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The 266th sovereign of The Vatican City State, Jorge Mario Bergogli, better known now as Pope Francis, seems to share more with his predecessors than just a peculiar Popemobile.
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The Vatican elects a new Pope, 76-year-old Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Florida residents brace for an onslaught of larger nastier mosquitoes. A report says the economic crisis threatens life expectancy in Europe. These are the top stories on Digital Journal.
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White smoke rose from a Sistine Chapel chimney and bells rang Wednesday, signaling the selection of a new pope following one of the shortest conclaves in history. The Vatican just announced Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the new Pope.
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FEMEN have been up to their tricks again, with 2 topless activists protesting at Saint Peter's Square in Rome on Tuesday and 8 at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, crying "Pope no more!" and protesting for gay marriage, as the cardinals' conclave continues.
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Speculation in the media has been rife that Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana would emerge from the papal conclave as the new pope.
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One of the major issues confronting the Catholic church is the involvement of religious leaders or priests in various forms of sexual abuse being committed on church members and other workers in the institutions under the Catholic church hierarchy.
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Vote Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson at the conclave!, said the posters in bold above a photograph of the cardinal, a favourite among bookmakers to succeed Benedict, who on Thursday became the first pope in six centuries to resign.
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Pope Benedict XVI announced his retirement from the papacy in February 2013. The Pope’s sudden retirement reminds many biblical eschatologists of St. Malachi’s famous prophecies for the 112 Catholic popes.
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In his final public gesture as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict says goodbye to tens of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square.
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The recently embattled Archbishop of Edinburgh, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, has announced he is resigning his position effective immediately.
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