During the virus crisis, Francis has become a 21st century “prisoner of the Vatican,” as one of his predecessors was once known, robbed of the crowds, foreign travel and visits to the peripheries that so defined and popularized his papacy.
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Vatican indicates support to exhume babies at Irish home
Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam has said it was a “priority” for him to re-inter the babies’ bodies in consecrated ground.
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In Italy, mourning families seek justice for victims of coronavirus
Members of an Italian online Facebook group, “We Will Denounce” have demanded that prosecutors in Bergamo investigate whether any crimes contributed to the death toll.
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Vatican arrests businessman in shady London real estate deal
It’s the first arrest in a nearly yearlong investigation into the deal, which has convulsed the Vatican, raised questions about Pope Francis’ seven-year financial reform effort and exposed Machiavellian turf battles at the Holy See.
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Pope Francis allows French Cardinal Barbarin, embroiled in abuse cover-up, to resign
Lyon Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, 69, had offered to resign when the Lyon court in March 2019 first convicted him and gave him a six-month suspended sentence for failing to report the predator priest to police.
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Pope Francis tells scandal-marred Legion of Christ they still haven’t reformed
Pope Francis told the Legion of Christ religious order Saturday it still has a long road of reform ahead, making clear that 10 years of Vatican-mandated rehabilitation hadn’t purged it of the toxic influences of its pedophile founder.
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Legion of Christ vows better abuse response amid new scandal
The Legion of Christ religious order is promising accountability and transparency following damaging new revelations of sex abuse and cover-up that have undermined its credibility, a decade after revelations of its pedophile founder disgraced the order.
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Vatican sees intense interest in opening of Pius XII archive
Some Jewish groups and historians have said Pius, who was pope from 1939-1958, stayed silent during the Holocaust and didn’t do enough to save lives.
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Vatican police perform new raids in London real estate case
To date, Vatican prosecutors haven’t charged anyone. The pace and gaps in the case suggested the investigation partly involved a turf war in the Vatican.
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Vatican seeks to explain absence of Archbishop Georg Gänswein after book scandal
The Vatican sought Wednesday to explain the absence of a key member of Pope Francis’ protocol team following the scandal over a book on priestly celibacy co-written by Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI.