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In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis kisses the hand of a Jewish men at the Hall of Remembrance on May 26, 2014, during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II, in Jerusalem Monday, May 26, 2014. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

Pope to meet sex abuse victims at Vatican

Nicole Winfield · May 27, 2014 3:45 am

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, left, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, shakes hand with Claudio Grossmann, right, Chairperson of UN Committee against Torture, prior the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2014. The UN Committee Against Torture hears the Holy See for the first time to consider whether the church's handling of child sexual abuse complaints has violated its obligations against subjecting minors to torture and to hear the Vatican on its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

UN panel slams Vatican on priest sex-abuse scandal

JOHN HEILPRINNICOLE WINFIELD · May 23, 2014 7:34 pm

Rene Bruelhart, director of the Financial Information Authority, meets the journalists at the Vatican. Monday, May 14, 2014. The Vatican has seen a spike in the number of suspicious financial transactions being reported as its troubled bank goes through its books to review accounts. The Vatican's financial watchdog agency released its annual report Monday. The report showed that there were 202 suspicious transactions reported to the Financial Information Authority in 2013 compared to only six a year earlier and just one in 2011. Five of those 202 were referred onto Vatican prosecutors for possible investigation. Authority Director Rene Bruelhart said the spike doesn't mean that more illicit activity is taking place. He said it just means that new laws and procedures are being implemented and are working to flag potentially problematic transactions that may require further investigation. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican says bank needs ‘corrective measures’

Nicole Winfield · May 19, 2014 3:04 pm

100 Israelis protest Vatican role at holy site

100 Israelis protest Vatican role at holy site

Washington Examiner · May 12, 2014 6:11 pm

FILE -- This file photo taken on June 21, 1963, shows Pope Paul VI portrayed after his election, with white Pontifical robe and pectoral cross. Pope Francis has approved a miracle credited to the intercession of Paul VI and set the date for the late pontiff's beatification for Oct. 19, the Vatican said Saturday. Francis had authorized the beatification, the last formal step before possible sainthood, a day earlier, the Vatican said. Paul VI, who reigned as pontiff from 1963-1978, made landmark progress in improving Catholics' relationship with other Christians. His papacy is also remembered by his decision, after years of study, to ban contraception for Catholics, in a 1968 encyclical, "Humanae Vitae" ("of human life"). (AP Photo/Luigi Felici)

Pope OKs miracle for Paul VI in sainthood process

Frances D'emilio · May 10, 2014 1:27 pm

Pope Francis delivers his speech during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Vatican calls on Israel to safeguard holy sites

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2014 7:44 pm

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, delivers his statement during the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 5, 2014. The UN Committee Against Torture hears the Holy See for the first time to consider whether the church's handling of child sexual abuse complaints has violated its obligations against subjecting minors to torture and to hear the Vatican on its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

At UN, Vatican sex abuse compared with torture

John Heilprin · May 5, 2014 8:25 pm

Pope Francis has stepped up efforts to clean up the church's sex scandal. AP Photo

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U.N. calls Vatican’s anti-abortion canon ‘psychological torture’ of women

Paul Bedard · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

Newt and Callista Gingrich were at Sunday's Vatican ceremony. CNN Photo

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At twin pope canonizations, Newt Gingrich calls Pope Francis a man of the people

Paul Bedard · April 28, 2014 4:00 am

Priests sing and dance in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Pilgrims and faithful are gathering in Rome to attend Sunday's ceremony at the Vatican where Pope Francis will elevate in a solemn ceremony John XXIII and John Paul II to sainthood. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Benedict to join in double sainthood ceremony

Frances D'emilio · April 26, 2014 9:22 pm

Francis deeply influenced by both saintly popes

Francis deeply influenced by both saintly popes

DANIELA PETROFFNICOLE WINFIELD · April 26, 2014 7:58 am

FILE - In this June 16, 1999 file photo Pope John Paul II waves from outside the basilica during his visit to Wadowice, Poland, the town where he was born and grew up. The basilica was his parish church, where he was baptized, served as an altar boy and stopped to pray on his way to school. A central point in Wadowice, the basilica has a chapel dedicated to John Paul with a reliquary containing a drop of his blood. (AP/Photo Rudi Blaha, File)

5 places in Poland associated with John Paul II

Monika Scislowska · April 26, 2014 7:54 am