Nicole Winfield

@nwinfield

Associated Press correspondent based in Rome, covering Vatican, Italy

Joined June 2011
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    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

    Virus fears challenge long-cherished customs like cheek-kissing in European countries including Italy and France.
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    18 hours ago

    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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    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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    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.

    America's own report:
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  8. Feb 22

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

    In the coronavirus outbreak, it’s not the rising numbers that are worrying experts: It's that they can't trace where some disease clusters started.
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    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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    El patrón de encubrimiento de la Legión de Cristo Una madre lucha desde hace años para que se haga justicia porque su hijo de 12 años fue abusado por un sacerdote en Italia. El escándalo reveló el patrón de encubrimiento que va desde el a otros países, como México. /ft
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  11. Feb 17

    And now the Spanish version

    Legionarios de Cristo intentaron que una víctima de abuso sexual mintiera. Ahora irán a juicio. (from ) Por ⁦⁩ y ⁦⁩
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    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.”

    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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  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

    When a disgraced religious order offered 15,000 euros if a boy said he was not abused by a priest, his outraged mother refused to sign. Read the exclusive:
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    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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    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.

    "Who knows the secrets of the human heart?" This non-Valentine's Day, Day story may be more extreme than most, but it has never been more relevant to millions of American hearts, marriages & families.
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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

    La visita de produjo un cambio en la comunicación oficial del via
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  18. Feb 13

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

    And this is what it took to get the story of 's oil pollution
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    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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