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- Pope apologizes to young people who feel ignored by the church
  
  VATICAN CITY – Speaking on behalf of all adult Catholics, Pope Francis formally closed the Synod of Bishops by asking young people for forgiveness.
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- Defend church from those who seek to destroy it, pope says
  
  VATICAN CITY – As the Synod of Bishops finished its work, Pope Francis called on all Catholics to defend the church from those who are influenced by the “great accuser” seeking to destroy it.
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- Pope: Build church unity, shun clericalism
  
  VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church needs bishops who promote unity, “not soloists singing their own tune or captains fighting personal battles,” Pope Francis told new bishops from the church’s mission territories.
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- Pope Francis: Letter to the people of God on the abuse crisis
  
  In an Aug. 20 letter addressed to the whole People of God, Pope Francis called on the church to be close to clergy abuse victims in solidarity and to join in acts of prayer and fasting in penance for such “atrocities.” The text was retrieved from www.vaticannews.va/.
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- Pope: Death penalty ‘inadmissible’
  
  VATICAN CITY – Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide.
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