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Pope Francis dismisses conservative U.S. bishop Strickland in very rare move
FILE - Bishop Joseph Strickland walks in front of a reliquary bearing the bones of Saint Maria Goretti, dubbed "The Little Saint of Great Mercy," into the sanctuary at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, in Tyler, Texas. Pope Francis on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 forcibly removed from office the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a conservative active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and some of his priorities. (Andrew D. Brosig/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP, File)
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Pope Francis’s historic synod marks potential watershed as women’s equality, climate change take centre stage
Pope Francis speaks during the First General Congregation of the Synod at the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, October 4, 2023. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Pope Francis cements legacy, stamps Church future with new cardinals
Newly elevated cardinals, archbishop from Cordoba Angel Sixto Rossi (L) and archbishop from Bogota in Colombia Luis Jose Rueda Aparicio (R) are congratulated by fellow cardinals at the end of a consistory to create 21 new cardinals at St. Peter's square in The Vatican on September 30, 2023. Pope Francis elevates 21 clergymen from all corners of the world to the rank of cardinal -- most of whom may one day cast ballots to elect his successor. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP) (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Letter shows Pope Pius XII probably knew about Holocaust early on
FILE - Undated file photo of Pope Pius XII. Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland, undercutting the Holy See’s argument that it couldn’t verify diplomatic reports of Nazi atrocities to denounce them. The documentation from the Vatican archives, published this weekend in Italian daily Corriere della Sera, is likely to further fuel the debate about Pius’ legacy and his now-stalled beatification campaign. (AP Photo, File)
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Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family killed during Second World War for hiding Jews
Papal envoy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro leads a Mass in which the Vatican beatified the Polish Ulma family, including small children, who were killed by the Nazis in 1944 for having sheltered Jews, in the Ulmas' home village of Markowa, Poland, on Sunday, Sep.10, 2023. The Vatican beatified also the Ulmas' unborn child, saying it was born during the killings and was baptized in the martyred mother's blood. (AP Photo)
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Biden to meet with Pope’s peace envoy, discuss plight of children displaced by war in Ukraine
FILE - Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, head of the CEI (Italian Conference of Bishops), welcomes parishioners after celebrating Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, Thursday, June 29, 2023. Pope Francis’ peace envoy was travelling to Washington on Monday, July 17 in hopes of promoting peace initiatives for Ukraine and supporting humanitarian operations, especially concerning children, the Vatican said. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi’s visit, which lasts through Wednesday, follows his recent mission to Moscow and an earlier stop in Kyiv, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)
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Pope Francis puts stamp on Church future with new cardinals
Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer from his window, at the Vatican, July 9, 2023. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS
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Hospitalized Pope Francis walks a bit, follows Mass on TV, lunches with medical personnel and aides
Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, June 7, 2023. During the period between the end of one pontificate and the election of a new pope the camerlengo, or chamberlain, runs the administration and finances of the Holy See, but under canon law Pope Francis was still pope, fully in charge of running the Vatican and the 1.3-billion-strong Catholic Church, even while unconscious and undergoing surgery Wednesday, June 7, 2023, to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Pope Francis has scar tissue removed, hernia repaired during 3-hour abdominal surgery
FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, July 11, 2021, Pope Francis appears on a balcony of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome. Pope Francis went to the hospital Wednesday to undergo abdominal surgery to treat an intestinal blockage, two years after he had his colon removed 33 centimeters (13 inches) because of inflammation and narrowing of the large intestine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, FILE)
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Vatican questions how priest moved $17 million meant for missionary work into investment fund
Pope Francis greets a child as he attends the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, May 31, 2023. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Vatican singles out bishops in urging reflective not reactive social media use
Pope Francis presents the Paolo VI Prize of Brescia to Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Vatican, May 29, 2023. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Pope Francis skips meeting because he is running a fever, the Vatican says
Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he attends the world's first meeting of the 'Educational Eco-Cities' promoted by the 'Scholas Occurrentes', at the Vatican, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Pope Francis tasks cardinal with mission aimed at paving ‘paths to peace’ in Ukraine, Vatican says
This handout picture taken and released by the Vatican press office, the Osservatore Romano on April 21, 2018, shows Pope Francis greeting the Archbishop of Bologna, Bishop Matteo Zuppi, as believers from the Bologna and Cesena dioceses gather on April 21, 2018 in St Peter's Square at the Vatican. / AFP PHOTO / VATICAN MEDIA / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS HO/AFP/Getty Images
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Man who rushed Vatican City gate sent for psychiatric care at nearby hospital
Reporters film the Santa Anna gate at the Vatican, late Thursday, May 18, 2023. A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through Santa Anna gate Thursday evening and sped past Swiss Guards into a palace courtyard before the driver was apprehended by police. Vatican gendarmes fired a shot at the speeding car's front tires after it rushed the gate, but the vehicle managed to continue on its way, the Vatican press office said in a statement late Thursday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Zelensky holds talks with pope at the Vatican as Italy pledges support to Ukraine
This photo taken and issued as a handout on May 13, 2023 by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis greeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky upon his arrival for a private audience in The Vatican. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Rome on May 13 for meetings with President of Italy Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis in his first visit to Italy since Russia's invasion. (Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / VATICAN MEDIA" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/VATICAN MEDIA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Pope’s willingness to return sacred items means they will come home: national chief
Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald speaks during her closing address at the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Archibald says the Pope's willingness to return Indigenous artifacts stored at the Vatican Museum suggests the items will make their way home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts
Pope Francis holds a news conference as he returns to the Vatican following his apostolic journey to Hungary, aboard the plane, April 30, 2023. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Pope says Vatican involved in Ukraine peace mission
Pope Francis holds a news conference as he returns to the Vatican following his apostolic journey to Hungary, aboard the plane, April 30, 2023. Vincenzo Pinto/Pool via REUTERS
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Pope Francis calls ‘insinuations’ against John Paul II unfounded
Pope Francis leads Regina Caeli prayer from his window at the Vatican, April 16, 2023. Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS
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Pope Francis skips Good Friday procession due to cold weather after bronchitis hospitalization
Pope Francis presides over the Passion of the Lord mass on Good Friday at St. Peter's basilica in The Vatican, on April 7, 2023 as part of celebrations of the Holy Week. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Vatican is distorting history around the doctrine of discovery
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Pope Francis leaves hospital to return to Vatican, will preside over the Palm Sunday service
Pope Francis talks with journalists as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Saturday, April 1, 2023 after receiving treatment for a bronchitis, The Vatican said. Francis was hospitalized on Wednesday after his public general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis to leave hospital on Saturday, is scheduled to attend Palm Sunday Mass, Vatican says
Pope Francis arrives for the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 29, 2023. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
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Vatican formally rejects Doctrine of Discovery that allowed colonial-era seizure of Indigenous lands
Indigenous people hold a banner that reads ""Rescind the Doctrine"" as Pope Francis presides over a mass at the Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupre, in Quebec on July 28, 2022.
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Pope Francis expands sex abuse law, reaffirms adults can be victims
Pope Francis arrives for an audience with pilgrims from Rho diocese, in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Nicaragua closes Vatican embassy in Managua, Nicaraguan embassy to Vatican
Altar servers lead the opening processional at the Immaculate Conception of Maria, La Carpio, Catholic church where the majority of the congregation is made up of Nicaraguan exiles and refugees, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023. Dozens of priests, nuns, seminarians and church workers have fled Nicaragua in recent years, or been exiled by President Daniel Ortega’s government, which considers them a threat. (AP Photo/Carlos Gonzalez)
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Pope Francis pushes for transparency with reopening of Emanuela Orlandi case
People hold a banner during a sit in, in the memory of Emanuela Orlandi, a teenager who disappeared in 1983 in one of Italy's darkest mysteries, behind St Peter's Square in the Vatican in Rome on January 14, 2023. - The Vatican announced on January 10, 2022 the opening of an investigation into the 1983 disappearance of a teenage girl living in the Vatican, a case that has never been solved and was the subject of a documentary on Netflix. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP) (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)
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French priest restricted, not defrocked, after abuse claims
A photo shows the dome of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, as seen from Rome, during the lying in state of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, on January 4, 2023. - Benedict, a conservative intellectual who in 2013 became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign, died on December 31, 2022, at the age of 95. Thousands of Catholics began paying their respects on January 2, 2023 to former pope Benedict XVI at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, at the start of three days of lying-in-state before his funeral. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Cardinal George Pell, Australian cleric whose conviction of child sex abuse was overturned, dies at 81
FILE PHOTO: Cardinal George Pell attends a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican, October 12, 2020. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY
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Vatican reopens investigation into teen’s 1983 disappearance
FILE - Pietro Orlandi, right, brother of Manuela, a 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee disappeared in 1983, is flanked by his lawyer Laura Sgro, left, as he attends a press conference on the establishing of a parliamentary investigative commission on Manuela Orlandi and other cold cases, in Rome, Dec. 20, 2022. The Vatican has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case and weeks after her family asked the Italian Parliament to take up the cause. On Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, Pietro Orlandi called the prosecutor's decision a “positive step” that the Vatican has apparently changed its mind, gotten over its resistance and now will go over the case from the start. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)
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Public now can see Benedict’s tomb at St. Peter’s Basilica
The tombstone of former Pope Benedict XVI is seen in The Holy Grotto of the Vatican, January 8, 2023. Vatican Media/­Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Pope Benedict’s funeral was simple, fairly small and brought the ‘two popes’ era to an end
Pope Francis, touch is forehead as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re spreads incense on the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI during a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. Benedict died at 95 on Dec. 31 in the monastery on the Vatican grounds where he had spent nearly all of his decade in retirement. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Some 200,000 turn out over three days to view Benedict’s body
Mourners queue to see the body of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lied out in state in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, as thousands of people filed by to pay tribute to the pontiff who shocked the world by retiring a decade ago. Benedict died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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An account of Benedict’s papacy to be sealed in his coffin
This handout picture taken and released on January 3, 2023 shows Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (L) and his wife Aniko Levai (2L) paying their respect to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as his body lays in state at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. - Benedict, a conservative intellectual who in 2013 became the first pontiff in six centuries to resign, died on December 31, 2022, at the age of 95. Thousands of Catholics began paying their respects on January 2, 2023 to former pope Benedict XVI at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, at the start of three days of lying-in-state before his funeral. (Photo by Handout / VATICAN MEDIA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HANDOUT / VATICAN"- NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/VATICAN MEDIA/AFP via Getty Images)