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At his final news conference before leaving the Diocese of San Diego, Cardinal Robert McElroy, the new Archbishop of Washington, D.C., prays for the Pope’s recovery and remembers his appeals on behalf of those suffering around the world.... -
When the Vatican daily bulletin arrived last week — making official what everyone expected — that on his 80th birthday, Francis was relieving Schönborn of his duties and allowing him to begin his retirement, I thought back to another scene from the very beginning of this papacy. ...