Tag: Catholicism

Pope Francis smiles as he waves to faithful at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope presides at scorching audience after illness

Washington Examiner · June 11, 2014 11:50 am

Catholic leader seeks Irish probe into mass graves

Shawn Pogatchnik · June 8, 2014 7:41 pm

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives for a meeting at Rome's Olympic stadium, Sunday, June 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope to packed stadium: families are under attack

Washington Examiner · June 2, 2014 5:34 am

Chicago’s Cardinal George to give deposition

Chicago’s Cardinal George to give deposition

Washington Examiner · May 28, 2014 11:12 pm

Catholic Church ousts Mexico priest for sex abuse

Catholic Church ousts Mexico priest for sex abuse

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 8:29 pm

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis kisses the hand of a Jewish men at the Hall of Remembrance on May 26, 2014, during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II, in Jerusalem Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

Pope to meet sex abuse victims at Vatican

Nicole Winfield · May 27, 2014 3:45 am

Pope Francis, center, attends a mass at the site known as the Cenacle, or Upper Room, where Christians believe Jesus had his last supper, in Jerusalem on Monday, May 26, 2014. Francis honored Jews killed in the Holocaust and other attacks and kissed the hands of Holocaust survivors as he capped his three-day Mideast trip with poignant stops Monday at some of the holiest and most haunting sites for Jews. (AP Photo/Jack Guez, Pool)

Pope ends delicate Mideast trip with peace call

NICOLE WINFIELDARON HELLER · May 26, 2014 11:40 pm

Pope Francis embraces two good friends of his traveling with him, Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, center, and Omar Abboud, leader of Argentina's Muslim community, partially seen next to the Pope, after praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, Israel, Monday, May 26, 2014. At left with back to camera is Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinovitch. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)

A glance at Pope Francis’ Holy Land pilgrimage

Ariel David · May 26, 2014 10:01 am

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Pope Francis hug each other as Francis arrives at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, May 25, 2014. Francis landed Sunday in the West Bank town of Bethlehem in a symbolic nod to Palestinian aspirations for their own state as he began a busy second day of his Mideast pilgrimage. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Pope gives Palestinians boost of support

JOSEF FEDERMANMOHAMMED DARAGHMEH · May 25, 2014 9:01 pm

File - In this Friday, May 18, 2012 file photo, an Armenian Orthodox priest holds liturgy at the tomb of Jesus in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians could not have chosen a more fitting meeting place to promote Christian unity on Sunday than the Jerusalem holy site where their churches' centuries-old rivalries and machinations play out every day. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where the pope will meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in the central event of his Holy Land trip, marks the spot where Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Pope, patriarch pray in Holy Sepulcher church

Nicole Winfield · May 25, 2014 8:28 pm

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis visits Bethany beyond the Jordan river, the site of Christ's baptism, west of Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 24, 2014. The pontiff is in Jordan on the first of a three day trip to the Middle East that will also take him to the West Bank and Israel. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Pope blasts arms dealers at start of Mideast trip

Nicole Winfield · May 24, 2014 10:55 pm

5 things to watch for during pope’s Mideast trip

NICOLE WINFIELDJOSEF FEDERMAN · May 24, 2014 1:58 pm