Cardinal Christoph Schönborn said that the publication of Archbishop Gänswein’s tell-all book on Pope Benedict’s private communications was “unseemly.”
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Funeral for Cardinal Pell, critic and close advisor of Pope Francis, held at Vatican
Pope Francis imparted the final blessing at the funeral of Cardinal Pell, who decried his papacy as a “catastrophe.”
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Cardinal Pell blasts Pope Francis in secret memo: ‘This pontificate is a disaster’
Cardinal Pell, who died Tuesday, had written a memo outlining his concerns about Pope Francis’ papacy, which was published soon after his death.
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‘Vatican Girl’: subject of Netflix’s true-crime show has case reopened by Holy See
The Vatican said Monday it 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.
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Pope Francis has private audience with longtime Benedict aide amid tell-all book fallout
Pope Francis met on Monday with Archbishop Georg Gänswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI who has raised eyebrows with an extraordinary memoir.
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Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime secretary to publish new tell-all book exposing ‘dark maneuvers’
Archbishop Georg Gaenswein’s “Nothing but the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI” is being published this month by the Piemme imprint of Italian publishing giant Mondadori.
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Despite failings, Pope Benedict fought sex abuse more than any pope before him
Though he is criticized for the sexual abuse crisis in the church during his papacy, Benedict XVI did more than anyone before him to turn the Vatican around on clergy sexual abuse.
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What happens when a pope emeritus dies? Pope Benedict’s health raises questions
The only thing certain is that the most important ritual following the death of a pope—a conclave to elect a new one—does not apply.
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Italian lawmakers seek inquiry into ‘Vatican Girl,’ the Holy See’s 40-year missing person mystery
Parliamentary inquests have been used in the past to dig deeply into unresolved Mafia crimes and terrorist attacks, and can be activated to conduct investigations “on matters of public interest,” according to the Italian Constitution.
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Vatican investigator says abuse allegations against Jesuit Marko Rupnik are true
Bishop Daniele Libanori also said the claims of the women about the Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik were true and that they had “seen their lives ruined by the evil suffered and by the complicit silence” of the church.