Priests have been given authority to forgive women who had abortion in the past. The clearance came from Pope Francis, and this edict is in effect throughout the duration of the Catholic Church's Holy Year of Mercy, from Dec. 8 this year to Nov. 20, 2016.
Pope Francis does not support the children's book that promotes homosexual couples, the Vatican clarified on Friday after the media interpreted as papal endorsement a letter to the author of the controversial book sent by one of the Pope's staff members.
A new study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute which was released just this August revealed that majority of American Catholics are okay with same-sex marriage and even believe that Pope Francis has supported this as well.
Earlier this week, Catholic LGBT advocates received some disappointing, if not unexpected, news. They were told that a number of meetings scheduled to be held at St John the Evangelist Church in Philadelphia would not be allowed to take place.
Diplomatic tensions escalated after Argentina's ambassador to the UK claimed support from many different sectors of British society for talks to begin over the future of the Falkland Islands.