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Pietro Orlandi wears a placard with a picture of his sister Emanuela during a sit-in near Saint Peter's Basilica, in Rome, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. One of the Vatican’s enduring mysteries took another twist Friday, April 14, 2023, with the Vatican pushing back hard against “slanderous” insinuations that St. John Paul II was involved in a molesting young girls. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Papal official rejects new claims in ‘Vatican Girl’ mystery

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

People take part in a march in defense of the late pope, St. John Paul II, in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday April 2, 2023. The march, organized by an anti-abortion group, is being held in the wake of investigative reports alleging that John Paul covered up clerical sex abuse of minors in Poland in the 1970s when he was still Karol Wojtyla, an archbishop in his native Poland. The march takes place on the 18th anniversary of the pope's death. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland marches defend John Paul II from abuse cover-up claim

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Pope Francis on the popemobile arrives at Ndolo airport where he will preside over the Holy Mass in Kinshasa, Congo, Wednesday Feb. 1, 2023. Francis is in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip, hoping to bring comfort and encouragement to two countries that have been riven by poverty, conflicts and what he calls a "colonialist mentality" that has exploited Africa for centuries. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Before a crowd of 1 million, Pope Francis urges Congolese to forgive

By Nicole Winfield, Christina Malkia and Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks in Lafayette Park to visit outside St. John's Church across from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Part of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Embracing religious themes, Trump visits John Paul II shrine

By JONATHAN LEMIRE, JILL COLVIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE and - Associated Press

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visit Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump, first lady visit John Paul II shrine ahead of religious-freedom order

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2008 file photo shows Nicaraguan priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal in his home while under house arrest, in Managua, Nicaragua. Cardenal has died on Sunday, March 1, 2020, according to his personal assistant Luz Marina Acosta. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and priest, dies at 95

By GABRIELA SELSER - Associated Press

Pope Francis is welcomed by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, left, upon his arrival from Rome at Henri Coanda International Airport in Otopeni, near Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 31, 2019. Pope Francis is heading to Romania for a three-day, cross-country pilgrimage that in many ways is completing the 1999 trip by St. John Paul II that marked the first-ever papal visit to a majority Orthodox country. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Pope urges Romanians to work together to confront challenges

By TRISHA THOMAS and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

College says Archdiocese of New York hid priest’s past

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Bloomington students building truck inspired by movie

By BRITTANI HOWELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 1978 file photo, Pope John Paul I smiles and waves with both hands to the crowd filling St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Pope Francis has moved Pope John Paul I, the pope who reigned for only 33 day, a step closer to possible sainthood just days after the Vatican endorsed a new book debunking four decades of conspiracy theories about his sudden, 1978 death. The Vatican said Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017 that Francis had signed a decree declaring that John Paul I lived a life of heroic virtue. The Vatican must confirm a miracle attributed to his intercession for him to be beatified, and a second miracle to be made a saint. (AP Photo, File)

John Paul I closer to sainthood as book debunks conspiracies

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

John Paul II relics to go on display in suburban Chicago

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FILE- In this Saturday, Jan. 1, 2005 file photo, Pope John Paul II delivers his blessing as he enters St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to preside a New Year's Day mass. A book of interviews with the Polish Rev. Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, “Secretary of Two Popes,” released May 2017, has offered some insight into the daily life at the Vatican with John Paul and his German-born successor, Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Secretary of 2 popes sheds light on their daily lives

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he is driven through the crowd after presiding over a solemn ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pope Francis has declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints in an unprecedented canonization ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope Francis declares predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints

By Daniela Petrof - Associated Press

Pope Francis greets faithful as he is driven through the crowd along Via della Conciliazione after celebrating the ceremony for the canonizations of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 27, 2014. Pope Francis declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints before some 800,000 people on Sunday, an unprecedented ceremony made even more historic by the presence in St. Peter's Square of emeritus Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

John Paul II and John XXIII declared saints

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, left, and Pope Francis exchange gifts on the occasion of their private audience at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Komorowski is in Rome to attend Sunday's canonization ceremony for John Paul II and John XXIII where Pope Francis will elevate the two popes to sainthood.(AP Photo/Vincenzo Pinto, Pool)

Pope Francis deeply influenced by both saintly pontiffs

By Daniela Petroff and Nicole Winfield - Associated Press