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The Lateran Treaty signed by Mussolini and the papacy acknowledged papal sovereignty over the Vatican City, making the state a neutral territory and the pope politically independent.
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Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
In one fictional storyline, one of the cardinals sabotages a competing cardinal up for the papacy by purposely placing a nun there who had a secret child with him.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Despite calls for greater leadership opportunities for women within the Catholic Church during last year’s synod, a summit among Catholic leaders, women are still ineligible to be ordained as priests and therefore are also ineligible for the papacy.
—Solcyré Burga, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Less than nine months after his elevation to the papacy, Time magazine named Francis its Person of the Year.
—Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Gabriele Regalbuto, FOXNews.com, 26 Apr. 2025
In one fictional storyline, one of the cardinals sabotages a competing cardinal up for the papacy by purposely placing a nun there who had a secret child with him.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Despite calls for greater leadership opportunities for women within the Catholic Church during last year’s synod, a summit among Catholic leaders, women are still ineligible to be ordained as priests and therefore are also ineligible for the papacy.
—Solcyré Burga, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Less than nine months after his elevation to the papacy, Time magazine named Francis its Person of the Year.
—Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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