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• Orlandi walks back JP II pedophilia accusations
• “Trial of the Century”: no-show witness sets back prosecution
• Crackdown on Sistine Chapel festivities
• Radical vandals might call Pope as witness
• Musk vs Pope: biggest claim to infallibility?
• Pope gifts true cross relics to King Charles
• Hungary trip: bridge between east and west?

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• Mobster points at John Paul II in Orlandi case?
• Devout Catholics' don’t trust Pope?
• Ukraine angry at Vatican for Easter controversy
• “Bleeding Madonna”: a scam

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• Pope skips Good Friday
• Backlash: Pope conflates Russian & Ukrainian suffering?
• Pope leads first Holy Week without Benedict
• Rupnik art to be trashed amid sexual abuse allegations?
• Church’s social justice push is part of evangelization

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• Papal health scare: Pope’s stint in the hospital
• Key Vatican advisor to Pope resigns
• Vatican disowns Doctrine of Discovery?
• Prominent atheist calls Pope “vindictive”?

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• Pope supporting controversial NGO?
• Pope too soft on criminal bishops?
• Europe's bishops moving more progressive?
• Former pope’s secretary, Gänswein, exiled to Costa Rica?
• Remembering a Nazi massacre of Italians
• German Synod proving Pope’s limitations?

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• John Paul II covered up sexual abuse?
• Votes in for same-sex blessings in Germany
• Pope pens letter to top Iraqi Muslim leader
• Becciu redeemed? New letters in “Trial of the Century”
• Baseball and brotherhood

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• “Trial of the Century”: Pope Francis rebuffs Becciu
• Vatican hiding investigation records?
• Pope hints at end of priestly celibacy?
• Did the Pope praise Putin and Modi?
• The Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev: a comparison

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• Pope slams traffickers as shipwreck fuels politics
• Were Christians’ votes suppressed in Nigeria?
• 2 years into Ukraine war: is Pope’s soft power waning?
• Is the Pope a hypocrite on synodality?
• Does it matter who’s Pope?

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• Pope changes tune on papal resignation?
• President of Vatican Bank bullied to sign off on loan?
• Jesuit Fr. Rupnik: who lifted the excommunication?
• 5 archbishops passed over for Cardinal’s hat
• Pope Francis: top 5 trips

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• German schism inevitable?
• Pope's private meeting with cardinal on trial a scandal?
• Pope vs. Gänswein: who is right about Benedict?
• Pope meets with China envoy despite balloon controversy
• Vatican trying to keep new bishops’ appointments quiet?

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