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• Pope Francis Muslim Ban Comments Followed By Excerpt Of Divine Law

  Pope Francis' Muslim ban comments speaks about unity and his recent sermon further explains the significance of the divine law.

• Decades of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests exposed

  Hundreds of children were found to be sexually abused by Roman catholic priests over four decades as reported by the state grand jury. The report also revealed that bishops themselves were the one who covered up these incidents.

• Jesuits reached settlement of 2 lawsuits against former St. Louis University President Daniel O' Connell

  Two women who sued a former St. Louis University president over abuse allegations. Jesuits have settled their cases for a total of $281,000, an activist group said Wednesday.

• U.S. justices to hear religious objection to Obamacare contraception coverage

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear appeals brought by Christian groups demanding full exemption from the requirement to provide insurance covering contraception under President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

• Leaked letter adds intrigue, confusion to Vatican bishops meeting

  A gathering of world Roman Catholic bishops was thrown into confusion on Monday with the leak of a letter from conservative cardinals to Pope Francis bitterly complaining that the meeting was stacked against them.

• California governor signs bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide

  Physician-assisted suicide will become legal in California under a bill signed into law on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, despite intense opposition from some religious and disability rights groups.

• Pope of the people, and the politics, in historic U.S. visit

  Pope Francis dove into some of the United States' thorniest political debates during his historic visit by urging the world's wealthiest nation to welcome immigrants, to end homelessness and do more to address climate change.

• Pope to allow all priests to forgive abortion during Holy Year

  Pope Francis will give all priests discretion during the Roman Catholic Church's upcoming Holy Year to formally forgive women who have had abortions, in the Argentine pontiff's latest move towards a more open and inclusive church.

• Minnesota Catholic Archdiocese charged over sexual abuse by clergyman

  Prosecutors in Minnesota brought criminal charges on Friday against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, accusing it of failing to protect children from a priest who pleaded guilty in 2012 to sexual abuse.

• Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack

  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a U.S. jury on Friday for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others in the crowds at the race's finish line.

• Jury to take up Boston bomber's fate after lawyers' final statements

  Federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Boston Marathon bomber are set to make their final arguments on Wednesday on whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of release for the 2013 attack.

• Relief in Boston as Tsarnaev convicted on all counts

  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's conviction on Wednesday came as a relief to residents of the city, though many expressed mixed feelings over whether the 21-year-old should be put to death for his crimes.

• Jury begins deliberations in Boston bombing

  A jury began deliberating on Tuesday in the trial of Dzokhar Tsarnaev, who is accused of carrying out the 2013 bombing attack on the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured 264 others.

• The devil is punishing Mexico with violence: Pope Francis

  The devil is punishing Mexico with criminal violence, Pope Francis said, just a few weeks after the Mexican government complained that the Pontiff had stigmatized the country as a breeding ground for gangland chaos.

• Supreme Court sends Notre Dame contraception mandate challenge to lower court

  The Supreme Court on Monday threw out an appeals court decision that went against the University of Notre Dame over its religious objections to the Obamacare health law’s contraception requirement.

• Police officers' slaying raises pressure on New York mayor

  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio faced the biggest crisis of his political career on Sunday after a gunman killed two police officers in an attack intended to avenge recent police killings of unarmed black men in the United States.

• Vatican official condemns Maynard assisted suicide case in U.S.

  A Vatican bioethics official on Tuesday condemned the death by assisted suicide of American Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill 29-year-old who ended her life over the weekend, as an undignified "absurdity".

• Philippines steps up army patrols on island where Germans held

  The Philippines on Thursday stepped up army patrols in the jungles of the southern island of Jolo where al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants are holding two Germans captive and are threatening to kill one of them.

• Pope Francis ditches Latin as official language of Vatican synod

  In a break with the past, Pope Francis has decided that Latin will not be the official language of a worldwide gathering of bishops at the Vatican.