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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)
Politics & SocietyNews
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)
FaithNews
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.
Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador, El Salvador, is greeted after Pope Francis elevated him and four other men to cardinal during a June 28 consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Fresh from consistory, new cardinals greet family, friends
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News ServiceJunno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
While Europe has played a significantly weighty role in the development of Christianity, "now we see how the church is growing in numbers in Latin America, in Africa and in Asia. The pope is making this clear. This universal character of the church is very beautiful."
Pope Francis presents a box containing a pallium to Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., at the conclusion of Mass marking the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 29. New archbishops from around the world received their palliums from the pope. The actual imposition of the pallium will take place in the archbishop's archdiocese. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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Pope Francis tells archbishops not to be 'armchair Catholics,' but apostles on the go
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
People must ask themselves whether they are "'armchair Catholics,' who love to chat about how things are going in the church and the world," Pope Francis said, or if they are "apostles on the go," who are on fire with love for God and ready to offer their lives for him.
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