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VATICAN CITY - For Pope Francis, the reform of the Catholic Church and its structures "isn't a project, but an exercise of the Spirit" that will take time, said Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga.

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe is more polarized now than it was before this year's general elections, said the country's bishops.

CAIRO - The Vatican will restart its stalled dialogue with Sunni Islam's main theological centre, Al-Azhar University, said Fr. Rafic Greiche, spokesman for Egypt's Catholic Church.

Touring Tacloban in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, Ryan Worms was aware of horror and grace.

Money can’t buy you love, or justice, or reconciliation. But sometimes money is the necessary first step.

Just days before Pope Francis laid out his dream for a missionary Church in all parts of the world, Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ president Archbishop Paul-André Durocher put forward his own hopes for the new evangelization in Canada.

KIEV, Ukraine - The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and other Catholic leaders condemned police violence against "peaceful demonstrations" after President Viktor Yanukovich's decision not to seek closer ties with the European Union.

GLASGOW, Scotland - Glasgow Archbishop Philip Tartaglia was winding down for the evening when a police helicopter plunged through the roof of a popular pub near his cathedral, killing at least nine people.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel Dec. 2, and discussed prospects for peace in the Middle East and the pope's still-unscheduled trip to the Holy Land.

OTTAWA - The West’s crisis of faith has “morphed” into a crisis of hope that requires anchoring people in the great Christian story, said Montreal Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Dowd.