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U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke is pictured after receiving Communion during the funeral Mass for Australian Cardinal George Pell in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Jan. 14, 2023.

Pope Francis planning to withdraw Cardinal Burke's Vatican salary, sources say

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Pope Francis told the prefects of Vatican dicasteries that he saw no reason for the Vatican to continue giving U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke a monthly salary and questioned why the Vatican should be providing him with a free apartment in Rome, various sources have confirmed.

Pope Francis gives his blessing to people gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican and watching a livestream of the midday Angelus prayer Nov. 26, 2023. The pope did not go to his window overlooking the square because, he said, he had a "problem with inflammation of my lungs."

For health reasons, Pope Francis cancels COP28 trip

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"With great regret," Pope Francis has accepted his doctors' advice to not travel to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 1-3 and is looking at alternative ways the Vatican can participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the director of the Vatican press office said.

Pope Francis gives his blessing to people gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican and watching a livestream of the midday Angelus prayer Nov. 26, 2023. The pope did not go to his window overlooking the square because, he said, he had a "problem with inflammation of my lungs."

Pope Francis leads Angelus from his residence because of illness

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Explaining that he had a "problem with inflammation of my lungs," Pope Francis led the recitation of the Angelus prayer from the chapel of his residence rather than from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square.

Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics and co-chair of the Synodal Path, and Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops' conference, attend the fifth synodal assembly in Frankfurt March 9, 2023.

Pope Francis sees threat of church in Germany moving away from Rome

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Pope Francis expressed his concern about concrete initiatives individual dioceses and the Catholic Church in Germany as a whole are taking, including the establishment of a synodal council, which, he said, threaten to steer it away from the universal church.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda speaks to reporters at the Vatican Feb. 20, 2023, about the release of a two-volume book on the theology of the priesthood and the need to promote a better understanding of priesthood in a "synodal" church.

Cardinal denies work on changing conclave

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Cardinal Gianfranco Ghirlanda, a top advisor to Pope Francis on matters involving canon law, denied reports the Pope had asked him to draft revisions to the rules governing the preparations for electing a new pope.

Pope Francis meets Sultan al-Jaber, the president-designate of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP28, his delegation and Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2023. COP28 is set to open Nov. 30 in Dubai.

Vatican confirms papal trip to Dubai for climate conference

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Pope Francis will travel to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Dec. 1-3 to participate in the U.N. Climate Change Conference, the Vatican press office confirmed.

Members of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops use tablets to vote on the gathering's synthesis document Oct. 28, 2023, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican.

Synod synthesis shows agreement, divergences, including on 'synodality'

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A report summarizing discussions at the assembly of the Synod of Bishops said the church may need more welcoming pastoral approaches, especially to people who feel excluded, but also acknowledged fears of betraying traditional church teachings and practices.

Pope Francis greets Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik during a private audience at the Vatican in this Jan. 3, 2022, file photo.

Pope Francis calls on doctrinal dicastery to formally investigate Father Rupnik

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Pope Francis has lifted the statute of limitations on abuse accusations against Father Marko Rupnik to allow for a formal investigation of the case by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

A bishop watches a video screen as his tablet with synod documents is open during the first session of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Oct. 4, 2023.

Confidential synod documents made available on unsecured server

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Some confidential documents from the assembly of the Synod of Bishops were accessible online to anyone who had the address before synod officials restored the need for a username and password, said Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the Dicastery for Communication.

Panelists open the conference “New Documents from the Pontificate of Pope Pius XII” at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Oct. 9, 2023. From the left are Rome Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni; Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state; Auxiliary Bishop Étienne Vetö of Reims, France, and Suzanne Brown-Fleming from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Study, not blame or shame, needed with pope's wartime record, scholar says

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The era of divisive debate about Pope Pius XII has been left behind, and now Catholics and Jews, historians and theologians must take up serious and collaborative study, said the co-organizer of a major conference looking at the early results of new research into the wartime pontificate.

Pope Francis speaks to visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sept. 27, 2023.

Pope Francis responds to cardinals on blessings for homosexuals, female priests

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The Catholic Church, in pursuit of "pastoral prudence," should discern if there are ways of giving blessings to homosexual persons that do not alter the church's teaching on marriage, Pope Francis said.

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