Pope Francis overcame concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass,leading some 30,000 people in a flower-decked St Peter’s Square.
His last-minute decision to stay home this year recalled the Good Friday that St John Paul II famously watched from the Apostolic Palace just before he died in 2005.
Paolo Benanti is the go-to person on artificial intelligence and he has the ear of Pope Francis and of some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers and executives.
Francis’ remarks are likely to antagonise pro-LGBT+ groups,since surrogacy is often used by gay or lesbian partners who want to have children.
Roman Catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples as long as they are not part of regular Church rituals or liturgies,the Vatican said.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu,the most senior Catholic Church official to stand trial before a Vatican criminal court,has been convicted of embezzlement and fraud.
The pope,who turns 87 on Sunday,has decided to be buried outside the Vatican.
The Italian government intervened after England’s High Court ruled last month it was in the critically ill baby’s “best interests” to be taken off life support.
The Holy See has long argued that it couldn’t verify diplomatic reports of the Holocaust to denounce it during World War II.
Pope Francis told Russian Catholics “Don’t forget[your] heredity. You are heirs of the great Russia...the great Russian empire,” as Vladimir Putin wages a war for Ukraine’s territory.
Russia’s bloody invasion of its neighbour Ukraine is widely seen as an attempt by Moscow to resurrect its empire.