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Cardinal Wuerl Receives Traditional Ring From Pope
VATICAN CITY (KDKA) – The newly-installed Cardinal Donald Wuerl received his traditional gold ring today following Saturday’s ceremony to elevate him to his new rank. Pope Benedict XVI presented the...
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Local Clergymen Discuss Pope’s Resignation, Selecting New Leader
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) — KDKA Radio’s Rob Pratte is joined by local clergymen to discuss Pope Benedict’s historic resignation and the process of electing a new pope. Bishop David Zubik, the...
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Pope Benedict XVI Offers Final Blessings At Emotional Sendoff
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pope Benedict XVI offered his final blessing today. He thanked the crowd for their friendship and affection, telling them that he is starting the last part of his pilgrimage on this...
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Cardinals Fail To Select Pope In First Vote
VATICAN CITY (CBS/KDKA) — The 115 Cardinals who will elect the next pope started their secret voting conclave Tuesday. Black smoke came pouring from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel around 7:40 p.m....
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Black Smoke Again, New Pope Not Yet Elected
VATICAN CITY (KDKA/AP) – Black smoke again billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, meaning that Catholic cardinals hadn’t elected a pope on their second or third rounds of...
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Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio Elected As New Pope
VATICAN CITY (KDKA/AP) – Argentine Jorge Bergoglio has been elected pope, the first ever from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Pope Francis....
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Local Catholics Celebrate As Pope Francis Is Officially Installed
GREENSBURG (KDKA) — Pope Francis celebrated his installation Mass this morning at the Vatican. Before that, he rode around Saint Peter’s Square greeting people who planned to watch the Mass on big...
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Pittsburgher Designed Chapel Where Pope Francis Holds Daily Masses
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It may seem like things are back to normal at the Vatican following the election of a new pope of the Catholic Church, but inside the walls heading into the Easter holiday, it is...
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Polish Hill Church Marking Historic Canonization By Enshrining Relic
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Pittsburgh’s Polish Hill section will mark Sunday’s canonization of two popular 20th century popes with a special ceremony involving a relic of...
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Effort To Make Roberto Clemente A Saint Gets Papal Show Of Support
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A movement to have Pittsburgh Pirates’ legend Roberto Clemente canonized as a saint has gotten a show of support from The Vatican. The effort is being led by Pittsburgh native...
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Former Members Of St. Anthony’s Church Continue To Fight For Reopening
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — When the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese closed a local church, its former members took their fight to keep it open all the way to the top, and even after a ruling from the Vatican,...
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Vatican Issues Revised Guidelines, Instructions Regarding Cremation
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Catholic Church prefers burial over cremation, which is one of the reasons “Instruction Ad resurgendum cum Christo” was published by the Vatican’s “Congregation for the Doctrine...
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Vatican Responds To Grand Jury Report, Calls Abuse ‘Criminal And Morally...
Follow KDKA-TV: Facebook | Twitter By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN) — The Vatican responded on Thursday to a Pennsylvania grand jury report that detailed decades of sexual abuses by priests...
View ArticleNew Bishop Appointed For West Virginia Diocese Hit By Scandal
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) – Pope Francis named Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Mark Brennan to lead the Wheeling-Charleston diocese in West Virginia on Tuesday following a scandal over the former bishop’s sexual...
View ArticleDiocese: Independent Review Board Finds Allegations Against 4 Priests To Be...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — An Independent Review Board has determined that sexual abuse allegations against four priests are credible, the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh says. According to a news release, the...
View ArticlePope Francis’ Sunday Prayer To Be Livestreamed Due To Coronavirus Fears
VATICAN CITY (KDKA) — Local religious traditions were upended last week due to efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, and now international measures are being taken as well. Pope Francis...
View ArticlePope Francis Reverses Benedict Decision, Reimposes Restrictions On Latin Mass
ROME/PITTSBURGH (AP/KDKA) — Pope Francis cracked down Friday on the spread of the old Latin Mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI’s signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist...
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