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Kateryna Prokopenko, right, wife of Azov Regiment Commander Denys Prokopenko, and Yuliia Fedosiuk, both from Ukraine, talk with The Associated Press at the end of the weekly general audience where they met with Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Nicole Winfield)

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Wives of Mariupol defenders to pope: 'You are our last hope'
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Wed,05/11/22-8:16AM , 528 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The wives of two Ukrainian soldiers defending the Mariupol steel mill met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and begged him to intervene to arrange for a third-party evacuation of the troops before Russian soldiers capture or kill them.
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FILE — Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, who was held captive for nearly five years by al-Qaida-linked militants, listens to a question during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, in this Friday, Nov. 19, 2021 file photo. Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euro to free Narvaez, Cardinal Angelo Becciu testified at the Vatican's big financial fraud trial Thursday, May 5, 2022, revealing previously top secret negotiations that Francis authorized to hire a British security and intelligence firm to find the nun and pay for her liberation. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

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Cardinal: Pope OK'd spending 1M euros to free kidnapped nun
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Thu,05/05/22-12:31PM , 411 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali, a cardinal testified Thursday, revealing previously secret papal approval to hire a British security firm to find the nun and secure her freedom.
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FILE — In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 file photo, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, left, and Pope Francis talk during their meeting at the Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba. Pope Francis hasn’t made much of a diplomatic mark in Russia’s war in Ukraine as his appeals for an Orthodox Easter truce went unheeded and a planned meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church was canceled. (Adalberto Roque/Pool photo via AP)

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Pope's Ukraine diplomacy a political and spiritual tightrope
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Wed,05/04/22-1:19AM , 399 Reads
VATICAN CITY (AP) — His appeals for an Orthodox Easter truce in Ukraine went unheeded. His planned meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church was canceled. A proposed visit to Moscow? Nyet.
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Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz arrives for a meeting at the Vatican, Friday, March 8, 2013. A Vatican investigation into allegations that Dziwisz, the former top aide to St. John Paul II was negligent in handling sex abuse claims in his native Poland has cleared him of wrongdoing, the Vatican’s embassy in Poland said Friday, April 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

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Vatican clears aide to John Paul II of negligence claims
By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press
Fri,04/22/22-7:22AM , 460 Reads
ROME (AP) — A Vatican investigation into allegations that the former top aide to St. John Paul II was negligent in handling sex abuse claims in his native Poland has cleared him of wrongdoing, the Vatican’s embassy in Poland said Friday.
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