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Reuters Big in Iceland: Paganism
An Ásatrú temple is opening in Reykjavik for the first time in a millennium.
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP Is the Catholic Church Ready to Make Changes on Homosexuality?
As bishops meet in Rome, two gay priests have been fired. And Church doctrine on gay marriage is unlikely to budge.
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YouTube Before Kim Davis, the Pope Hung Out With a Gay Couple
Let the wonders of papal politics never cease.
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Vincenzo Pinto / Reuters The Vatican's Internal Fight Over Kim Davis and the Pope
Did Francis understand what he was doing when he met the Rowan County clerk? Let the debate begin.
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Al Sayyid Abd al Ghaffar / Library of … Mecca Then and Now, 128 Years of Growth
A series of photographs on Mecca and its surrounding area taken sometime around 1887 by the photographer Al Sayyid Abd al Ghaffar, compared with images from similar locations taken in 2015.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters Pope Visit Postscript: The Excluded Inmates
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Tony Gentile / Reuters / Zak Bickel / … How Should America Deal With the Sinners in Its Prisons?
Pope Francis’s visit to the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia represents a different way of thinking about the humans behind bars.
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Mark Makela / Reuters Catching Up With the Pope: So Long, Francis
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Emma Green / The Atlantic A Pope in an American Prison
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Tony Gentile / AP Catching Up With the Pope: His Last Day in America
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Jim Bourg / Reuters The Pope Throws Down for Religious Freedom
On Saturday, standing before Independence Hall, Francis sounded similar to the most passionate religious-liberty defenders on the American right.
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Catching Up With the Pope: Francis-as-Bieber
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The Pope Lays His Hand Upon American Politics, and Grown Men Cry
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Hillary Clinton Ties Herself to Francis on Climate Change
The presidential nominee is just the latest Democratic candidate to associate herself with the pope’s message.
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Justin Sullivan / AP / Zak Bickel / … Pope Francis Assembles a Squad to Fight Religious Extremism
The pontiff joined with leaders from around the world to commemorate 9/11—and made a striking show of the Church’s pluralism.
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Tony Gentile / Reuters / Zak Bickel / … The Pope Pleads to the UN: The Planet Is Ours to Save
Looking ahead to a climate conference in Paris this winter, Francis called for better stewardship of creation.
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AP Reviewing Safety at the Hajj
The Saudi king has ordered officials to “raise the level of organization” after a stampede killed more than 700 Muslim pilgrims.
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The Atlantic What Does It Mean to Lament the Poor Inside Panem?
Pope Francis praised Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton before a Congress stacked with millionaires.
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(Carlos Barria / Reuters) Catching Up With the Pope: Bye D.C., Hello NYC
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Alessandra Tarantino / AP And Now Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Political Gridlock
If Pope Francis’s speech to Congress was a transcendent moment of comity, it was certainly a fleeting one.
