Pope
Journalists on the daily question ethical and moral standards when covering a story. As reporters, their job is to cover and report the news, bias aside. Gawker has questioned the news judgment of entertainment and lifestyle giant BuzzFeed after the news site sent an obvious pope fanatic to cover the Pope's D.C. visit.
Pope Francis raised eyebrows around the world when he accepted a communist crucifix, though it should not come as a surprise given the symbol's well-intended meaning.
The pope began a eight-day tour across South America by stressing the importance of protecting the Amazon rainforest from deforestation and oil-drilling.
This Monday marked the start of the two-week sex conference called by Pope Francis in Vatican City. A so-called Synod by the Catholic Church is attended by almost 200 cardinals, bishops and priests.
Less than 24-hours after he was greeted by over a hundred thousand people at Vatican City and the tens of millions watching on television sets around the world, the new head of the Catholic church Pope Francis I quietly left the Vatican to pray privately at one of Rome's renowned basilicas.
The conclave is over, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina is now Pope Francis I.
The conclave to elect a new Pope as head of the Catholic Church is underway at Vatican City. Over 1.2 billion of the faithful are now awaiting to hear the decision of the 115 cardinals who will cast their ballots during deliberations at the Sistine Chapel.
The first day of the conclave to elect the next pope of the Catholic Church is set to begin Tuesday, and the secretive selection process has led church officials to take some extreme measures to keep intruders out of the closed door sessions at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
In a break from tradition, a Scottish cardinal said the marriage ban imposed on Catholic priests should be reviewed by the next Pope.
Dressed in purple papal regalia, Pope Benedict XVI held his last major liturgy earlier today at the Vatican in observance of Ash Wednesday.
