“I don’t know where they got it from last week that I was going to resign…. It didn’t even cross my mind,” Pope Francis said in the first interview since his July 4 operation.
Gerard O’Connell
Gerard O’Connell is America’s senior Vatican correspondent and author of The Election of Pope Francis: An Inside Story of the Conclave That Changed History. He has been covering the Vatican since 1985.
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In first interview since his July operation, Pope Francis says his life was saved (for the second time) by a nurse
“A nurse, a man with great experience, saved my life,” Pope Francis revealed in the first interview he has given since the operation on his intestine July 4.
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Pope prays for those killed in suicide attack in Kabul and calls on Christians to pray and fast for Afghanistan
Pope Francis said Christians “cannot remain indifferent” in “historic moments such as this one.”
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John Paul I, who was pope for 33 days, is likely to be beatified in 2022
Recognition of an alleged miraculous healing would open the door to John Paul’s beatification and decide the date for it, which is likely to be in 2022.
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Pope Francis appoints Italian Sister Alessandra Smerilli as interim secretary to the Vatican dicastery for human development
The appointment makes her the highest ranking woman in the Roman Curia.
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In a historic first, a cardinal stood trial at the Vatican over involvement in a real estate scandal
History was made in the Vatican this morning when the trial against Cardinal Angelo Becciu and nine other persons on charges including abuse of office, embezzlement and fraud.
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The 2020 finances of the Roman Curia were better than expected — but not great
The consolidated financial statement of the Roman Curia for 2020 revealed better-than-expected results even though the overall situation is still quite difficult.
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Pope Francis restricts celebration of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass in new decree
Pope Francis has revoked the faculty given by his predecessors that allowed any Catholic priest of the Latin Rite to celebrate the Tridentine Mass.
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Pope Francis returns to Vatican 10 days after successful operation
Pope Francis returned to the Vatican just before midday, July 14, after spending nine days in the Gemelli hospital recovering from an intestinal operation on July 4.
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Pope Francis continues treatment in hospital so he can return to Vatican ‘as soon as possible’
Pope Francis “is continuing his planned treatment and rehabilitation, which will allow him to return to the Vatican as soon as possible.”