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  • Francis initiated changes within the Vatican, emphasizing transparency, accountability financial reform, appointed more women to senior posts in its hierarchy
  • Francis appointed nearly 80 percent of cardinal electors who will choose next pope, increasing possibility his successor will continue his progressive policies
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Vatican notes ‘exchange of opinions’ over migrants, prisoners in meeting with Vance

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Pope pays surprise visit to Rome prison

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Pope Francis thanks doctors who saved his life in meeting at Vatican

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Vatican: Pope Francis’s condition improving

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Pope Francis returns to Vatican after five weeks in hospital

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Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, doctors say

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Pope Francis advisers say he’ll recover from pneumonia and a ‘new stage’ is opening for him

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Pope Francis no longer using ventilation, confirmed as improving, Vatican says

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Pope Francis, showing plans to stay on, starts new Catholic reform process

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Pope marks month in hospital as footballers send messages

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Vatican says a chest X-ray confirms improvements in the pope’s condition

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Pope ‘stable’, out of imminent danger as talk turns to return home

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