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Hiroshima survivor shares memories of atomic blast with peace activists
Maimed and fleeing people, charred paper falling from a strangely colored sky, and a father who didn't return were some of the very early but vivid memories Hiroshima survivor Toshiyuki Mimaki recalled Aug. 6.
Brazilian priest accused of abuse commits suicide in prison
Local authorities said Father Bonifacio Buzzi hanged himself with bed sheets in his cell a day after being arrested.
Mother Teresa: ‘Do small things with great love’
On Sept. 4, Pope Francis, who has spent this year preaching about mercy, will canonize Mother Teresa, who traveled the world to deliver a single message: that love and caring are the most important things in the world.
Pope praises witness of 10 athletes on Refugee Olympic Team
Naming each of the team's athletes from South Sudan, Syria, Congo and Ethiopia, Pope Francis said he had read some of the interviews with team members "so that I could get closer to your lives and your aspirations."
Innocent people pay the price for war in Syria, pope says at Angelus
An estimated 300,000 residents were trapped in war-torn Aleppo at the beginning of August while hundreds of thousands have fled since the start of the civil war.
Forgive others and find peace, pope says during brief visit to Assisi
People who fail to forgive their brother or sister "ruin their own lives and the lives of those around them," Pope Francis said during his visit to the small chapel restored in 1207 by St. Francis, who preached mercy.
Take another look at ‘Amoris Laetitia,’ Canadian cardinal urges
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, whose writings were once strongly identified with resistance to lifting the ban on Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics, has endorsed Pope Francis' document on marriage and family life.
New Vatican panel will study ministry of women as deacons
Pope Francis has appointed six men and six women to study the issue of women deacons. At least one member, U.S. scholar Phyllis Zagano, has argued women in the early church were ordained ministers and that women can be ordained deacons today.
Teach your elders well: Pope calls youths to be models for adults
At World Youth Day July 30, Pope Francis asked young people to show adults how to "live with diversity, in dialogue, to experience multiculturalism not as a threat but an opportunity." Christians should watch their tongues and their texting fingers, he said.
Pope Francis urges World Youth Day volunteers to be ‘hope of the future’
Departing from World Youth Day in Poland, the pope thanked more than 15,000 organizers and urged young people "to be courageous, not fearful." The next WYD event will be in Panama in 2019.