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Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, on Oct. 18, 2023. One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the United Nations that Pope Francis violated his human rights by authorizing wide-ranging surveillance during the investigation. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Defendant in Vatican trial takes case to U.N., accuses pope of violating rights with surveillance

By Nicole Winfield - 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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FILE - Cardinal Raymond Burke applauds during a news conference at the Italian Senate, in Rome, on Sept. 6, 2018. Pope Francis has taken measures to punish one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal Raymond Burke, by yanking his right to a Vatican apartment and salary in the second such radical action against a conservative American prelate this month, according to two people briefed on the measures. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope punishes leading critic Cardinal Burke in second action against conservative American prelates

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Former Vatican's first auditor general, Libero Milone, left, speaks flanked by his lawyer Romano Vaccarella during a press conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. Two Vatican trials are coming to a head and posing uncomfortable questions for the Holy See, given they both underscore Pope Francis’ absolute power and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

The pope’s absolute power, and the problems it can cause, are on display in 2 Vatican trials

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Maria Lia Zervino one of the first women chosen by Pope Francis to be on the Dicastery for Bishops poses for a picture during an interview with the Associated Press in Rome, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. For Zervino, who worked alongside the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio when both held positions in the Argentine bishops conference, the upcoming synod of bishops is a watershed moment for the church and quite possibly the most consequential thing Francis will have undertaken as pope. This edition is different because Francis has allowed women and other laypeople to vote alongside bishops. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Women’s voices and votes loom large as pope is to open a Vatican meeting on church’s future

By Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas - Associated Press

This undated photo shows Polish farmer Jozef Ulma with his pregnant wife Wiktoria and their six children. The Ulmas were killed with their children by the Nazis in 1944 for having sheltered Jews during World War II. The Ulma family, including the child that Wiktoria was pregnant with, are being beatified by the Vatican in a ceremonious Mass in their home village of Markowa, Poland, on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. (Mateusz Szpytma, Deputy head of Poland's IPN history institute via AP)

Vatican holds unprecedented beatification of Polish family of 9 killed for hiding Jews

By Monika Scislowska - Associated Press

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, on Dec. 20, 2022. The Vatican on Wednesday July 12, 2023 sought to tamp down the latest tempest over the 1983 disappearance of a Vatican employee’s teen-age daughter, after Italian media claimed a new scoop in the investigation that the family immediately dismissed. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican weighs in on latest ‘Vatican Girl’ tempest after investigations are reopened

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

People hold pictures of missing girl Emanuela Orlandi during a sit-in in St.Peter's Square as Pope Francis, at the window of his studio in background, recites the Angelus noon prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, June 25, 2023. The Pope in his speech remembered the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-old daughter of a lay employee of the Holy See, that vanished June 22, 1983, after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Parliamentary inquest into ‘Vatican Girl’ mystery moves forward as pope acknowledges family’s pain

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A view of the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, where Pope Francis is recovering from the abdominal surgery he underwent on Wednesday, June 7. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope expected to be released soon from hospital after abdominal surgery: Vatican

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A candle with the image of Pope Francis is left in front of the windows of the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, June 11, 2023, where Pope Francis is recovering from the abdominal surgery he underwent on Wednesday. Pope Francis, following doctors' advice, skipped Sunday's customary public blessing to allow him to better heal after abdominal surgery. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Hospitalized Pope Francis follows Mass on TV, lunches with medical personnel and aides

By Frances D'Emilio - 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. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican: Pope Francis to leave hospital on Saturday, eats pizza

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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 arrives for a pilgrimage at the Lac Saint Anne, Canada, on July 26, 2022. The Vatican on Thursday, March 30, 2023, responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property law today. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Responding to Indigenous, Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Lawyer Laura Sgro, left, listens to her client Pietro Orlandi, brother of Manuela, a 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee who disappeared in 1983, during 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)

Vatican reopens investigation into teen’s 1983 disappearance

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

People line up to enter Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican where late Pope Benedict XVI is being laid in state at The Vatican, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Tens of thousands view Benedict XVI’s body at Vatican

By Giada Zampano and Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope tightens oversight of Vatican-linked foundations

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

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

President of the Metis community, Cassidy Caron, second left, and other delegates arrive to speak to the media in St. Peter's Square after their meeting with Pope Francis at The Vatican, March 28, 2022. Pope Francis’ trip to Canada, which begins Sunday July 24, 2022, to apologize for the horrors of church-run Indigenous residential schools marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church’s missionary legacy in the Americas, spurred on by the first American pope and the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the school sites. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Pope’s Indigenous tour signals a rethink of mission legacy

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A view of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Tuesday Nov. 10, 2020. The Vatican has said on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, that it was imposing a unified policy that prohibits investments in such things as pornography and weapons and prioritizes prudent investing in industries that are environmentally sensitive and produce for the common good. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Vatican imposes new investment policy amid financial scandal

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis in a wheelchair delivers his address during an audience with members of the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Friday, May 13, 2022. Pope Francis suffers from strained ligaments in his right knee. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope to visit Canada to apologize for Indigenous abuses

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press