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Pope removes legal privileges for Vatican cardinals, bishops

Vatican Pope Francis 25 Apr

Reuters Pope Francis ruled on Friday that bishops and cardinals who work in the Vatican will be judged by the same lay tribunal that hears other criminal cases and no longer by an elite panel of prelates. Francis issued a decree abrogating a provision in the Vatican’s civil criminal code whereby bishops and cardinals were […]