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Why juicy Vatican secrets are getting harder to keep, even under Pope Francis

By Michelle Boorstein & Paul Farhi / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this story from Rome

Italian journalist Emiliano Fittipaldi suggested that his book was made possible by the desire for more expansive reforms. (AP)
Gossip and internal politicking are so much a part of Vatican life that an old Rome joke goes: “In the Church, a secret is something you only tell one person at a time.”

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At Vatican synod: outreach, pushback and struggles over soul of the church

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report

VATICAN CITY — At one point during a major summit of the Roman Catholic hierarchy that ends this weekend, a senior conservative bishop took the floor inside the Vatican’s assembly hall and promptly charged his liberal peers with doing the devil’s work.

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Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report.

VATICAN CITY — On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City. Pristinely dressed in the black robes and scarlet sash of the princes of the Roman Catholic Church, Wisconsin-born Cardinal Raymond Burke sat in his elaborately upholstered armchair and appeared to issue a warning to Pope Francis.

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