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Victor Manuel Fernandez, then archbishop of La Plata, smiles after a Mass at the Cathedral in La Plata, Argentina, Sunday, July 9, 2023. The Vatican’s new doctrine chief, already under fire from entire bishops conferences for his approval of blessings for same-sex couples, is raising eyebrows anew over a book he wrote as a young priest describing orgasms in graphic terms. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

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Vatican's doctrine chief is raising eyebrows over his 1998 book that graphically describes orgasms
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Tue,01/09/24-6:19AM , 221 Reads
ROME (AP) — The Vatican’s new doctrine chief, who is already under fire from entire bishops conferences for his approval of blessings for same-sex couples, is now raising eyebrows over a book he wrote as a young priest describing orgasms in graphic terms
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Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Pope Francis called Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, for a universal ban on the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual speech listing the threats to global peace and human dignity. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

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Pope Francis calls for a universal ban on surrogacy. He says it exploits mother and child
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Mon,01/08/24-4:20AM , 240 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis called Monday for a universal ban on what he called the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood, as he included the “commercialization” of pregnancy in an annual speech listing threats to global peace and human dignity.
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Pope Francis waves before delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Monday Dec. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Pope Francis denounces the weapons industry as he makes a Christmas appeal for peace in the world
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Mon,12/25/23-5:40AM , 165 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday blasted the weapons industry and its “instruments of death” that fuel wars as he made a Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particu
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Mons. Giovanni Angelo Becciu presides over an eucharistic liturgy, at the St. John in Latheran Basilica, in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. The Vatican's chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that, while finding a cardinal guilty of embezzlement, largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File )

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Vatican prosecutor appeals verdict that largely dismantled his fraud case but convicted cardinal
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Fri,12/22/23-2:10AM , 226 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros but found a cardinal guilty of embezzlement.
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