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Anirban Mukherjee and his wife, Sampa, pose May 2 with their 17-month-old son Anirban at Shishu Bhavan, the Missionaries of Charity children's home in Kolkata, India. The parents adopted Anirban from the home in April 2015 and call him "the gift from the saint of Kolkata, Mother Teresa."

Indian couples frustrated as Missionaries of Charity stop adoptions

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CALCUTTA, India – Seventeen-month-old Anirban Mukherjee playfully touches his mother's face with his fingers at Shishu Bhavan, the Missionaries of Charity children's home.

Afghan farmers extract opium to be processed into heroin in Helmand province, Afghanistan, April 7. A Catholic bishop in southern Mexican has called for compassion toward the impoverished populations harvesting opium poppies out of necessity, saying such people are not sinners and are neglected by the government.

Mexican bishop calls for compassion for people growing opium

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MEXICO CITY – A Catholic bishop in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero has called for compassion toward the impoverished populations harvesting opium poppies out of necessity, saying such people are not sinners and are neglected by the government.

Italian laywoman Francesca Chaouqui, a member of the former Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Organization of the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See, arrives for the third hearing of the"VatiLeaks" case at the Vatican Dec. 7. Her request to have three Vatican officials testify was denied.

Cardinals, papal almoner will not testify at Vatican trial

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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican court denied a request by a defendant in the so-called "VatiLeaks" trial to have three Vatican officials to testify.

In French interview, Pope talks about religious freedom, abuse crisis

In French interview, Pope talks about religious freedom, abuse crisis

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VATICAN CITY – Governments work best when they are secular, not confessional, but they must give ample space for people to express their religious beliefs, including by respecting the right of conscientious objection, Pope Francis told the French Catholic newspaper La Croix.

Headquarter of American global pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer in New York City, N.Y.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer hailed for ban on supplying drugs for executions

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WASHINGTON – The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, in a position statement issued earlier this spring, said some of its drugs are not meant to be used for executions and that it would restrict those drugs' availability to government agencies that might use them to make compounds for lethal injections.

A photo of St. Benedict's School in Ealing, U.K. Rev. Laurence Soper is facing allegations of sexual abuse dating back to the 1970s and 1980s when he taught at the school.

U.K. Catholic priest who fled sex abuse allegations arrested in Kosovo

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A British Catholic priest has been arrested in Kosovo, five years after fleeing the U.K. following allegations of child sex abuse.

Bishop Richard J. Malone of Bufallow, N.Y. in 2015. He and Archbishop George J. Lucas says the Obama administration's May 13th directive on transgender bathroom access is 'deeply disturbing'

Obama directive on transgender access to bathrooms 'deeply disturbing'

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WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's May 13 directive on transgender access to bathrooms "that treats 'a student's gender identity as the student's sex' is deeply disturbing," said the chairmen of two U.S. Catholic bishops' committees.

Former House Speaker John Boehner, University of Notre Dame president Rev. John Jenkins and Vice President Joe Biden enter the school's commencement ceremony on May 15, 2016, where the politicians were awarded the Laetare Medal.

Biden receives high Catholic honour despite pro-abortion stance

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Vice President Joseph Biden stood at the University of Notre Dame’s commencement ceremony on Sunday (May 15) with a medal signifying American Catholicism’s highest honor slung on a blue velvet rope around his neck.

Pope Francis embraces Catholicos Karekin II of Etchmiadzin, patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, during an April 12 Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Pope’s visit to Armenian genocide memorial may strain tensions with Turkey

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will visit the Armenian Genocide memorial complex during a three-day visit to the country in June, a move that may strain the Vatican’s diplomatic relations with Turkey.

An Orthodox Jewish woman walks with her children on the roof in the Arab section of the Old City of Jerusalem on her way from an Israeli settlement March 26. The Jewish settlement is near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Church of the Redeemer in the Christian Quarter of the Old City.

Increasing Jewish settlements cause unease in Jerusalem's Old City

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JERUSALEM – On a tidy residential street of the Christian Quarter of the Old City, boys still play with marbles along the cobblestones, and neighbours call out to one another from balconies abloom with red carnations.

Bishop David L Ricken of Green Bay, Wis., is pictured with Deacon David Parker Sr., left, his wife, Denise, and their son David Jr., following the father and son's ordination as deacons May 7 at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Pulaski, Wis. The younger Parker, a member of the Legionaries of Christ, was ordained a transitional deacon and and will be ordained to the priesthood in December.

Bishop ordains father, son as deacons in a first for Green Bay Diocese

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PULASKI, Wis. – When David Parker informed his eldest child, Legionary Brother David Parker Jr., that he was pursuing the diaconate again, the son had a question for his father: "How many years do you have in formation?"

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