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Pope Francis meets with members of the Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation) Catholic lay movement in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct.15, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope gives pep talk to big lay group after tightening rules

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Pope John XXIII stands and prays in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, on Oct. 12, 1962, during a special audience for delegates from foreign governments to the ecumenical council. Pope Francis commemorates the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council by celebrating a Mass in honor of St. John XXIII, the “good pope” who convened the landmark meetings that modernized the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/File)

Pope Francis marks 60th anniversary of Second Vatican Council

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Pope Francis celebrates mass on the occasion of the 27th national Eucharistic congress, in Matera, southern Italy, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope urges Italians to have more children, welcome migrants

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A woman shows to Pope Francis a t-shirt supporting former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva during the 'Economy of Francesco' meetings with young entrepreneurs for a more inclusive and human economy, in Assisi, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope appeals to the young to save the planet, find peace

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Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope seeks prayers for his ‘peace pilgrimage’ in Kazakhstan

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Pope Francis speaks to cardinals in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican during a mass he celebrated for the newly-created cardinals, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, that concludes a two-day consistory on the Praedicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel) apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia which was promulgated in March. Francis created 20 new cardinals on Saturday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican: Pope clearly condemns Russia’s ‘repugnant’ war

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Cardinals attend a mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican for the newly-created cardinals, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, that concludes a two-day consistory on the Praedicate Evangelium (Preach the Gospel) apostolic constitution reforming the Roman Curia which was promulgated in March. Francis created 20 new cardinals on Saturday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope meets with cardinals on future direction of church

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

New Cardinal Giorgio Marengo poses after after a consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Pope Francis has chosen 20 men to become the Catholic Church's newest cardinals. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope expands ranks of cardinals who’ll likely pick successor

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives in the Paul VI hall for his the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis meets transgender guests of Rome church

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis, left, wears a traditional headdress he was given after his apology to Indigenous people during a ceremony in Maskwacis, Alberta, as part of his papal visit across Canada, Monday, July 25, 2022. Pope Francis crisscrossed Canada this week delivering long overdue apologies to the country's Indigenous groups for the decades of abuses and cultural destruction they suffered at Catholic Church-run residential schools. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope Francis makes a penitential pilgrimage to Canada

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Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal flight back from Canada Saturday, July 30, 2022, where he paid a six-day pastoral visit. Pope Francis wrapped up his Canadian pilgrimage by meeting with Indigenous delegations and visiting Inuit territory in northern Nunavut. In one of his addresses, he assailed the Catholic missionaries who &quot;supported oppressive and unjust policies&quot; against Native peoples in the country's notorious residential schools and vowed to pursue truth and healing. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/ Pool via AP)

Pope: Canadian residential schools were cultural ‘genocide’

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal flight back from Canada Saturday, July 30, 2022, where he paid a six-day pastoral visit. Pope Francis wrapped up his Canadian pilgrimage by meeting with Indigenous delegations and visiting Inuit territory in northern Nunavut. In one of his addresses, he assailed the Catholic missionaries who &quot;supported oppressive and unjust policies&quot; against Native peoples in the country's notorious residential schools and vowed to pursue truth and healing. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/ Pool via AP)

Pope Francis says he’ll slow down or retire: ‘You can change a pope’

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis looks at a woman wearing a flag with the slogan Every Child Matters&quot; on it at the end of a meeting with Indigenous people in Quebec City on Friday, July 29, 2022, part of his papal visit across Canada (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope heads to Nunavut to apologize at end of Canadian tour

By Nicole Winfield and Rob Gillies - Associated Press

FILE - Small boats make their way through the Frobisher Bay inlet in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada on Friday, Aug. 2, 2019. In his extensive papal travels, Pope Francis has never journeyed further north than Iqaluit, the capital city of the Inuit-governed territory of Nunavut in northern Canada. On Friday, July 28, 2022, it will be the third and final stop of the pope's six-day Canadian visit, focused on apologies for abuses of Indigenous youths at Catholic-run boarding schools.(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Pope ends Canadian visit with stop in small, far-north city

By Rob Gillies and David Crary - Associated Press

A woman walks by Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, on April 10, 2020. Pope Francis arrives in Quebec on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at a time when many French Canadians in the province are not only moving away from religion but explicitly rejecting it, embracing secularization long after their forebears built their identify on the rock of the Catholic Church. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Pope in Quebec amid decline of Catholic Church in province

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

Pope Francis is wheeled beside Indigenous chiefs after visiting the Ermineskin Cree Nation Cemetery in Maskwacis, Alberta, during his papal visit across Canada on Monday, July 25, 2022. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope Francis apologizes for ‘catastrophic’ school policy in Canada

By Nicole Winfield and Peter Smith - Associated Press

Illustration on the prohibition of Latin Mass by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

‘Woke’ Pope Francis bans ‘divisive’ Latin Mass

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope seeks prayers for his ‘penitential’ Canadian pilgrimage

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with members of the Neocatechumenal Way community, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, on June 27, 2022. On Thursday, July 14, 2022, Pope Francis told members of three religious orders that they must have “zero tolerance” for sexual abusers in their ranks and that they must report them to protect others. Francis begged them not to cover up the reality of clergy sexual abuse since their obligations were to protect others. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope tells religious orders to report abuse, protect others

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Pope Francis givers his thumbs up as he leaves after the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope denies resignation rumors, hopes to visit Kyiv, Moscow

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