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Pope Francis celebrates a mass for deceased prelates in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

Pope moves against secretariat of state amid finance scandal

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. Pompeo is meeting Thursday with top Vatican officials, a day after tensions over U.S. opposition to the Vatican’s China policy spilled out in public. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pompeo, Vatican talk China after tensions spill out publicly

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis blesses newly ordained priests in the St. Damaso courtyard on the occasion of the weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

What’s in a name? At the Vatican, a debate on inclusiveness

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis speaks during the Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, after celebrating a Mass for the Feast of Rome's Patrons Saints Peter and Paul, at the Vatican, Monday, June 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Polish group seeks pope’s action against sex abuse, cover-up

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The Vatican says Emeritus Pope Benedict is in Germany to be with his brother, who is in poor health. Benedict on Thursday arrived in Regensburg, Germany, where his brother, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, lives, and where “he will spend the necessary time,” the Vatican said in a statement. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)

Emeritus Pope Benedict in Germany to be with ailing brother

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

Vatican arrests businessman in shady London real estate deal

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Vatican removes financial watchdog head as scandal continues

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

A man wearing a mask walks in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, March 6, 2020. A Vatican spokesman has confirmed the first case of coronavirus at the city-state. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Friday that non-emergency medical services at the Vatican have been closed so they can be sanitized following the positive test on Thursday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican confirms 1st virus case as pope recovers from cold

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Sept. 9, 2017, file photo, a Mexican flag flies at half-mast on the Metropolitan Cathedral during three days of mourning following a deadly earthquake and hurricane, in Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

AP Explains: Vatican to send abuse investigators to Mexico

By MARÍA VERZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, March 4, 2013 file photo, Cardinal Robert Sarah, of Guinea, walks in St. Peter's Square after attending a cardinals' meeting, at the Vatican. Retired Pope Benedict XVI wrote the book, &quot;From the Depths of Our Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy and the Crisis of the Catholic Church,&quot; along with his fellow conservative, Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, who heads the Vatican's liturgy office and has been a quiet critic of Francis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Cardinal at center of 2 Popes storm doubles down on celibacy

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

The statue of St. Peter is silhouetted in front of St. Peter's Basilica prior to the arrival of Pope Francis for his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope taps former Bank of Italy exec to head watchdog agency

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE -- In this May 29, 2015 file photo, Rene Bruelhart, director of the Financial Information Authority, an institution established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 to monitor the monetary and commercial activities of Vatican agencies, speaks during a press conference at the Vatican. Pope Francis on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, replaced Brulhart amid continuing fallout from a controversial Vatican police raid on the agency’s offices that jeopardized the Holy See’s international financial reputation. The Vatican said the replacement’s name would be released next week. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican financial watchdog now a ‘shell’ after police raid

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis, top right, recites the Angelus prayer from his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican financial watchdog defends actions after raid

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis signs an autograph on a drum as he meets members of a Bavarian Orchestra from Augsburg, Germany, at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican cardinal skeptical about married priests for Amazon

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

First Chinese bishop consecrated with pope’s OK after deal

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Vatican denies interference in debate over Franco exhumation

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This picture taken on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 shows the view of the Teutonic Cemetery inside the Vatican. On Thursday, July 11, 2019 the Vatican opened a pair of tombs inside the cemetery after further investigation into the case of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, Emanuela Orlandi, who disappeared in 1983 only to find that the tombs were empty. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican mystery over missing girl deepens as bones are found

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan.4, 2018 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets Apostolic Nuncio to France Luigi Ventura during his New Year address to diplomats at the Elysee Palace in Paris. France's foreign ministry says that the Vatican has decided to lift the immunity of its ambassador in France Archbishop Luigi Ventura, who is accused of sexual assault. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP, File)

Vatican lifts French archbishop’s immunity in groping probe

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Mathieu De La Souchere speaks on his cellphone after an interview with The Associated Press in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. One of the half-dozen men who have accused the Vatican’s ambassador to France of groping them is taking his complaint directly to the Vatican after claiming the Holy See had invoked diplomatic immunity in a French criminal probe. Mathieu De La Souchere met with one of Pope Francis’ sex abuse advisers on Wednesday after filing a police report in Paris earlier this year. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Frenchman takes groping complaint case to Vatican

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Tombs to be opened in Vatican City in 1983 missing teen case

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