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Faith

Participants look at a screen showing a world map with climate anomalies during the World Climate Change Conference at Le Bourge, France, in this Dec. 8, 2015, file photo.

Safeguarding creation is religious obligation, Vatican officials say

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VATICAN CITY – Christians and Muslims, believers in one God, have an obligation to safeguard the world God created, said the Vatican's annual message to Muslims for the end of Ramadan.

A portrait of Martin Luther at "Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradition" conference held at the Catholic University of America in Washington May 30-June 1. Rev. Theodor Dieter, director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Germany, says Luther used two used two medieval traditions to form his position on justification.

Martin Luther used medieval traditions to form his stance on justification

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WASHINGTON – Martin Luther used two medieval traditions to form his position on justification – a stance that nearly 500 years later ultimately found acceptance among Catholics, according to a German Lutheran theologian and pastor.

Participants pray at the start of a seminar on safeguarding children at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome March 23. An upcoming international congress in Rome in October will focus on the problem of online sexual abuse of minors and how to better safeguard children on the internet.

Upcoming Rome conference to tackle safeguarding children online

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ROME, Italy – An international congress in Rome this autumn will bring together experts to focus on the problem of online sexual abuse of minors and how to better safeguard children on the internet.

Vatican spokesperson Greg Burke confirmed May 30 that Pope Francis will not be travelling to South Sudan in 2017. The Pope had previously indicated his hope to travel to the war-torn country to promote peace, after making a similar effort during his 2015 visit to the Central African Republic.

Vatican: Pope won't be visiting South Sudan in 2017

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VATICAN CITY – Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed that while Pope Francis had voiced his desire to travel to South Sudan for an ecumenical visit alongside Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby, it won’t be happening this year.

Pope Francis and Bishop Anders Arborelius of Stockholm ride in a golf cart as the pope greets the crowd before celebrating Mass in Malmo, Sweden, in this Nov. 1, 2016, file photo. Bishop Arborelius is among five new cardinals who will be created by the pope at a June 28 consistory.

Geography and geometry: New cardinals fit Pope's formula for faith

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, who described himself as coming from "the ends of the earth," continues to go to the far reaches of the globe to seek those who will advise him and possibly elect the next Pope.

A long exposure at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope in southeastern Arizona in 2014.

Vatican stargazers look for divine inspiration

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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – In a forgotten corner of the pope's sprawling summer estate at Castel Gandolfo in the hills outside Rome, an unusual group of astronomers and cosmologists looks to the heavens for divine inspiration.

Bishop Angelo De Donatis is seen during his ordination Mass as an auxiliary bishop of Rome in 2015. Pope Francis appointed him his vicar of Rome May 26, which automatically makes him an archbishop.

Pope names Rome auxiliary bishop to be his vicar for the city

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VATICAN CITY – As his vicar for the Diocese of Rome, Pope Francis appointed Archbishop Angelo De Donatis, an auxiliary bishop and well-known spiritual director, who led Pope Francis' first Lenten retreat as pope.

Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, seen here in 2016, spoke at a a panel on human-made crises as drivers of migration May 22.

Vatican's U.N. official: Migration should be a choice, not 'something forced'

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UNITED NATIONS – Migration should be "a choice rather than something forced or involuntary," said Philippine Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations.

Pope Francis greets U.S. President Donald Trump during a private audience at the Vatican May 24.

Trump promises to heed words of Pope Francis

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump spent 30 minutes speaking privately in the library of the Apostolic Palace May 24, and as the president left, he told the Pope, "I won't forget what you said."

Pope Francis greets Swedish Bishop Anders Arborelius of Stockholm in 2016 at the Vatican. Cardinal-designate Arborelius is one of five new cardinals the pope will create at a June 28 consistory.

Pope announces new cardinals from Mali, Spain, Sweden, Laos, Salvador

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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced he will create five new cardinals June 28; the new cardinals-designate come from Mali, Spain, Sweden, Laos and El Salvador.

The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this 2011 file photo.

Prudence, pastoral concern guides Medjugorje commission, member says

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VATICAN CITY – If the Catholic Church recognizes as "worthy of belief" only the initial alleged apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje, it would be the first time the church distinguished between phases of a single event, but it also would acknowledge that human beings and a host of complicating factors are involved, said a theological expert in Mariology.

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