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Pope Francis, left, is greeted by the head of Armenia's Orthodox Church Karekin II, during an Armenian-Rite Mass on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2015. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey however denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope recalls slaughter of Armenians in ‘first genocide of the 20th century’

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican , Sunday, April 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis rejects France’s gay ambassador to the Vatican: report

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Pope Francis Pope blesses children as he presides over Chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Thursday, April 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis brings down hammer, says ‘Don’t mess with children’

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican , Sunday, April 5, 2015. In an Easter peace wish, Pope Francis on Sunday praised the framework nuclear agreement with Iran as an opportunity to make the world safer, while expressing deep worry about bloodshed in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. Cautious hope ran through Francis' "Urbi et Orbi" Easter message, a kind of papal commentary on the state of the world's affairs, which he delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Pope’s Easter message: In this violent world, what we need is Christ’s resurrection

By Ann Schneible - Catholic News Agency

In this April 2, 2015 pool photo Pope Francis, center, greets faithful after delivering a Holy Thursday homily in the Rebibbia prison chapel in Rome. Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 inmates and a baby at Rome's main prison Thursday in a pre-Easter ritual meant to show his willingness to serve. He asked them to pray that he, too, might be cleansed of his "filth." (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Combat weariness with service and love, Pope Francis urges priests

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

In his address to synod participants, Pope Francis said the church has one year "to mature, with true spiritual discernment, the proposed ideas and to find concrete solutions to so many difficulties and innumerable challenges that families must confront." (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

In open letter, 500 British priests ask Synod to stand firm on Church teaching

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