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src="/files/styles/home_slideshow/public/2025-02/Vatican_London_Trial_25052448984311%20%281%29.jpg?h=f7d9296c&itok=HPI3hPQP" width="960" height="600" alt="Aerial view of St. Peter's Square on cloudy day. " class="image-style-home-slideshow" /> </a> </div><h3 class="views-field views-field-title"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/uk-court-refuses-say-financier-acted-good-faith-vatican-deal-says-he-wasnt" hreflang="en">UK court refuses to say financier acted in 'good faith' in Vatican deal but says he wasn't dishonest</a></h3><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p>A British court on Friday largely backed the Vatican in refusing to declare that a London-based financier acted in "good faith" in his dealings over the Holy See's 350-million euro (US$375 million) investment in a London property.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper centered"><div class="item-list"><ul><li> <article data-history-node-id="152556" class="node node--type-author node--view-mode-byline-mode clearfix"> <div class="no-image"> </div> <div class="byline"> <a href="/authors/nicole-winfield" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Nicole Winfield</span> </a> </div> </article> </li><li> <article data-history-node-id="203284" class="node node--type-author node--view-mode-byline-mode clearfix"> <div class="no-image"> </div> <div class="byline"> <a href="/authors/associated-press-0" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Associated Press</span> </a> </div> </article> </li></ul></div></div></section> </div> <div class="attachment attachment-after"> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="three-other-stories view view-ncr-sections-landing-page view-id-ncr_sections_landing_page view-display-id-attachment_1 js-view-dom-id-823bcd8ec382e3e141bf2a0fd9e2f130934fc15c7d7f595f62b6c49626856ccc"> <div class="view-content"> <section class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/when-pope-sick-italians-always-gossip-about-who-comes-next-even-conclave" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/Vatican_Pope_Speculation_25051457719853%20%281%29.jpg?h=531cc43a&itok=aerYzPKe" width="560" height="350" alt="A man hangs a medallion from an elevated balcony." class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/when-pope-sick-italians-always-gossip-about-who-comes-next-even-conclave" hreflang="en">When the pope is sick, Italians always gossip about who comes next - even before 'Conclave'</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By </span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/nicole-winfield" hreflang="en">Nicole Winfield</a>, <a href="/authors/associated-press-0" hreflang="en">Associated Press</a></span></div></section> <section class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/pope-francis-battling-pneumonia-continues-improve-long-recovery-anticipated" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/20250219T1300-POPE-HEALTH-WEDNESDAY-1790271.JPG?h=9855f42d&itok=sBGIkyCb" width="560" height="350" alt=" Votive candles and flowers are seen at the base of a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome's Gemelli hospital Feb. 19, 2025, where Pope Francis is being treated for double pneumonia. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)" class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/pope-francis-battling-pneumonia-continues-improve-long-recovery-anticipated" hreflang="en">Pope Francis, battling pneumonia, continues to improve, but long recovery anticipated</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By </span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/christopher-white" hreflang="en">Christopher White</a></span></div></section> <section class="views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/catholics-worldwide-unite-prayer-popes-health" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/20250220T0500-WORLD-PRAYERS-POPE-1790242.jpg?h=f7d9296c&itok=CSky6MeQ" width="560" height="350" alt="Two young men shown with heads bowed, one with hand over heart, standing in pews." class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/catholics-worldwide-unite-prayer-popes-health" hreflang="en">Catholics worldwide unite in prayer for pope's health</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By </span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/junno-arocho-esteves" hreflang="en">Junno Arocho Esteves</a>, <a href="/authors/osv-news" hreflang="en">OSV News</a></span></div></section> </div> </div> </div> <div class="views-element-container"><div class="in-case-you-missed-it view view-ncr-sections-landing-page view-id-ncr_sections_landing_page view-display-id-attachment_3 js-view-dom-id-01b3ff24ca717a5c370bd712ada882e6a214d93c06146b20f46d1b0ed2342e06"> <div class="view-header"> <h4>IN CASE YOU MISSED IT</h4> </div> <div class="view-content"> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><h3 class="views-field views-field-title small"><a href="/vatican/francis-comic-strip/francis-comic-strip-rainbow-over-gemelli-hospital" hreflang="en">Francis, the comic strip: A rainbow over Gemelli Hospital</a></h3></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><h3 class="views-field views-field-title small"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-pope-francis-shows-slight-improvement-pneumonia-hospitalization" hreflang="en">Vatican: Pope Francis shows 'slight improvement' in pneumonia hospitalization</a></h3></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><h3 class="views-field views-field-title small"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/qa-lung-doctor-who-worked-hospital-now-treating-pope-francis-explains-his" hreflang="en">Q&A: Lung doctor who worked in the hospital now treating Pope Francis explains his illness</a></h3></section> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="constrained layout layout--onecol"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--content"> <div class="views-element-container block block-views block-views-blockncr-sections-landing-page-block-2"> <div><div class="timeline-headlines views-stacked with-images view view-ncr-sections-landing-page view-id-ncr_sections_landing_page view-display-id-block_2 js-view-dom-id-30734a3c25ee7607e1ee6c61e36a07fcd5cab0647d57ba39d5f8993e96123973"> <div class="view-header"> <h2>Timeline Headlines</h2> </div> <div class="view-content-wrapper"> <div class="view-content"> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/look-pope-francis-previous-hospitalizations-and-health-problems" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/Vatican_Pope_Health_25045429858638%20%281%29.jpg?h=f7d9296c&itok=4mVBqHIx" width="560" height="350" alt="Exterior of hospital building. " class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-created latest-news-date"><span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-18T15:10:37-05:00" class="datetime">Feb 18, 2025</time> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/look-pope-francis-previous-hospitalizations-and-health-problems" hreflang="en">A look at Pope Francis' previous hospitalizations and health problems</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p>Here's a look at Pope Francis' health history from a partial lung removal in 1957 to his entering the hospital on Feb. 14. </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By</span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/lauran-neergaard" hreflang="en">Lauran Neergaard</a>, <a href="/authors/nicole-winfield" hreflang="en">Nicole Winfield</a>, <a href="/authors/associated-press-0" hreflang="en">Associated Press</a></span></div></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-says-pope-francis-has-pneumonia-both-lungs" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/20250212T0615-POPE-AUDIENCE-JESUS-BIRTH-1789894.JPG?h=79abcd03&itok=71b1Zz2S" width="560" height="350" alt="Pope Francis coughs as Msgr. Pierluigi Giroli reads his catechesis during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Feb. 12, 2025. Seated next to the pope, Msgr. Leonardo Sapienza, an official of the Prefecture of the Papal Household, looks on. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)" class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-created latest-news-date"><span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-18T12:41:03-05:00" class="datetime">Feb 18, 2025</time> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-says-pope-francis-has-pneumonia-both-lungs" hreflang="en">Vatican says Pope Francis has pneumonia in both lungs</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p>Pope Francis has been diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs and his latest laboratory tests and chest X-rays continue to reveal a "complex" medical picture, according to a Feb. 18 Vatican statement. </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By</span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/christopher-white" hreflang="en">Christopher White</a></span></div></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-cardinal-heads-lebanon-express-popes-solidarity-prayers" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2024-01/20240124T1228-CARDINAL-CZERNY-BENIN-ECOLOGY-1771755.JPG?h=2f1b9eba&itok=9EkzFRgo" width="560" height="350" alt="Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, is greeted at the Saint Jean nonprofit health center in Cotonou, Benin, during his trip to the West African nation Jan. 17-20, 2024. During his visit to the health center Jan. 18, Cardinal Czerny met with the staff who provide much needed medical services for the people of the tiny African country neighboring Nigeria on the east, Togo and Burkina Faso on the west. (OSV News photo/courtesy Dicastery for Promoting Inte" class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-created latest-news-date"><span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-18T11:28:04-05:00" class="datetime">Feb 18, 2025</time> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-cardinal-heads-lebanon-express-popes-solidarity-prayers" hreflang="en">Vatican cardinal heads to Lebanon to express pope's solidarity, prayers</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p>One out of four people living in Lebanon is a refugee, and the majority of children born in refugee camps are unregistered at birth, said Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Czerny added that it is important to offer a "gesture of thanks and support to the Lebanese people who proportionately bear the greatest burden of any country in the world."</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By</span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/carol-glatz" hreflang="en">Carol Glatz</a>, <a href="/authors/catholic-news-service" hreflang="en">Catholic News Service</a></span></div></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/francis-comic-strip/francis-comic-strip-francis-hospital" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/fran%2C%20the%20silence%20panel%202.18.jpg?h=e319b3ad&itok=pzGp2cws" width="560" height="350" alt="Francis, the comic strip: With Francis in the hospital, Leo listens to the silence." class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/francis-comic" hreflang="en">Francis, the comic strip</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-created latest-news-date"><span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-18T04:00:00-05:00" class="datetime">Feb 18, 2025</time> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/francis-comic-strip/francis-comic-strip-francis-hospital" hreflang="en">Francis, the comic strip: Francis in the hospital</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p><strong>Francis, the comic strip:</strong> With Francis in the hospital, Leo listens to the silence.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By</span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/pat-marrin" hreflang="en">Pat Marrin</a></span></div></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/another-woman-takes-over-top-job-vatican-time-running-city-state" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/Vatican_Women_25046436558818.jpg?h=790be497&itok=g_J7P5l5" width="560" height="350" alt="Sr. Petrini smiles at the Pope who is shown from behind shaking her hand." class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-created latest-news-date"><span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-17T11:13:48-05:00" class="datetime">Feb 17, 2025</time> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/another-woman-takes-over-top-job-vatican-time-running-city-state" hreflang="en">Another woman takes over a top job at the Vatican, this time running the city state administration</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p>Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sr. Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially the governor of the 44-hectare territory in Rome that is home to the Catholic Church.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By</span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/nicole-winfield" hreflang="en">Nicole Winfield</a>, <a href="/authors/associated-press-0" hreflang="en">Associated Press</a></span></div></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-popes-complex-respiratory-infection-will-require-adequate" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/20250215T1300-POPE-HOSPITALIZED-BRONCHITIS-1790075.JPG?h=9855f42d&itok=SbaLLcn7" width="560" height="350" alt="Votive candles, including some bearing a photo of Pope Francis, are seen on the base of a statue of St. John Paul II outside Rome's Gemelli hospital Feb. 15, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)" class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-created latest-news-date"><span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-17T07:20:21-05:00" class="datetime">Feb 17, 2025</time> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-popes-complex-respiratory-infection-will-require-adequate" hreflang="en">Vatican: Pope's 'complex' respiratory infection 'will require adequate hospitalization' </a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p> Pope Francis' treatment for a respiratory tract infection "will require adequate hospitalization" to address what the Vatican is now describing as a "complex clinical picture." </p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span class="views-label views-label-field-byline">By</span><span class="field-content byline"><a href="/authors/christopher-white" hreflang="en">Christopher White</a></span></div></section> <section class="stacked with-border views-row"><div class="views-field views-field-field-brick relative clearfix contains-floated-image"> <a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-pope-francis-hospital-respiratory-infection-improving" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/files/styles/homepage_features_medium/public/2025-02/20250209T0800-POPE-JUBILEE-MILITARY-POLICE-1789771.JPG?h=790be497&itok=cR3B_HKf" width="560" height="350" alt="Pope Francis waves to visitors from a car as he arrives in St. Peter鈥檚 Square to preside over Mass for the Jubilee of the Armed Services, Police and Security Personnel at the Vatican Feb. 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)" class="image-style-homepage-features-medium" /> </a> <div class="overlay-brick "><a href="/sections/vatican/news" hreflang="en">Vatican News</a></div></div><div class="views-field views-field-created latest-news-date"><span class="field-content"><time datetime="2025-02-15T12:21:04-05:00" class="datetime">Feb 15, 2025</time> </span></div><div class="views-field views-field-title"><h3 class="field-content"><a href="/vatican/vatican-news/vatican-pope-francis-hospital-respiratory-infection-improving" hreflang="en">Vatican: Pope Francis, in hospital for respiratory infection, is improving</a></h3></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-article-teaser"><div class="field-content"><p>Pope Francis is continuing his treatment for a respiratory infection at Rome's Gemelli Hospital but his condition is improving, according to a Feb. 15 update from the Vatican press office.</p> </div></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-byline byline-wrapper"><span 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