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Pope Francis on Wednesday praised the “spontaneity and freedom” of children after a young boy approached him during his weekly general audience and motioned that he wanted the pope’s white skullcap.

After the death last month of a former colleague from Regensburg, retired pope Benedict XVI wrote a letter to his friend's monastery offering condolences, and saying he hoped his own journey to the...

ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has said he hopes to soon join a beloved professor friend in “the afterlife,” in a sign that the 94-year-old pontiff is not only accepting his eventual death but...