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<p>Pope Francis' latest document comes despite the fact that the Catholic Church teaches that deliberate bodily mutilation and homosexual acts are gravely sinful, and that those requesting baptism for children must intend to raise the children in the Catholic faith.</p>

Pope: Even nuns watch pornPriests and nuns watch pornography online just like everybody else, the pope told aspiring clerics of the Roman Catholic Church this week. “It is a vice that many people have, many laymen, many laywomen, and also priests and nuns. The Devil gets in that way.” Francis added that he’s not talking about child pornography, but “pornography that is a little ‘normal.’”

Pope says journalists accusing him of pro-Russian stance have a fetish for excrementROME – Pope Francis says journalists who accuse him of being pro-Russian for not condemning Vladimir Putin by name for his invasion of Ukraine are falling into “disinformation, slander, defamation, and coprophilia.”The pontiff was responding to a letter sent to him by Argentine journalist Gustavo Sylvestre, who works for the C5N television station, which is aligned with the current government of the South American country.“Coprophilia” is the technical term for a sexual fetish involving human excrement.In his letter to Sylvestre, Francis said some of the reporters accusing him...

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis cancelled official engagements for the third day in a row Saturday as he battled an apparent cold. The 83-year-old pope, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has never cancelled so many official audiences or events in his seven-year papacy. Francis is, however, continuing to work from his residence at the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel and is receiving people in private, the Vatican press office said. On Saturday, those private meetings were with the head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office, Francis’ ambassadors to Lebanon and France and...