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(updated 11/8/2014 11:42:50 AM EST)

• Pope removes Cardinal Burke from Vatican post
  
  
• When puppets meet refugees, healing begins for children
  
  
• Pope urges religious to wage war on 'terrorism of gossip'
  
  
• Christian Iraqi family waits to find safe passage to the West
  
  
• To heart of Europe: Pope expected to talk dignity, jobs, family life
  
  
• Church protests beating deaths of Christian couple accused of blasphemy
  
  
• Pope says annulment process should be cheaper and more efficient
  
  
• Pope: Bishops must be servants, not vain careerists after power, honor
  
  
• Winter's early arrival challenges Iraqi Christians who fled militants
  
  
• Medical, spiritual worlds combine for Mercy sister who is pediatrician
  
  
• Companies criticized for offering to pay to freeze female workers' eggs
  
  
• Cardinal says mergers tough to take, but address shifts in population
  
  
• Pope Francis to open Vatican conference on traditional marriage
  
  
• Vatican official: Syria's war is part of regional humanitarian crisis
  
  
• Did Pope Francis get what he wanted from the synod?
  
  
• For 40 years, pastoral letters focus on sustaining Appalachian culture
  
  
• Poverty was among synod's major concerns, Philippine cardinal says
  
  
• Be ready with God's weaponry; devil is real, pope says
  
  
• Official says Catholic cemeteries have 'huge opportunity to evangelize'
  
  
• Pope urges prayer, international action to fight Ebola virus
  
  
• Pope urges activists to struggle against 'structural causes' of poverty