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October 24, 2020

Pope Francis, in Shift for Church, Voices Support for Same-Sex Civil Unions

The comments, shown in a new documentary, are the strongest yet from a pontificate that has taken a more tolerant and inclusive tone. By Jason Horowitz Oct. 21, 2020 Updated 6:05 p.m. ET ROME — Pope Francis expressed support for same-sex civil unions in remarks revealed in a documentary film that premiered on Wednesday, a significant break from…

October 9, 2020

Pope Francis’s new encyclical is a papal warning about a world going backward

By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli Oct. 4, 2020 at 12:58 p.m. EDT ROME — Humankind, Pope Francis says, is in the midst of a worrying regression. People are intensely polarized. Their debates, absent real listening, seem to have devolved into a “permanent state of disagreement and confrontation.” In some countries, leaders are using a “strategy of ridicule” and…