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Latin Mass fans celebrate 10-year anniversary, without pope

FansoftheoldLatinMassdescendedonRomeonThursdayfortheirannualpilgrimagefacingindifferencetotheircause,ifnotoutrightresistance,fromnoneotherthanPopeFrancis.Tenyea

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Pope and Vietnam’s president meet at the Vatican in bid to warm long-strained ties

​Pope Francis has hosted Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang at the Vatican as the two work towards warming long-strained ties, a press release from the Holy See said.

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Philippines president-elect Duterte plans to visit pope to apologise for insult

Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte is planning to visit the Vatican to make a personal apology to the pope for calling him a "son of a whore", the politician's spokesman said on Thursday (May 12).

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Argentinia's Bergoglio elected Pope Francis I

Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 77, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, was elected the new pope on Wednesday on the second day of secrete ballots in the cardinals' conclave held in Vatican City.