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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

Nuns wave as Pope Francis delivers his blessing from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on June 7, 2020. Pope Francis on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 drew attention to a taboo problem that the Vatican has long ignored or downplayed: the abuses of power by mother superiors against nuns who, because of their vows of obedience, have little recourse but to obey. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this April 29, 2016, photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as he takes part in a congress on the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact, being held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) **FILE**

Vatican cancels live broadcast of Biden greeting pope

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, file photo, Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during press conference in Rome. A trial is slated to begin on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, within the Vatican City’s imposing walls of 10 defendants, including once-powerful cardinal Becciu, in a case based on a sprawling probe into the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See’s portfolio of assets, including donations by countless Catholics from the pews. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Cardinal, 9 others on trial at Vatican in money scandals

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Pope Francis appears on a balcony of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, July 11, 2021, where he is recovering from intestinal surgery, for the traditional Sunday blessing and Angelus prayer. Pope Francis is 84 and had a part of his colon removed a week ago. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis to return to Vatican ‘as soon as possible,’ spokesman says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, July 4, 2021, file photo, Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to recite the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. In a brief announcement Sunday afternoon the Vatican said Pope Francis has gone to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgery for a stenosis, or restriction, of the large intestine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican: Pope alert and well a day after intestinal surgery to remove half of his colon

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Australian Cardinal George Pell is interviewed by The Associated Press in his home at the Vatican, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Pell, who was convicted and then acquitted of sex abuse charges in his native Australia, is spending his newfound freedom in Rome. Pell strongly denied the charges and his supporters believe he was scapegoated for the Australian Catholic Churchs botched response to clergy sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A clear conscience helped Cardinal Pell endure solitary confinement before exoneration

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday May 16, 1998 filer, members of the papal Swiss Guard carry the coffin of Alois Estermann, newly appointed commander of the Swiss papal guards at the Vatican, out of the St. Stephan's church in Beromuenster, Switzerland. The Vatican secretary of state has intervened personally in one of the most sensational Vatican scandals of recent times: The 1998 murder of the Swiss Guard commander and his wife, purportedly by a disgruntled younger Swiss Guardsman who then took his own life. Cardinal Pietro Parolin asked the Vatican City State tribunal to pay “particular attention” to the request by the mother of the accused guardsman, Cedric Tornay, to have access to the court files of the investigation that was officially archived in 1999. (AP Photo/TEAM, File )

Vatican No. 2 intervenes to shed light on Swiss Guard deaths

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2019 file photo, Pope Francis listens to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, standing at left with back to camera, as he delivers his speech on the occasion of the pontiff's Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia, in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. Pope Francis sent another chilling message to Vatican-based cardinals on Friday about his intent to hold them accountable for criminal misconduct, removing the legal obstacles that had prevented them from ever being prosecuted by the Vatican’s criminal tribunal. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)

Pope enables Vatican prosecutions of cardinals, bishops

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

British judge: Vatican made ‘appalling’ claims in UK probe

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Feb. 2, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Mass with members of religious institutions on the occasion of the celebration of the World Day of Consecrated Life, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The Vatican has decreed, Monday, March 15, 2021, that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.” The Vatican’s orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal response to a question about whether Catholic clergy can bless gay unions (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, pool)

LGBTQ Catholics stung by Vatican rebuff of same-sex unions

By DAVID CRARY and LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, a view of St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The Vatican said Friday it’s expecting a 50 million euro deficit this year because of pandemic-related losses, though the deficit climbs to 80 million euros when donations from the faithful and other funds are excluded. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican projects nearly 50M-euro deficit due to COVID losses

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021 file photo, people are reflected on a puddle as they walk in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. The Vatican is taking Pope Francis’ pro-vaccine stance very seriously: Any Vatican employee who refuses to get a coronavirus shot without valid medical reason risks being fired.A Feb. 8 decree signed by the governor of the Vatican City State sparked heated debate Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 since its provisions go well beyond the generally voluntary nature of COVID-19 vaccinations in Italy and much of the rest of the world. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Anti-vax at the Vatican? You might lose your job

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope again cancels appearances due to nerve pain

Associated Press

Australian agency reviewing data on Vatican money transfers

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

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, Dec. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican: Pope to visit Iraq in March, pandemic permitting

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 file photo, Diego Armando Maradona, left, greets Pope Francis in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, ahead of an inter-religious match for peace. Diego Maradona has died. The Argentine soccer great was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity. He was 60. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Vatican: Pope prays for Maradona, fondly recalls meeting him

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2001 file photo, U.S. Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, D.C., shakes hands with Pope John Paul II during the General Audience with the newly appointed cardinals in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican. McCarrick was one of the three Americans on a record list of 44 new cardinals who were elevated in a ceremony at the Vatican on Feb. 21, 2001. (AP Photo/Massimo Sambucetti, File)

Pope Francis vows to end sexual abuse after McCarrick report

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press