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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, Emma Morano sits in her home on the day of her 117th birthday in Verbania, Italy. An Italian doctor says Emma Morano, at 117 the world's oldest person, has died in her home in northern Italy. Dr. Carlo Bava told The Associated Press by telephone that Morano's caretaker called him to say the woman had passed away Saturday afternoon while sitting in an armchair in her home in Verbania, a town on Lake Maggiore. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

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Italian woman, world’s oldest person, dies at 117

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressApril 16, 2017

Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, right, and Marie Collins attend a press conference May 3, 2014, at the Vatican.

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Abuse survivor quits pope’s panel

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressMarch 1, 2017

5-Star Movement's Alessandro Di Battista attends a press conference in Rome, early Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, following Italian Premier's Matteo Renzi announcement he will resign Monday after losing in a constitutional referendum his government had proposed and that Renzi had staked his political future on. The 5-Star Movement had opposed the reforms proposed with the referendum. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP)

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Renzi on way out after referendum

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressDecember 5, 2016

A worshipper presents Pope Francis with a photomontage of an imagined meeting between the pope and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of a Mass on the occasion of the closing of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Pope extends mercy on abortion

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressNovember 21, 2016

Firefighters leave a house after retrieving personal belongings for its owner, in Pretare, near Arquata del Tronto, central Italy, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. With thousands left homeless after Wednesday's earthquake, authorities are debating how to provide warmer, sturdier housing for them besides the rows of emergency blue tents set up in the Apennine Mountains, where even summer nights can get chilly. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Italian government revises funeral plan to placate quake survivors

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressAugust 29, 2016

Firefighters work in Amatrice, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016. Bulldozers with huge claws pulled down dangerously overhanging ledges Sunday in Italy's quake-devastated town of Amatrice as investigators worked to figure out if negligence or fraud in building codes had added to the quake's high death toll. (Roberto Salomone/ANSA via AP)

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Italy probes possible role of negligence in quake toll

by Vanessa Gera Associated Press, Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Hakan Kaplan Associated PressAugust 28, 2016

Rescuers make their way through destroyed houses in Pescara Del Tronto, Italy, Thursday.

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Aftershocks rattle Italian quake zone

by Trisha Thomas Associated Press, Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Nicole Winfield Associated PressAugust 25, 2016

This still image taken from video shows rescuers recover a victim from a crumbled building in Amatrice, central Italy, where a 6.1 earthquake struck just after 3:30 a.m., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The quake was felt across a broad section of central Italy, including the capital Rome where people in homes in the historic center felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. (AP Photo)

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Earthquake in Italy kills at least 159, reduces towns to rubble

by Paolo Santalucia Associated Press, Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Nicole Winfield Associated PressAugust 24, 2016

Pope Francis, background, is framed by a barbed wire as he prays in front of the Memorial at the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. Pope Francis paid a somber visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler's forces killed more than 1 million people, most of them Jews. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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At Auschwitz, Pope reflects on cruelty

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Vanessa Gera Associated PressJuly 29, 2016

Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) message at the end of the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday.

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Pope recalls victims of ‘blind’ terrorism

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressMarch 27, 2016