ROME Pope Francis urged governments on Saturday to get migrants and refugees out of holding centers, saying many had become “concentration camps”. During a visit to a Rome basilica, where he met migrants, Francis told of his visit to a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos last year. There he met a Muslim refugee […]
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Pope Francis: ‘Catholic Church will probably never have female priests’
Pope Francis said Tuesday that the Catholic Church will probably continue banning women from serving as priests forever, according to journalists who were traveling on a plane with him. But scholars who study the role of women in the church said Francis’s off-the-cuff statement did not close the door on the possibility of women serving […]