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Pope Francis, recovering from bronchitis, to leave hospital, attend Holy Week events

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis waves to faithful during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital on Wednesday for some previously scheduled tests, slipping out of the Vatican after his general audience and before the busy start of Holy Week this Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope showing ‘marked improvement,’ could leave hospital soon

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis hugs a child at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican: Pope Francis goes to hospital for scheduled tests

Associated Press

Pope Francis meets children at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. Pope Francis went to a Rome hospital on Wednesday for some previously scheduled tests, slipping out of the Vatican after his general audience and before the busy start of Holy Week this Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis hospitalized in Rome following chest pains, infection, will remain ‘several days’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis delivers his speech as he presides over a mass celebrated on the occasion of the "24 hours for the Lord" event for an 'open churches initiative', at the Santa Maria delle Grazie parish church, in Rome, Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Crime and sin: Pope Francis’ comments on homosexuality raise more questions than answers

By Stephen L. Mikochik

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis says married priests possible, calls celibacy a ‘temporary prescription’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. Pope Francis has a bad cold and has opted to skip speeches he was set to deliver Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, to visiting groups of priests and scientists, the Vatican said. Francis, 86, did meet with young Orthodox priests and monks and members of the Max Planck Institute, the German research organization that is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Pope Francis cancels an appointment, some speeches due to bad cold

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

Security personnel takes position near the Cathedral Notre Dame du Congo in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday Jan. 29, 2023. Pope Francis will be in Congo and South Sudan for a six-day trip starting Jan, 31, 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/Jerome Delay)

‘Hands off Africa!’: Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo

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

Pope Francis speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops in some parts of the world support laws that criminalize homosexuality or discriminate against the LGBTQ community, and he himself referred to homosexuality in terms of "sin." But he attributed attitudes to culture backgrounds, and said bishops in particular need to undergo a process of change to recognize the dignity of everyone. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis says homosexuality not a crime, but he still calls it a sin

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis, centre, sits by the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI St. Peter's Square during a funeral mass 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)

Faithful mourn Benedict XVI at funeral presided over by pope

By Nicole WInfield and Giada Zampano and Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

The body of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lied out in state inside St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. Pope Benedict, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95.(AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Pope Francis praises ‘gentle’ Benedict ahead of funeral

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, center, meets with the winners of the 2022 Ratzinger Prize, Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler, left, and father Michel Fedou, at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery inside the Vatican where Benedict XVI lives, in this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (Fondazione Vaticana J.Ratzinger via AP)

Benedict ‘stable’ as special Mass for ailing retired pontiff planned in Rome

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis is flanked by Jesuits' superior general Arturo Sosa Abascal, left as he leaves the Church of the Gesu', mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), after presiding a mass on March 12, 2022. The head of Pope Francis’ Jesuit religious order admitted Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, that a famous Jesuit priest had been convicted of one of the most serious crimes in the Catholic Church some two years before the Vatican decided to shelve another case against him for allegedly abusing other adult women under his spiritual care.The Rev. Arturo Sosa, the Jesuit superior general, made the admission during a briefing with journalists that was dominated by the scandal over the Rev. Marko Ivan Rubnik and the reluctance of both the Vatican and the Jesuits to tell the whole story behind the unusually lenient treatment he received. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Vatican investigator says claims of Jesuit abuse true

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis talks to a guest in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican at the end of his weekly general audience, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope wrote resignation note in case of health impediment

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Pope Francis pauses in front of a nativity scene set up in Paul VI Hall at The Vatican at the end of his weekly general audience, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. Pope Francis called Wednesday for a "humble" Christmas this year, with reduced spending on gifts and for the savings to be donated instead to help the "suffering people of Ukraine." (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope has resignation letter signed if his duty impaired ‘in case of impediment for medical reasons’

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

When’s Easter? Pope wants end to differing dates in Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic traditions

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Pope Francis attends his general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The Vatican tribunal weighing a financial fraud case heard from an unusual witness Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022 when a secret recording of Pope Francis was played to the court about the Holy See’s payments to free a nun held hostage by al-Qaida linked militants. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican court hears secret recording of pope on hostage fees

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis arrives to preside over the holy mass in the Cathedral of Asti, northern Italy, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, to meet the diocesan community from which his parents had left to emigrate to Argentina and the young people from all over the region on the occasion of the XXXVII World Youth Day. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope honors family roots in northern Italy with rare outing

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis arrives for his general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, on Nov. 16, 2022. Pope Francis returns to his father’s birthplace in northern Italy on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 for the first time since ascending the papacy to celebrate the 90th birthday of a second cousin who long knew him as simply “Giorgio.” (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope heads to immigrant father’s hometown for birthday party

By Colleen Barry and Gianfranco Stara - Associated Press