While there had been problems and complaints in the past, the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital was working resolve them, said Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state.
Rome: Pope Francis declines to renew expiring term of Vatican doctrinal chief Cardinal Gerhard Muller, replacing him with his deputy, Archbishop Luis Ladaria
NCR Today: "He should never have been allowed to hide out in the Vatican to avoid having to face those in his home country who needed answers," Collins said.
New archbishops from around the world received their palliums from the pope. The actual imposition of the pallium will take place in the archbishop's archdiocese.
Distinctly Catholic: The four cardinals with their five dubia are back. They requested an audience because they want to know why the pope never answered their questions.
Rome -- Cardinal Anders Arborelius tells NCR: "We have a College of Cardinals, but we could have a college of women who could give advice to the pope."
Consistory: Francis told prelates gathered for the creation of new cardinals that God calls them "to look at reality, not to let yourselves be distracted by other interests or prospects."
Pope Francis: Christians are called to detach themselves from power, reject violence and sacrifice themselves for God and others out of love.
The Catholic Church is not a "gerontocracy" ruled by old men, 80-year-old Pope Francis said; "we aren't old men, we are grandfathers."
Vatican City -- Dalla Torre told Francis he was particularly moved by the encounter and had been following his papacy closely.
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