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Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his papacy Thursday with increasingly positive medical updates four weeks into his hospitalization for double pneumonia. The pope spent ...

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who quit in 2013. Before his hospitalisation, Francis had repeatedly said it was not yet the time -- and might never be. He maintains a packed schedule, particularly with the Church celebrating a ...

He had spent 10 weeks in the war zone. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI officially stepped down as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, citing a "lack of strength of mind and body." He was the first ...

A knife was also stabbed into the wooden door leading to the church bell tower. Graffiti was scrawled on the walls, cash was taken and several items of religious literature were also damaged.

KNOX COUNTY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — A man in Knox County, Indiana, has been arrested after he allegedly sold a 345-pound bell that had been stolen from a local church, according to the Knox County ...