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In this image from video made available by Javier Martinez Brocal of Rome Reports, Pope Francis leaves a record shop in Rome, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of tango and milonga and thinks Mozart "lifts you to God." But it still came as a something of a shock to see him coming out of a downtown Rome record shop Tuesday evening with a CD in hand, after making an unannounced visit that was caught on camera by a Vatican reporter who happened to be nearby. (Javier Martinez Brocal/Rome Reports via AP)

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Bad luck: Pope acknowledges he got caught at record store
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Fri,01/14/22-8:20AM , 371 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has long lamented that he can't walk around town unnoticed like he used to before becoming pope. But he seems to have nevertheless kept his sense of humor after he was caught on camera making an unannounced visit to a Rome record shop this week.
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Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Pope on COVID vaccines says health care a 'moral obligation'
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Mon,01/10/22-4:34AM , 248 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Monday that getting vaccinated against the coronavirus was a “moral obligation" and denounced how people had been swayed by “baseless information” to refuse one of the most effective measures to save lives during the pandemic.
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Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Vatican novelty to start New Year as pope urges adoption
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Wed,01/05/22-4:00AM , 519 Reads
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis called Wednesday for simplified adoption procedures and urged couples to have more children as he presided over his first general audience of the New Year with a novel supporting cast that emphasized his call for a less-clericalized Catholic Church.
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In this Dec. 29, 2021, photo provided by the Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, singers perform in Antonio Vivaldi's "Il Farnace" in Ferrara, Italy. The Catholic Church and the city of Ferrara are making their peace with Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city's archbishop canceled the staging of one of his operas, sending the famed Baroque composer into debt for his final years in exile. The decision was hailed by the theater's artistic director Marcello Corvino as a "marvelous gesture" that helps heal the past and highlight one of Vivaldi's lesser-known works. (Marco Caselli Nirmal/Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Ferrara via AP)

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Vivaldi opera gets premiere in Ferrara nearly 300 years late
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Thu,12/30/21-10:21AM , 305 Reads
ROME (AP) — The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara made their peace Thursday with Antonio Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city’s archbishop effectively canceled the staging of one of his operas, sending the famed Baroque composer into debt for his final years in exile.
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