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Pope Francis arrives at the Holy Trinity Humanistic School in Baro, near Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. Pope Francis celebrated the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea, bringing with him a ton of medicine and toys and a message of love overcoming violence for the people who live there.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope arrives in the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea with a ton of humanitarian aid and toys

September 8, 2024 at 11:10 a.m.

Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church on the peripheries.

Pope Francis, center, flanked by his spokeperson Maeo Bruni, right, talks to journalists, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, aboard the flight bound to Jakarta, Indonesia, where Francis will start his 12-day pastoral visit to Asia. Francis will clock 32,814 kilometers (20,390 miles) by air during his Sept. 2-13 visit to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore, far surpassing any of his previous 44 foreign trips and notching one of the longest papal trips ever, both in terms of days on the road and distances traveled. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, pool)

Pope Francis has packed first day in Indonesia with visits to president, clergy in test of stamina, health

September 3, 2024 at 7:28 p.m.

Pope Francis is opening his visit to Indonesia with a packed first day Wednesday, meeting political and religious leaders and setting a rigorous pace for an 11-day, four-nation trip through...

FILE– Pope Francis waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope embarks on longest, farthest and most challenging trip to Asia, with China in the background

September 1, 2024 at 9:08 a.m.

Pope Francis will clock 20,390 miles by air during his Sept. 2-13 visit to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore, far surpassing any of his previous 44 foreign...

Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters, return to Porticello on a small boat, on Aug. 20, 2024, near Palermo a day after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Divers find 4 bodies during search of superyacht wreckage after it sank off Sicily, 2 still missing

August 21, 2024 at 12:05 p.m.

Divers searching the wreck of a superyacht that sank off Sicily found the bodies of four passengers Wednesday and searched for two more.

FILE - Undated file photo of Pope Pius XII. The recently-opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn't speak out about the Holocaust. But they're also providing details about another contentious chapter in Vatican history: the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. (AP Photo, File)

Vatican’s Pius XII archives shed light on another contentious chapter: The Legion of Christ scandal

July 21, 2024 at 11:43 a.m.

The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust.

FILE – Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Pope Francis apologized Tuesday, May 28, 2024, after he was quoted using a vulgar term about gays to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a statement acknowledging the media storm that erupted about Francis’ comments, which were delivered behind closed doors to Italian bishops on May 20. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope apologizes after being quoted using vulgar term about gay men in talk about ban on gay priests

May 28, 2024 at 4:25 p.m.

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests.

Some 600 stolen works of art that where gave back by the United States of America to the Italian Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage are displayed during their presentation to journalists in Rome, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

US vows more returns of looted antiquities as Italy celebrates latest haul of 600 artifacts

May 28, 2024 at 4:22 p.m.

Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S., including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at 60 million euros ($65 million).

The prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, presents the declaration ‘Dignitas Infinita’ (Infinite Dignity) during a press conference at the Vatican, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican blasts gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and gender theory as violations of human dignity

April 8, 2024 at 12:56 p.m.

From a pope who has made outreach to the LGBTQ+ community a hallmark of his papacy, the document was a setback for trans Catholics.

Pope Francis asperses holy water as he celebrates Easter mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope overcomes health concerns to preside over a blustery Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square

March 31, 2024 at 2:31 p.m.

Rallying from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems, Pope Francis led some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday and made a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a...

No stranger to plagues, Venice opens film fest with caution

September 1, 2021 at 1:53 p.m.

VENICE (AP) — Visitors to Venice could be forgiven for not realizing that beyond the majesty of St. Mark's Square and the romance of gondola rides lies a city that...

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