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In a new apostolic exhortation, "Gaudete et Exsultate", Pope Francis mentions Satan or the Devil twelve times. Warning against Catholic media transgressing the eighth commandment, he calls to "see how the unguarded tongue, set on fire by hell, sets all things ablaze."
2018-04-9

Catholics in Portugal converge in a shrine in Fatima for a visit by Pope Francis.
2017-05-12

The Vatican releases a 10,000-word document that, among other things, says Jews don't need to be converted to find salvation, and that Catholics should work with Jews to fight antisemitism.
2015-12-10

The Roman Catholic Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is damaged by a suspected arson attack.
2015-06-18

The Vatican summons all papal envoys in the nations of the Middle East to a special meeting in Rome this week, to discuss the crisis facing the Church in that region.
2013-10-1

Pope Francis canonizes a record-breaking 800+ new Catholic Church saints - Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI had submitted the 813 "Martyrs of Otranto" who had been beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam.
2013-05-12

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is elected as the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis. He is the first pope of the Catholic Church from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope.
2013-03-13

Cuba is to free two more dissidents, according to the Catholic Church on the island.
2011-02-4

The Catholic Church admits that during a meeting in April Godfried Danneels, the retired Catholic leader in Belgium, advised a person who had experienced abuse to remain silent until his abuser Roger Vangheluwe, the Bishop of Bruges, retired.
2010-08-29

An openly gay cleric is blocked from becoming a Church of England bishop amid fears his consecration might split the Church.
2010-07-7