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Couple challenging Vatican bank’s ban on workplace marriages invoke pope's pro-family message
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. And he has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity. So it has come as something of a surprise to many in the Holy See that the...
New Vatican document offers AI guidelines from warfare to health care
VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican document released Tuesday offers wide-ranging ethical guidelines for the application of artificial intelligence in sectors from warfare to health care, with an underlying call that the burgeoning technology must be used as a tool to complement, and not replace, human...
Pope Francis warns of 'scourge of antisemitism' ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned of the “scourge of antisemitism” in his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. “The horror of the...
Vatican says sanctions still in effect against Opus Dei cardinal following sex abuse allegations
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Sunday that disciplinary sanctions are still in effect against the first-ever cardinal from Opus Dei following accusations of sexual abuse, confirming a series of restrictions against the once-powerful archbishop of Lima, Peru that included requiring him to...
Opus Dei cardinal acknowledges Vatican sanctioned him after abuse allegation but denies wrongdoing
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The once-powerful archbishop of Lima, Peru and the first-ever cardinal of Opus Dei acknowledged Saturday that the Vatican had imposed sanctions on him in 2019 following an allegation of sexual abuse, but he strongly denied any wrongdoing. Cardinal Juan Luis...
