Pope Francis’s Vatican: How the New Pontiff Is Shaking Things Up
The canonization of two recent pontiffs — John Paul II and John XXIII — is just the latest sign of how Pope Francis’s reformist impulses are changing the Catholic Church
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Silvio Berlusconi Convicted of Having Sex With Underage Prostitute. But Will He Go to Jail?
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Life After the Papacy: What Lies Ahead for the Pope Post-Abdication
Even as his resignation looms, many details of precedent and procedure remain unresolved — and that may cause problems in a church where the symbolic is often the same as the substantial