1. Pope Francis told reporters on his flight that the Catholic Church", shouldn't be scandalized by this", adding that "there are steps in a process", and "we are working on it.
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1. Pope Francis told reporters on his flight that the Catholic Church", shouldn't be scandalized by this", adding that "there are steps in a process", and "we are working on it.
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3. Pope Francis told reporters on his flight that the Catholic Church", shouldn't be scandalized by this", adding that "there are steps in a process", and "we are working on it.
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4. Pope Francis waved at an enthusiastic crowd carrying Vatican flags and banners as he drove into Zayed Sports City Stadium, where an altar with a large cross was set up for the unprecedented open-air service in a country where worship is normally allowed only inside churches.
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5. Pope Francis held a historic public mass for an estimated 170,000 Catholics at an Abu Dhabi stadium on Tuesday on the first ever papal visit to the Muslim Gulf.
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9. Pope Francis kicked off his historic visit to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, arriving at Abu Dhabi's lavish presidential palace in his trademark understated Kia Soul hatchback.
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11. Pope Francis is opening his historic visit to the United Arab Emirates by meeting with the federation's leader and a group of Muslim elders.
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12. Pope Francis has arrived at the presidential palace to officially start his historic visit to the United Arab Emirates as canons boomed and a military aircraft flew over trailing the yellow and white smoke of the Holy See flag.
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13. Pope Francis has assured the people of the United Arab Emirates of his prayers and "the divine blessings of peace and fraternal solidarity.
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15. Pope Francis has met with a group of Muslim elders at the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi in what the Vatican says was a "particularly cordial and fraternal" encounter.
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17. Pope Francis concluded his landmark speech to an interfaith gathering on Monday by saying: "God is with those who seek peace.
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19. Pope Francis continued his historic visit to the United Arab Emirates by meeting with Abu Dhabi's crown prince at the presidential palace on Monday.
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21. Pope Francis arrived in the capital Abu Dhabi to take part in a conference on inter-religious dialogue.
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22. Pope Francis will speak at a giant mass in Abu Dhabi's main sports area on Tuesday, which is expected to be attended by around 135,000 people.
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25. Pope Francis has landed in Abu Dhabi on the first papal trip ever to the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam.
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27. Pope Francis was speaking before embarking on a historic three-day visit to the United Arab Emirates, the first by a pope to the Arabian peninsula.
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29. Pope Francis will celebrate an open-air mass in Abu Dhabi's Zayed Sports City on Tuesday.
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31. Pope Francis was invited by Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan to take part in an interfaith conference.
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34. Pope Francis starts a three-day visit to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, the first for a leader of the Roman Catholic Church in the Arabian Peninsula.
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35. Pope Francis is travelling to Abu Dhabi to participate in a conference on interreligious dialogue sponsored by the Emirates-based Muslim Council of Elders, an initiative that seeks to counter religious fanaticism by promoting a moderate brand of Islam.
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38. Pope Francis was scheduled to speak publicly twice during the visit at the interreligious event Monday and at the mass on Tuesday.
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39. Pope Francis travels to the United Arab Emirates, where he will be the first pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula, known as the cradle of Islam.
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41. The Pope Francis is heading to the United Arab Emirates, the first papal visit to the Arabian peninsula.
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51. Pope Francis is perhaps one of the most well-known figures in the world, and as the leader of the Catholic Church, he is the epitome of goodness and holiness.
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52. Pope Francis tackled other political blockades too, bringing together Presidents Raul Castro, of Cuba, and President Barack Obama, of the United States, in a historic meeting that precipitated significant foreign policy changes.
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57. Pope Francis urged peace during his time in the religiously diverse city, known as the "Jerusalem of Europe".
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61. The Pope Francis visited the 950 year old Lund Cathedral, located in Sweden's southernmost and originally Danish province of Scania.
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63. The Pope Francis gave thanks for the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church and the steps they have taken "for the sake of coming to share fully in the Eucharistic banquet.
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64. The Pope Francis said, "we are able even now to make visible the communion uniting us.
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65. The Pope Francis reflected on the shared ecumenical journey of the two churches since their 18th-century schism over the issue of papal primacy.
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66. Pope Francis said, "Sad news has reached us of the persecution of our Rohingya brothers and sisters, a religious minority.
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68. The Pope Francis loves you like this and you should love yourself and not worry about what people say.
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74. In May 2013, Pope Francis unexpectedly participated in Italy's pro-life march in Rome, asking its participants to protect human life "from the moment of conception".
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79. Pope Francis established the World Day of the Poor in his Apostolic Letter, Misericordia et Misera, issued on 20 November 2016 to celebrate the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy.
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86. Pope Francis continued to assert Catholic doctrine, in less dramatic tone than his recent predecessors, who maintained that the Catholic Church is not a democracy of popular opinion.
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87. On 31 March 2013, Pope Francis used his first Easter homily to make a plea for peace throughout the world, specifically mentioning the Middle East, Africa, and North and South Korea.
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89. Pope Francis explained that, as it was becoming clear during the conclave voting that he would be elected the new bishop of Rome, the Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes had embraced him and whispered, "Don't forget the poor", which had made Bergoglio think of the saint.
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91. Pope Francis is the first pope since Pope Pius X to live outside the papal apartments.
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92. Pope Francis was known to be devoted to St Therese of Lisieux, and he enclosed a small picture of her in the letters he wrote, calling her "a great missionary saint".
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96. Pope Francis was a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Congregation for the Clergy, the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the Pontifical Council for the Family and the Commission for Latin America.
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100. Pope Francis was removed as rector by the Jesuit superior-general Peter Hans Kolvenbach because Bergoglio's policy of educating the young Jesuits in direct pastoral work and in popular religiosity was opposed to the worldwide trend in the Society of Jesus of emphasizing social justice based on sociological analysis, especially promoted by the Centro de Investigaciones y Accion Social.
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101. Pope Francis made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1973, shortly after being named provincial superior, but his stay was shortened by the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War.
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