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• Pope Francis has done little to improve women’s lives

  27 Aug 2014: Tina Beattie: Women do not seem to have a place in the pope’s vision of a Catholic church that cares for the world’s poor people

• Christianity needs bishops who speak up for the poor and against oppression

  26 Aug 2014: Letters: Liberation theology cannot be picked up from South America and planted in the UK. But its method of doing theology can be

• The Guardian view on Pope Francis’s seeming leftward lurch

  24 Aug 2014: Editorial: The pope is no Marxist, nor is he reviving ‘liberation theology’. But he is determined to take a critical view of capitalism

• For Pope Francis to talk about mortality and retirement is entirely in character

  20 Aug 2014: Andrew Brown: As the pope contemplates his future, the big question is how much of the excellent work he has done will survive him

• Pope Francis tells of anguish as relatives die in Argentina car crash

  19 Aug 2014: Two great-nephews and their mother killed on Córdoba-Rosario highway, while nephew Emanuel Bergogolio in critical condition

• Pope Francis says he expects to live two or three more years, and may retire

  19 Aug 2014:

  77-year-old says he may 'soon be off to the Father's house' and would retire if he could no longer perform his duties

• Pope Francis hints at US trip, says he would go to China 'tomorrow' if invited

  18 Aug 2014: Francis says he needs to slow down for health reasons and made a number of declarations on world affairs, including Isis

• Pope Francis promotes dialogue with China as church's top priority in Asia

  17 Aug 2014: On his visit to South Korea, the pope insists the church isn’t coming into Asia as a ‘conqueror’

• Huge Seoul crowds turn out to greet Pope Francis for open-air mass

  16 Aug 2014: Pope beatifies 124 martyrs and challenges Koreans to consider what sacrifices they would be willing to make

• Pope Francis makes big impression with small car in South Korea

  14 Aug 2014: South Koreans fascinated by pictures of pontiff, who requested the smallest South Korean car for his five-day visit, in a Kia Soul

• North Korea test-fires missiles as pope visits South

  14 Aug 2014: Francis calls for renewed efforts to forge peace in speech in Seoul on first trip to Asia

• Pope Francis: Isis violence against minorities in Iraq must be stopped

  10 Aug 2014:

  Vatican says world must halt attacks against Christians and others, as Francis sends emissary to Iraq

• North Korea rejects offer to attend mass given by Pope Francis in Seoul

  6 Aug 2014: North’s Korean Catholics Association said visit would be ‘agonising’ and cites Seoul’s refusal to cancel a joint military drill with US forces for its decision

• I don't want Pope Francis's 'tips' for a happy life – I want terrifying commandments dictated by God

  5 Aug 2014: Stuart Heritage: Shouldn't a textbook pope be a gimlet-eyed dictator, convinced of his own superiority? If so, this one's a bit rubbish

• Pope reinstates revolutionary priest from Nicaragua's Sandinistas

  5 Aug 2014: Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann was banned from ministries in 1985 as part of crackdown on 'Marxist thought' in Catholic church

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