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Pope Francis waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September, the Vatican announced Friday, April 12 ,2024, confirming the longest trip of Francis’ papacy that is sure to test his health, stamina and mobility. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope will travel to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore in longest trip of papacy

By Nicole Winfield and Niniek Karmini - Associated Press

Pope Francis waves as he leaves after his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September, the Vatican announced Friday, April 12 ,2024, confirming the longest trip of Francis’ papacy that is sure to test his health, stamina and mobility. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope Francis loses support from U.S. Catholics, sparked by partisan divide

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis meets with relatives of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas, at the Vatican, Monday, April 8, 2024. Israel sent troops to Khan Younis in December, part of its blistering ground offensive that came in response to a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 into southern Israel. Israeli authorities say 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and roughly 250 people taken hostage. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pope marks six-month anniversary of Hamas attacks by meeting with relatives of hostages

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Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Pope Francis showed tourists and pilgrims the rosary and Gospel booklet that the 23-year-old Ukrainian Alexander had with him when he was killed in Russia's war.(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope shows off rosary of slain Ukrainian soldier, denounces ‘madness of war’

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Pope Francis asperses holy water as he celebrates Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope overcomes health concerns to preside over a blustery Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis' chair is seen prior to the start of the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) in front of the Colosseum on Good Friday, in Rome, Friday, March 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini/Pool)

Vatican confirms pope will preside over Easter Vigil after he skipped Good Friday at last minute

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis leads the liturgy of the passion on Good Friday in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Friday, Mar. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope Francis skips Good Friday event to preserve health ahead of Easter, Vatican says

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Pope Francis celebrates the Holy Chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis, looking strong, issues lengthy marching orders to priests during Holy Thursday Mass

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis arrives in the Paul VI hall on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope appears in better health, praises Israeli and Arab fathers who both lost daughters in conflict

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This Feb. 15, 2007 file photo shows then Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe, in Bruges, Belgium. Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. (AP Photo/Peter Maenhoudt, file)

Belgian bishop defrocked 14 years after admitting to abusing nephew

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italian journalist and writer Fabio Marchese Ragona holds a copy of "Life: My Story Through History" as he poses for a picture prior to the start of an interview with the Associated Press, in Rome, Thursday, March 13, 2024. Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn't suffering from any health problems that would require doing so, in an autobiography, "Life: My Story Through History," which is being published Tuesday and written with Italian journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope acknowledges criticism, health issues but says in upcoming memoir he has no plans to retire

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Dinner with Pope Francis illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

My dinner with Pope Francis: Examining the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas

By Andrew P. Napolitano

People waves Ukrainian flags before Pope Francis Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis’ ‘white flag’ comment is met by criticism from Ukraine and allies

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope appears unable to climb a few steps as respiratory and mobility problems take their toll

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Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope asks an aide to read a speech aloud for him, raising further concerns over his health

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Pope Francis gives a candy to a baby at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis, recovering from flu, remembers land mine victims on treaty anniversary

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Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis had diagnostic tests in a Rome hospital after his weekly audience

By Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves after presiding over the liturgy of the ashes in the Basilica of Santa Sabina in Rome on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis cancels a meeting with Rome deacons because of mild flu, the Vatican says

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In this image made available by Vatican Media, Argentine President Javier Milei, right, greets Pope Francis prior to the start of the canonization mass of Argentine first female saint, María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa also known as "Mama Antula" presided over by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. At center Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino looks on. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Pope and Argentine President Milei embrace after pontiff canonizes Argentina’s first female saint

By Nicole Winfield and Alessandra Tarantino and Gianfranco Stara - Associated Press

Rita Canteros walks out of a parish church carrying a painting of María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa, more commonly known by her Quechua name of “Mama Antula,” on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. The canonization of “Mama Antula” in a Feb. 11th ceremony to be presided by Pope Francis at St. Peter's Basilica marks the first time a female from Argentina will become saint. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Mama Antula, the Jesuit who didn’t want to marry or be a nun, will be Argentina’s first female saint

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