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Pope Francis leads an audience with members of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations at the Vatican June 22.

Doctors are called to be ‘servants’ of life

VATICAN CITY -- Catholic doctors have a mission to show God’s compassionate love to those who are suffering and to defend life at all stages, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis speaks during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 26, 2019.

U.S. bishops join Pope Francis reacting to photos of drowned migrant father, child

WASHINGTON -- U.S. bishops joined Pope Francis in expressing sadness after seeing photos of the lifeless bodies of a migrant father and his daughter who drowned near the U.S. border with Mexico.

Participants attend a meeting sponsored by the Vatican's Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life in Rome June 13, 2019. The dicastery brought together representatives of lay movements and associations to review child protection policies.)

Abuse battle expands to lay movements

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican has expanded its fight against sex abuse in the Church by giving all lay movements and associations a December deadline to submit formal guidelines and protocols for reporting and preventing cases of abuse.

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, France, during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 11, 2018.

Administrator named for Lyon as cardinal appeals conviction

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has named a retired bishop to serve as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Lyon, France, three months after refusing to accept the resignation of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin.

Pope Francis meets with participants attending the International Youth Forum during an audience at the Vatican June 22, 2019.

Pope Francis announces themes for upcoming WYD celebrations

VATICAN CITY -- Announcing the themes for the next three World Youth Day celebrations, Pope Francis called on young men and women to meditate on the path of Christian life that God has called them to walk.

Pope Francis poses for a photo with Australian bishops during their "ad limina" visits to the Vatican June 24, 2019. The bishops traveled to Rome to report on the status of their dioceses.

Australians bishops begin 'ad limina' visits acknowledging impact of crisis

VATICAN CITY -- The president of the Australian bishops' conference told his fellow bishops that it is "a time of humiliation" for Catholic Church leaders, but he is convinced that God is still at work.

St. John Paul II swings a St. Louis Blues’ hockey stick given to him by young people during his visit to the Kiel Center in St. Louis for a rally on Jan. 26, 1999.

Was there a little help from a friend?

ST. LOUIS -- Before the St. Louis Blues beat the Boston Bruins in Game 7 on June 12 to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in the team’s 52-year history, Twitter was alive with hopes for a little divine intervention for such a victory — maybe even from St. John Paul II.

Pope Francis attends a conference on theology and the Mediterranean in Naples, Italy, June 21, 2019.

Patriarch criticizes European governments on immigration

NAPLES, Italy -- The Mediterranean Sea, which has been and again could be a route for a meeting of peoples and cultures, instead is a "border not to be crossed" between the poor South and the wealthy North, said Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.

Msgr. John Kennedy, head of the disciplinary action section at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gives a talk at the Catholic Media Conference in St. Petersburg, Fla., June 19, 2019. Msgr. Kennedy related his experiences handling clerical sexual abuse cases, and their effect on the church as well as him personally.

Vatican official praises Catholic media for coverage of sex abuse crisis

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- In a remarkably frank and detailed speech, the Vatican official heading the department charged with reviewing clergy sexual abuse allegations told an assembly of Catholic journalists that his investigators and the press "share the same goal, which is the protection of minors, and we have the same wish to leave the world a little better than how we found it."

Brenda Noriega, Hispanic ministry coordinator in the Diocese of Fresno, Calif., is pictured in an April, 2015, photo. The U.S. bishops chose Noriega as one of their delegates to take part in a post-synod Youth Forum at the Vatican June 19-22, 2019, with more than 280 young people from 109 countries.

Young adult leaders gather for post-synod discussion

VATICAN CITY -- Catholic young adults felt the hierarchy started listening to them in preparation for the 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people, and they will do whatever they can to make sure their voices continue to be heard, said a youth minister from New Zealand.

A priest holds a Bible as he leads pilgrims in prayer along during an annual river procession and pilgrimage on the Caraparu River in Santa Izabel do Para, Brazil, in this 2012 file photo.

Use of term 'viri probati' questioned by Synod bishop

VATICAN CITY -- While the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the Amazon aims to highlight the damage wrought by climate change and exploitation, the possibility of ordaining married men to minister in remote areas of the rainforest continues to garner more attention.

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