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Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who spent 22 years as director of the Vatican press office, died on July 5 at age 80. He is pictured speaking in 2004 alongside a projected image of St. John Paul II. (CNS photo/Arne Dedert, EPA)
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Joaquin Navarro-Valls, former Vatican spokesman, dies of cancer
Catholic News Service
"Joaquin Navarro embodied what Ernest Hemingway defined as courage: grace under pressure."
Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, Germany, is seen in this 2005 file photo. The 83-year-old cardinal died unexpectedly in his sleep July 5 while on vacation in southern Germany. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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Pope praises late-Cardinal Meisner's faithful, fearless dedication
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
The 83-year-old cardinal died unexpectedly in his sleep July 5 while on vacation in southern Germany.
Pope Francis blesses a sick child in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Dec. 15, 2016, during a meeting with patients and workers of Rome's Bambino Gesu children's hospital. Responding to an Associated Press investigation, a top Vatican official said there had been past problems at the hospital, but that the current administration was making a "serious effort to resolve them." (CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters)
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Vatican official says problems at Bambino Gesu hospital are being resolved
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Cardinal Pietro Parolin said some of the problems identified by current and former Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital staff in 2014 were "truly unfounded." But for problems that were verified, there is a "serious effort to resolve them."
Politics & SocietyNews
'Pope's hospital' put children at risk as it chased profits
Nicole Winfield - Associated PressMaria Cheng - Associated Press
The mission of the Vatican hospital is "today more aimed at profit than on caring for children," according to a report from the AP.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller greeting Pope Francis during the 2014 synod on the family. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Pope Francis appoints Spanish Jesuit Ladaria to replace Müller at CDF
Gerard O’Connell
This appointment ensures that the C.D.F. is rowing with and not against the pope on key issues, including the interpretation of “Amoris Laetitia,” synodality and cooperation with the commission for the protection of minors.
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Update: Vatican to announce that Pope Francis has not reconfirmed Müller as head of C.D.F.
Gerard O’Connell
After initial silence from the Vatican in response to news that Müller would not be reconfirmed, an official statement is expected at noon in Rome on July 1.
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