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FILE – Vatican investigators Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, right, from Spain, and Archbishop Charles Scicluna, from Malta, walk outside of the Nunciatura Apostolica during a break from meeting with people alleged abused by the Catholic lay group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, in Lima, Peru, on July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Pope dissolves Peru-based Catholic movement with Colorado ties after abuses uncovered by Vatican

January 21, 2025 at 12:58 p.m.

The Sodalitium Christianae Vitae 鈥� which long based its U.S. presence in Colorado 鈥� on Monday confirmed the dissolution.

Pope Francis appears at his studio window for the traditional noon blessing of faithful and pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals, significantly increasing the pool who will one day elect his successor

October 6, 2024 at 11:15 a.m.

The new cardinals will get their red hats at a ceremony, known as a consistory, on Dec. 8.

Pope Francis is cheered by faithful as he arrives to preside over the Sunday mass in King Baudouin Stadium, in Brussels Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope ends troubled Belgium visit by doubling down on abortion and women and praising abuse victims

September 29, 2024 at 7:54 p.m.

Pope Francis wrapped up a troubled visit to Belgium on Sunday by doubling down on his traditional views on women and abortion and demanding that Catholic bishops stop covering up...

Pope Francis greets people in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Dili, East Timor, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Pope expels Denver priest, 9 others from Catholic movement in Peru over “sadistic” abuses

September 28, 2024 at 11:05 a.m.

The Archdiocese of Denver, in a statement, said it was 鈥渟hocked and saddened by the news of expulsions,鈥� which it attributed to 鈥渄ecades-old allegations in South America.鈥�

A statue of late Pope St. John Paul II is backdropped by the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, after The Vatican said Pope Francis has been taken there in the afternoon for some scheduled tests. The Vatican provided no details, including how long the 86-year-old pope would remain at Gemelli University Hospital, where he underwent surgery in 2021. But his audiences through Friday were canceled, raising questions about Francis’ participation during the Vatican’s Holy Week activities starting Sunday.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican: Pope improving since hospitalization with infection

March 30, 2023 at 5:31 a.m.

The Vatican says Pope Francis has rested well overnight and is “progressively improving” after being hospitalized with a respiratory infection. The 86-year-old pope had part of one lung removed as...

A phone sits on a paper sheet reading: “I believe in the human beings, today people judges you for the image that you have, they see only masks they don’t know even who you are” inside the Chicco community of L’Arche, an International charity that helps people with intellectual disabilities, in Ciampino, near Rome, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. The findings of expert reports commissioned by L’Arche itself reveal that their founder, Jean Vanier, perverted Catholic doctrine to justify his own sexual compulsions and abuse women and that the movement he created had at its core a secret, a mystical-sexual “sect” founded for the precise purpose of hiding the sect’s deviant activities from church authorities. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Shattered: Catholic community confronts its founder鈥檚 lies

March 28, 2023 at 5:54 a.m.

The two rounds of revelations about Jean Vanier and the L鈥橝rche federation he founded have rocked the Catholic group to its core.

FILE – Pope Francis, second from left, watches Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI enter St. Peter’s Basilica accompanied by Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, right, at the Vatican, on Dec. 8, 2015. Pope Benedict XVI’s 2013 resignation sparked calls for rules and regulations for future retired popes to avoid the kind of confusion that ensued. Benedict, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday Dec. 31, 2022. He was 95. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Benedict death paves way for protocols to guide future popes

January 1, 2023 at 12:15 p.m.

There was no tolling of the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica, no solemn announcement by a Vatican monsignor to the faithful in the square. A fisherman’s ring did not get...

FILE – Pope Benedict XVI smiles during a Mass in St. Peter’s Square celebrated by 15,000 white-robed priests, all marking the end of the Vatican’s Year of the Priest, on June 11, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI rarely got credit for having turned the Vatican around on clergy sexual abuse, but as cardinal and pope, he pushed through revolutionary changes to church law to make it easier to defrock predator priests. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)

While blamed, Benedict fought sex abuse more than past popes

January 1, 2023 at 12:16 p.m.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI rarely got credit for having turned the Vatican around on clergy sexual abuse, but as cardinal and pope, he pushed through revolutionary changes to church law...

FILE – Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful as he arrives in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican to bless the nativity scene on Dec. 31, 2011. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)

Pope Benedict XVI, first pope to retire in 600 years, dies at 95

December 31, 2022 at 12:57 p.m.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign has died. The Vatican says he died Saturday morning at age 95....

Pope Francis talks with faithful dressed as the Three Wise Men at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope warns Vatican staff an “elegant demon” lurks among them

December 22, 2022 at 7:09 a.m.

Pope Francis warned Vatican bureaucrats on Thursday to beware the devil that lurks among them, saying it is an “elegant demon” that works in people who have a rigid, holier-than-thou...

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