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• Pope appoints controversial protégé as head of CDF
• Was Moscow mediation mission a failure?
• Ignore Rome ‘at your own peril’, advises Vegas Archbishop
• Pope’s communication reform a trainwreck?
• Pope cracking down on dissenting American bishops?

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• Patriarch Kirill backs Putin during Wagner uprising
• Is the Pope’s new anti-abuse framework working?
• ‘Piss Christ’ artist invited to Vatican: why?
• Can the Italian State survive Jubilee 2025?
• ‘Vatican Girl’: Pope offers family words of comfort
• Priests and laity facing sanctions for ’hatred’?

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In this episode:

• Pope returns from the hospital
• Benedict XVI’s secretary Gänswein returns to Germany
• Jesuits expel Fr. Rupnik over abuse accusations
• ‘Vatican Girl’: brother demands Pope’s attention at Sunday Angelus
• John Kerry refuses to speak to Pope’s Ukraine mediator role

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• Why is the Vatican struggling to be clear about Pope's health?
• Is the Pope’s Ukraine envoy going to Moscow?
• 1858 infamous kidnapping could lead to Canon Law reform
• Rise of the ‘preferiti’ as the Pope’s health declines?
• Controversial Nobel Laureate crashes fraternity party

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In this episode:

• Pope makes American president of Vatican Supreme Court
• Pope sends Archbishop Gänswein packing?
• Pope removes possibility for appeals in criminal trials
• ‘Vatican Girl’ conspiracy implicates Dominicans?
• Naked protester climbs on top of St. Peter's altar

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In this episode:

• Pope skips out on audience - another health scare? 
• ‘Trial of the Century’: conspiracy to defame Becciu?
• Vatican condemns actions of environmental activists?
• Italy’s ‘obedient rebel’, Fr. Lorenzo Milani
• Pope avoiding questions from critical journalists?

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In this episode:

• Pope’s Ukraine envoy “papabile”
• POTUS vs. Pope: Ukraine, Syria, China
• New Vatican stamps: glorifying colonialism? 
• Pope’s new laws not labor-friendly?
• Person rams Vatican gates with car

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In this episode:

• Ukraine President: Pope needs to fall in or butt out
• Meeting of 2 Popes: embracing Coptic Martyrs
• Pope’s charity gets new Japanese leader
• Negotiating with terrorists: US and Vatican
• Pope allows laity to participate in Vatican government

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In this episode:

• Is there really a papal mission to end Russia’s war?
• King’s Coronation: Cardinal finally present after 400-year absence
• Papal contender invokes ancient Roman legend on abortion
• ‘Vatican girl’: investigation going nowhere?
• Naples soccer: important win for the South

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In this episode:

• Pope confronted on Vatican Press Office lies?
• Pope vs Orbán: competing visions of Christianity?
• Pope lobbies for peace with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan
• Vatican: women voting in next Synod
• Gänswein being exiled from Vatican?

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