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Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Articles by Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Professor Huang Jiefu, Chairman of the Chinese National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, talks during an interview with The Associated Press, at the Chinese embassy to Italy, in Rome, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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China seeks to convince the pope (and the world) its controversial organ harvesting practice is over
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Chinese officials say the country has stopped using executed prisoners as organ donors, but the international medical community remains skeptical.
Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, general secretary of the Synod of Bishops, and Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, holds a copy of Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the family, "Amoris Laetitia" ("The Joy of Love"), during a news conference for the document's release at the Vatican April 8, 2016. The exhortation is the concluding document of the 2014 and 2015 synods of bishops on the family. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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German church OKs case-by-case Communion for remarried 
Nicole Winfield - Associated PressGeir Moulson - Associated Press
A statement from the German bishops' conference "opens the possibility of receiving the sacraments of reconciliation and the Eucharist."
Pope Francis speaks with Fra' Matthew Festing, the 79th prince and grand master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, during a private audience at the Vatican June 20. (CNS photo/Claudio Peri, pool via Reuters) (June 23, 2014)
FaithNews
The Vatican responds to Knights of Malta's attempt to discredit the pope's investigation
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The remarkable showdown is the latest example Pope Francis clashing with more conservative elements in the Catholic Church.
FaithNews
Pope Francis gathers Rome's homeless to celebrate Epiphany.
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Francis said he too wanted to give the faithful the gift of God's mercy for the coming year.

FaithNews
Pope Francis visits Sweden for 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation
Karl Ritter - Associated PressNicole Winfield - Associated Press
Sweden's small Catholic community is growing, mainly due to immigration.
Pope Francis waves to faithful as he is driven through the crowd ahead of his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Pope Francis calls for a new work of mercy: care for the environment
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Francis made the ambitious proposal in a message to mark the church's World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.
A woman cries ahead of a state funeral for some of the victims of last Wednesday's earthquake, in Amatrice, central Italy, Aug. 30. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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As earthquake victims were laid to rest, a bishop warned against further harm
Andrea Rosa - Associated PressNicole Winfield - Associated Press
An evening mass was held on Aug. 30 for 37 people killed in the Italian earthquake.
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The Vatican is upping the ante in 'Amoris Laetitia' debates
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Two articles orchestrated by the Vatican defend Pope Francis' "The Joy of Love."
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Vatican convicts 2 in leaks scandal; journalists go free
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
A Vatican tribunal has declared it had no jurisdiction to put two journalists on trial for publishing confidential documents.
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Pope travels to Armenia after genocide flap and new tensions
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Pope Francis is making his first foray into the former Soviet Union with a weekend visit to Armenia, a year after he riled Turkey by declaring the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians genocide and amid fresh tensions with rival Azerbaijan.The Vatican has long cheered the Armenian cause,