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Vatican prosecutor may be biggest beneficiary of Pope’s hospitalization... John Allen From a news point of view on the Vatican beat, a pope being in the hospital is a bit like a blazing sun on a hot summer day – it shines so brightly that it tends to be blinding, and you have to squint to bring anything else into focus. Thus it was that during the nine days Pope Francis was in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital June 7-16, several other Vatican storylines were, to varying degrees, overshadowed. Pope Francis Makes First
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Is there a future for Archbishop Pierre’s synodality? Ed Condon Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, opened the public session of the bishops’ June meeting with an address on synodality. Two years after Pope Francis inaugurated the global process for the synod on synodality, Pierre told the USCCB in Orlando, “it may be we are still struggling to understand synodality.” While virtue can be expressed in words, it is a father’s virtuous deeds that create maps for children...