Topic - Pope Francis

17 December 1936) is Pope of the Catholic Church, a title he holds ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. - Source: Wikipedia

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Pope prays as he presides over a mass for the jubilee of the armed forces in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Sunday Feb.9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis reminds armed forces only to act for defense and always respect international laws

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Pope Francis greets Cardinal Anders Arborelius during a meeting with a group of pilgrims from the Scandinavian Episcopal Conference, in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope lists tragedies of children in war and trafficking at a rights summit

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Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis warns of ‘scourge of antisemitism’ ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Leslie Voltaire, the president of Haiti's Transition Council, talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Rome, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Haitian leader says the Trump administration’s plans will be ‘catastrophic’ for his country.

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Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis calls Trump’s plans of mass deportation of immigrants ‘a disgrace’

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FILE - Vatican investigators Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, right, from Spain, and Archbishop Charles Scicluna, from Malta, walk outside of the Nunciatura Apostolica during a break from meeting with people alleged abused by the Catholic lay group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, in Lima, Peru, on July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Pope dissolves Peru-based conservative Catholic movement after abuses uncovered by Vatican

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Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis sends blessings to Trump as he assumes the U.S. presidency

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Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope welcomes Cuba’s prisoner release following talks with Vatican as part of long-standing dialogue

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Pope Francis arrives in the Paul VI hall on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope falls and hurts his arm, the second time in a month that he falls

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Pope Francis meets with pilgrims and faithful participating into the 2025 jubilee in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis baptizes 21 babies in annual ceremony at the Sistine Chapel

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Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope asks aide to deliver his annual foreign policy address, tells ambassadors he’s battling a cold

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Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

In his first 2025 catechism lesson, Pope says anyone who exploits or abuses a child answers to God

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Pope Francis holds the cross as he presides over an Epiphany mass in St.Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope wraps up busy Christmas season by calling for culture of welcome in Christian communities

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Newly named cardinal Robert Walter McElroy, speaks, during a press conference at the Vatican, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) **FILE**

Pope Francis appoints Cardinal Robert McElroy as archbishop of Washington

By Emma Ayers - The Washington Times

Pope Francis is anti-Israel and anti-Western civilization illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Pope Francis is anti-Israel because he’s anti-Western civilization

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