Nicole Winfield

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General Secretary of the Synod Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri bows as he welcomes Pope Francis for the morning session of a two-week synod on family issues including contraception, pre-marital sex and divorce, at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. 200 cardinals and bishops from around the world have arrived in Rome for the meeting. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope seeks frank, fearless debate on family issues

Nicole Winfield · October 6, 2014 11:26 am

Pope Francis arrives for a vigil in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Pope Francis on Sunday opens a two-week meeting of bishops and cardinals from around the world aimed at making the church's teaching on family life, marriage, sex, contraception, divorce and homosexuality, relevant to today's Catholic families. The pre-synod debate has been dominated by mudslinging between liberals and conservatives over divorce and remarriage, but there are many more issues up for discussion. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Pope seeks ‘sincere, open’ debate on family issues

Nicole Winfield · October 4, 2014 6:03 pm

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, Cardinal Walter Kasper poses for the photographer after an interview with the Associated Press, in his home at the Vatican. The German theologian says he fully expected the knives would come out when, at Pope Francis' request, he made a suggestion that challenged a deep church taboo and has dominated debate ahead of a landmark meeting on Catholic family life that opens this weekend - the fate of Catholics who divorce, and the outcome will be a key test of how far Francis' reform agenda will go. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

5 things to know about the Vatican’s family synod

Nicole Winfield · October 4, 2014 12:55 pm

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, Cardinal Walter Kasper speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in his home at the Vatican. The German theologian says he fully expected the knives would come out when, at Pope Francis' request, he made a suggestion that challenged a deep church taboo and has dominated debate ahead of a landmark meeting on Catholic family life that opens this weekend - the fate of Catholics who divorce, and the outcome will be a key test of how far Francis' reform agenda will go. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope faces hopes, risks at family conference

Nicole Winfield · October 3, 2014 2:13 pm

Pope convenes Mideast envoys amid Islamic threat

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Pope convenes Mideast envoys amid Islamic threat

Nicole Winfield · October 2, 2014 2:50 pm

In this July 25, 2014 photo, Bishop Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano walks to church in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Livieres Plano, a member of the conservative Opus Dei movement, has been removed by Pope Francis from a Paraguayan diocese said the Vatican Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, after he clashed with his fellow bishops by opening his own seminary and promoting an Argentine priest accused of inappropriate sexual behavior. (AP Photo/ABC, Raul Gonzalez)

Pope removes divisive bishop in Paraguay

Nicole Winfield · September 25, 2014 10:31 pm

Participants into a course to learn how to transport and handle contagious patients use an 'Aircraft Transit Isolator' (ATI) to carry a colleague during a simulation at the military airport of Pratica di Mare, 30 kilometers south of Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. Italy's defense ministry staged the simulated medical evacuation of an Ebola patient Wednesday as part of a three-day training course for Italian military, Red Cross and health care workers. Some of them are on the front lines of Italy's Mare Nostrum rescue operation for thousands of African migrants who are arriving here every day in smugglers' boats. Officials and medical experts insist that the risk that Ebola might spread from Africa to Europe is small. They say Italy's first case of Ebola will most likely be from an Italian doctor or missionary who contracts it while caring for patients in Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea _ the three hardest-hit countries _ and is airlifted home. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Italy stages Ebola evacuation drill _ just in case

Nicole Winfield · September 24, 2014 8:32 pm

Vatican puts ex-Dominican envoy under house arrest

Nicole Winfield · September 23, 2014 7:40 pm

Vatican eyes ‘gradual’ talks with breakaway group

Vatican eyes ‘gradual’ talks with breakaway group

Nicole Winfield · September 23, 2014 2:58 pm

Cardinals debate marriage before crucial meeting

Cardinals debate marriage before crucial meeting

Nicole Winfield · September 18, 2014 10:33 pm

Pope Francis, top center beneath a baldachin, weds twenty couples in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Forty "I do's", or "Si" in Italian, were pronounced in St. Peter's Basilica Sunday as Pope Francis married 20 couples, with one bride already a mother. Francis in his homily likened families to the "bricks that build society." (AP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli, pool)

Pope to focus on grandparents after newlyweds

Nicole Winfield · September 16, 2014 12:11 pm

Italy activists denounce death of mother bear

Italy activists denounce death of mother bear

Nicole Winfield · September 11, 2014 3:42 pm