarity and spirituality can address them.

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Vatican No. 2 intervenes to shed light on Swiss Guard deaths

ROME – The Vatican secretary of state has intervened personally to shed light on one of the most sensational Vatican scandals of recent times: The 1998 murder of the Swiss Guard commander and his wife, purportedly by a disgruntled younger Swiss Guardsman who then took his own life.

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Pope aims to cut down on corruption among Vatican managers

ROME – Pope Francis issued tough new anti-corruption regulations Thursday that require Vatican cardinals and managers to periodically declare they are investing only in funds consistent with Catholic doctrine and aren't under criminal investigation or stashing money in tax havens, and

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Vatican No 2 skips trip to Venezuela, cites pandemic

ROME – The Vatican No. 2 is skipping a planned trip to Venezuela this week because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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US Bishop Hoeppner resigns after Vatican probe into cover-up

ROME – A Minnesota bishop who was investigated by the Vatican for allegedly interfering with past investigations into clergy sexual abuse has resigned, the Vatican said Tuesday.

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Pope opens final Holy Week services, skips Last Supper rite

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis opened the solemn final days of Holy Week with a morning Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica but planned to skip the traditional Thursday afternoon service that commemorates Jesus’ Last Supper with his apostles.

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Pope taps Chilean sex abuse whistleblower for Vatican panel

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Wednesday named a Chilean man who helped uncover a clerical sex abuse scandal to a Vatican commission that advises the pontiff on how to protect children from pedophile clergy.

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Ex-Vatican altar boy testifies in seminary sex abuse trial

ROME – A former Vatican altar boy has testified that an older seminarian would come into his bed at night to perform a sexual act on him in the Vatican’s youth seminary, saying his initial shock gave way to resignation because he feared being sent home.

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Belgian bishop lashes out at Vatican over gay unions decree

BRUSSELS – A Belgian bishop has lashed out at the Vatican over its decree that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”

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LGBTQ Catholics stung by Vatican rebuff of same-sex unions

The Vatican’s declaration that same-sex unions are a sin the Roman Catholic Church cannot bless was no surprise for LGBTQ Catholics in the United States — yet it stung deeply nonetheless.

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Vatican excludes gay union blessing as God 'can't bless sin'

ROME – The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”

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Vatican defends pope Iraq trip as virus hits as act of love

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is defending Pope Francis’ decision to go ahead with his trip to Iraq this weekend despite rising coronavirus infections there, saying Tuesday all health care precautions have been taken and that the trip is an “act of love for this land, for its people, and for its Christians.”

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Vatican Employees Could Be Fired for Refusing Coronavirus Vaccine

The Vatican is not taking any chances.

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Anti-vax at the Vatican? You might lose your job

ROME – The Vatican is taking Pope Francis’ pro-vaccine stance very seriously: Any Vatican employee who refuses to get a coronavirus shot without a valid medical reason risks being fired.

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Nun named to voting position at Vatican praises 'brave' pope

ROME – A French nun who has become the first woman to hold a voting position at the Vatican said Wednesday that her appointment is evidence the “patriarchal mindset is changing” as more and more women assume high-level decision-making responsibilities in the Catholic hierarchy.

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Ailing pope, reducing appearances, prays for homeless dead

VATICAN CITY – Ailing Pope Francis, who this week is making limited public appearances due to persistent pain, has drawn attention to the plight of homeless people in winter, including a Nigerian man who froze to death near the Vatican. Francis on Sunday asked for prayers for the 46-year-old man named Edwin who he said was “ignored by all, abandoned, even by us.” The pontiff said on Jan.

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Italy court weighs extradition to Vatican in fair trial case

ROME – A Milan court on Monday begins weighing whether to extradite an Italian woman to the Vatican to face embezzlement-related charges in a case that could test whether Italy considers the Vatican a state where someone can get a fair trial. Already two Italian courts have ruled against Vatican prosecutors in their wide-ranging corruption investigation, which has highlighted the incompatibility of the Vatican justice system with European norms.In the case before the Milan appeals court, lawyers for Cecilia Marogna, a self-described intelligence analyst, are expected to argue that she shouldn’t be extradited to the Vatican because there’s no extradition treaty between the two states.

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Pope Francis Received the Coronavirus Vaccine, Vatican Reveals

Pope Francis has been given the Coronavirus vaccine, the Vatican revealed.

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Pope receives coronavirus vaccine hours after personal doctor dies of Covid

ontiff's close personal doctor died of Covid-19 complications.The 84-year-old received the jab in the atrium of the Paul VI Hall, according to reports.He was one of the first in the Vatican to be inoculated with the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine, La Nacion reported.The Pope is due to receive the second dose in three weeks.He had recently revealed he would get the injection as part of a vaccination programme at the Vatican, and said “ethically everyone should receive the vaccine”.The head of the Catholic Church said people who refused take it despite it being known to be safe possessed a “suicidal denialism”.In an interview with TV station Canale 5, he said: "I believe that ethically everyone should take the vaccine."It is an ethical choice

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Probe highlights Vatican legal system's limited protections

VATICAN CITY – A criminal investigation into a Vatican real estate investment is exposing weaknesses in the city state’s judicial system and a lack of some basic protections for those accused — highlighting the incompatibility of the Holy See’s procedures with European norms.The Vatican has never been a democracy, but the incongruity of a government that is a moral authority on the global stage and yet an absolute monarchy is becoming increasingly evident. The pope is supreme judge, legislator and executive, who holds the ultimate power to hire and fire officials, judges and prosecutors and make and waive laws and regulations.

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Pope Francis likely to get Covid jab next week

Pope Francis has said that the Vatican will initiate Covid-19 vaccinations from next week and that he is in line to receive a vaccine dose.The pontiff made the comments during an interview with a channel in Italy set to air on Sunday night, reported CNN."It is an ethical duty to take the vaccine, here in the Vatican we will start next week, I am also in line to take it," he said, according to a news anchor for the channel in a preview of the interview, which was released Saturday.In December, the Vatican deemed that it was morally acceptable to be vaccinated against Covid-19 after some anti-abortion groups raised concerns about how the vaccines were manufactured, CNN reported."It is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have

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Back pain causes pope to skip Vatican New Year's ceremonies

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is skipping New Year’s ceremonies due to what the Vatican says is a painful back condition, a spokesman said Thursday. Matteo Bruni said Francis is suffering from “painful sciatica” and won’t preside at a year-end prayer service Thursday evening in St.

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