Pope Francis’s comments show that ‘he’s got a spirit that’s open to God’
Squatter activists have turned the land into a farm used by 75 families
The current vicar, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, is two years beyond retirement age
39 girls were killed and others injured in a blaze that began in a youth shelter after mattresses were set alight
Reports in Italy claim Francis will visit Cairo’s Al-Azhar, the leading centre of learning of Sunni Islam, in May
The trip will begin on September 6, the country’s president and nuncio have announced
Cardinal Vincent Nichols has congratulated Francis on the fourth anniversary of his election
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The Pope said we have to be attentive to ‘when the Holy Spirit demands something’
Reports of a ‘plot against the Pope’ are not wholly implausible
A Francis resignation seems unlikely – but then he is the ‘Pope of surprises’