[ad_1] VATICAN CITY — When Pope Francis travels to Mongolia this week, he will in some ways be completing a mission begun by the 13th-century Pope Innocent IV, who dispatched emissaries east to ascertain the intentions of the rapidly expanding Mongol Empire and beseech its leaders to halt the bloodshed and convert. Those medieval exchanges between Roman pope and Mongolian khan were full of bellicose demands for submission and conversion, with each side claiming to…
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[ad_1] VATICAN CITY (AP) — So much for a short pontificate. Pope Francis celebrates the 10th anniversary of his election Monday, far outpacing the “two or three” years he once envisioned for his papacy and showing no signs of slowing down. On the contrary, with an agenda full of problems and plans and no longer encumbered by the shadow of Pope Benedict XVI, Francis, 86, has backed off from talking about retiring and recently described…
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[ad_1] Thousands are expected to pay their last respects to the former pope, whose body will lie in state for three days. Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to pay their last respects in the Vatican to former Pope Benedict XVI, whose body is lying in state for three days starting Monday at St Peter’s Basilica before his funeral. The German theologian, who died on Saturday aged 95, led the Catholic Church for eight…
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