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Jozef Wesolowski

Polish diplomat raises extradition for Vatican official accused of sex abuse

VATICAN CITY - Poland’s ambassador to the Holy See has forcefully condemned the alleged sexual abuse of children by a Polish-born former archbishop and Vatican diplomat, and said Warsaw is considering a fresh request to extradite Jozef Wesolowski to face trial in his homeland.

Retired Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass with former doctoral students

Retired Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass with former doctoral students

VATICAN CITY - With "spiritual freshness and joy" despite his physical frailty, retired Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass and met briefly with his former doctoral students at the Vatican Aug. 24.

Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, is pictured celebrating Mass in Santo Domingo in 2009. The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found the archbishop guilty of sexual abus e of minors and has ordered that he be laicized.

Vatican says laicized nuncio could stand trial in Dominican Republic

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican denied covering up for a former papal ambassador accused of sexually abusing boys and suggested he might have to stand trial on the charges in the Dominican Republic.

Pope Francis is pictured during his weekly Angelus prayer Aug. 24 from the window of his office in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The pope prayed for peace and marked Ukrainian Independence Day.

Pope Francis marks Ukrainian Independence Day, prays for peace

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis lamented "tension and conflict" in Ukraine and prayed for "peace and tranquility" there on the country's Independence Day.

Pope Francis appeals to Iraqi president to end crisis

Pope Francis appeals to Iraqi president to end crisis

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis wrote to the president of Iraq, calling for an end to the “brutal suffering of Christians and other religious minorities” and urging political leaders to end the humanitarian crisis in the country.

Sex workers and their children take part in an Aug. 14 demonstration seeking better rights and a halt to girl trafficking in the red-light area of Kolkata, India. Human trafficking destroys the lives of millions of children, women and men each year, ma king it a real threat to peace, the Vatican said as it announced Pope Francis' 2015 World Peace Day message would focus on the phenomenon.

Pope Francis' 2015 World Peace Day message to focus on human trafficking

VATICAN CITY - Human trafficking destroys the lives of millions of children, women and men each year, making it a real threat to peace, the Vatican said as it announced Pope Francis' 2015 World Peace Day message would focus on the phenomenon.

The caskets containing the bodies of the wife and children of Emanuel Bergoglio, a nephew of Pope Francis, are loaded on a plane Aug. 19 in Cordoba, Argentina, to be flown to Buenos Aires. The pope asked people to join him in prayer after he learned that two of his little great-nephews and their mother had died in a car crash in Argentina and his nephew was in critical condition.

Pope Francis thanks people for prayers after deadly crash kills relatives

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis, in mourning for the deaths of his nephew's wife and two small children, thanked people at his weekly general audience Aug. 20 for their prayers.

Pope Francis answers questions from journalists aboard the papal flight from Seoul, South Korea, to Rome Aug. 18.

Pope Francis hints he might one day retire

VATICAN CITY - Addressing journalists on his return from his intense five-day visit to South Korea late Monday (Aug. 18), Pope Francis bantered with reporters and lightheartedly said he may only have “two or three” years left to live.

Pope Francis ends South Korea trip with overture to China

Pope Francis ends South Korea trip with overture to China

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis ended his first official visit to Asia on Monday (Aug. 18) with a fresh overture to China and a call for reconciliation between South Korea and its communist neighbor, North Korea.

A woman prays with others in the rain outside Myongdong Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, as Pope Francis celebrates a Mass for peace and for the reconciliation of North and South Korea inside Aug. 18. Many Catholic and non-Catholics braved the pouring ra in to try to get a glimpse of the pontiff at his last Mass before leaving South Korea.

Hundreds brave rain to try to get final glimpse of Pope Francis in South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Hundreds of Catholic faithful and non-Catholic admirers of Pope Francis braved the pouring rain to try to get a glimpse of him outside his final Mass before he left South Korea.

Pope Francis embraces a former sex slave, or comfort woman, as he celebrates a Mass for peace and for the reconciliation of North and South Korea at Myongdong Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 18.

Charity, forgiveness keys to Korean reunification, says Pope Francis

SEOUL, South Korea - Pope Francis told Korean Catholics that the reunification of their divided peninsula as well as the harmony of South Korean society depend on the practice of Gospel virtues, especially charity and forgiveness.

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