Nicole Winfield

@nwinfield

Associated Press correspondent based in Rome, covering Vatican, Italy

Joined June 2011

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  1. Retweeted
    2 hours ago

    A coughing Pope Francis told the faithful at St. Peter's Square that he has a cold and won't be able to attend a weeklong spiritual retreat in the countryside for Lent.

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  2. 5 hours ago

    To kiss or not to kiss? on social niceties in the time of

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    El papa cancela su agenda oficial por tercer día consecutivo mientras lucha contra un aparente resfriado. El pontífice, de 83 años, nunca había cancelado tantas audiencias oficiales o compromisos en sus siete años de papado

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  4. Retweeted
    Feb 24

    Police manned checkpoints around quarantined towns in Italy's north as authorities sought to contain cases of the new virus that have made Italy the focal point of the outbreak in Europe and fears of its cross-border spread.

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    Feb 23

    Italy is shutting down Venice's famed carnival events due to virus fears, as number of infected people in the country rises to at least 133.

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  6. Feb 23

    The L’Arche case, the sexual abuse of adults in spiritual direction and the loopholes in church law for lay leaders who abuse.

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  7. Retweeted
    Feb 22

    A papal-connected lay leader’s “manipulative sexual relationships and emotional abuse... and a psychological hold over the alleged victims” who were non-disabled adult women.

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  8. Feb 22

    Relevant for the cases in Italy, which have no common origin.

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  9. Retweeted
    Feb 17

    A trial promises more revelations about a disgraced religious order, the Legion of Christ, and the cardinal charged with cleaning it up.

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  10. Feb 17

    Here is the video accomanying our story on the Legion of Christ, about a coverup of sex abuse that included allegations of obstruction of justice, extortion, and extended from Milan to Mexico, the Vatican to Venezuela, and was known to the envoy running the order

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  11. Feb 17
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  12. Retweeted
    Feb 17

    The Vatican’s cardinal in charge “didn’t report the priest to police. And when he learned other[s] were apparently trying to impede the criminal investigation into his crimes, the pope’s delegate didn’t report that either.” Instead, a wiretap shows, the pope’s man “chuckled.”

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  13. Feb 17

    A case that calls into question the ’s reform of the Legion of Christ since the alleged crimes - attempted obstruction of justice and extortion of a sex abuse victim - occured just a few months before the Vatican ended its purification effort and declared the Legion cured

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  14. Retweeted
    Feb 16

    Despite the clergy sexual abuse scandal that has shaken the Catholic church's highest tiers and driven the faithful from the pews, the number of priests-in-training at seminaries in the U.S. has remained remarkably steady in recent years.

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  15. Retweeted
    Feb 15

    Sweet. seeing her as a victim of will also know that it runs its course — & when she emerges from the bunker, he and kids will be there. She will love him more than ever. And she will turn against her ex captor. Good husband.

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  16. Feb 15

    A look at what dodged: Father Josh, a married priest in a celibate world by

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  17. Feb 14

    The can change, after all! noticed a small but significant shift in Vatican communications

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  18. Feb 13

    Holy cow people. Read this, and the original report by

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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 12

    "a psychotic con man who has victimized every friend he’s ever had" “laid the groundwork for psychological conditioning that would eventually lead these young adults to become unwitting victims of sexual exploitation"

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  20. Feb 12

    Papal dodge: avoids question of married priests in Amazon document, pens instead love letter to Amazon and its indigenous

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