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Lawyer Laura Sgro, left, listens to her client Pietro Orlandi, brother of Manuela, a 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee who disappeared in 1983, during a press conference on the establishing of a parliamentary investigative commission on Manuela Orlandi and other cold cases, in Rome, Dec. 20, 2022. The Vatican has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee, months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case and weeks after her family asked the Italian Parliament to take up the cause. On Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, Pietro Orlandi called the prosecutor's decision a “positive step” that the Vatican has apparently changed its mind, gotten over its resistance and now will go over the case from the start. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican reopens investigation into teen’s 1983 disappearance

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

People line up to enter Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican where late Pope Benedict XVI is being laid in state at The Vatican, Monday, Jan. 2, 2023. Benedict XVI, the German theologian who will be remembered as the first pope in 600 years to resign, has died, the Vatican announced Saturday. He was 95. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Tens of thousands view Benedict XVI’s body at Vatican

By Giada Zampano and Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope tightens oversight of Vatican-linked foundations

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis attends his general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The Vatican tribunal weighing a financial fraud case heard from an unusual witness Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022 when a secret recording of Pope Francis was played to the court about the Holy See’s payments to free a nun held hostage by al-Qaida linked militants. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican court hears secret recording of pope on hostage fees

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

President of the Metis community, Cassidy Caron, second left, and other delegates arrive to speak to the media in St. Peter's Square after their meeting with Pope Francis at The Vatican, March 28, 2022. Pope Francis’ trip to Canada, which begins Sunday July 24, 2022, to apologize for the horrors of church-run Indigenous residential schools marks a radical rethink of the Catholic Church’s missionary legacy in the Americas, spurred on by the first American pope and the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the school sites. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Pope’s Indigenous tour signals a rethink of mission legacy

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

A view of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Tuesday Nov. 10, 2020. The Vatican has said on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, that it was imposing a unified policy that prohibits investments in such things as pornography and weapons and prioritizes prudent investing in industries that are environmentally sensitive and produce for the common good. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Vatican imposes new investment policy amid financial scandal

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Pope Francis in a wheelchair delivers his address during an audience with members of the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) in the Paul VI Hall at The Vatican, Friday, May 13, 2022. Pope Francis suffers from strained ligaments in his right knee. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope to visit Canada to apologize for Indigenous abuses

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Nuns wave as Pope Francis delivers his blessing from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on June 7, 2020. Pope Francis on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 drew attention to a taboo problem that the Vatican has long ignored or downplayed: the abuses of power by mother superiors against nuns who, because of their vows of obedience, have little recourse but to obey. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope cites new book on nun abuse in warning to superiors

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this April 29, 2016, photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as he takes part in a congress on the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact, being held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) **FILE**

Vatican cancels live broadcast of Biden greeting pope

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, file photo, Cardinal Angelo Becciu talks to journalists during press conference in Rome. A trial is slated to begin on Tuesday, July 27, 2021, within the Vatican City’s imposing walls of 10 defendants, including once-powerful cardinal Becciu, in a case based on a sprawling probe into the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See’s portfolio of assets, including donations by countless Catholics from the pews. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Cardinal, 9 others on trial at Vatican in money scandals

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Pope Francis appears on a balcony of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, July 11, 2021, where he is recovering from intestinal surgery, for the traditional Sunday blessing and Angelus prayer. Pope Francis is 84 and had a part of his colon removed a week ago. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis to return to Vatican ‘as soon as possible,’ spokesman says

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, July 4, 2021, file photo, Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to recite the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. In a brief announcement Sunday afternoon the Vatican said Pope Francis has gone to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgery for a stenosis, or restriction, of the large intestine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican: Pope alert and well a day after intestinal surgery to remove half of his colon

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Australian Cardinal George Pell is interviewed by The Associated Press in his home at the Vatican, Thursday, May 20, 2021. Pell, who was convicted and then acquitted of sex abuse charges in his native Australia, is spending his newfound freedom in Rome. Pell strongly denied the charges and his supporters believe he was scapegoated for the Australian Catholic Churchs botched response to clergy sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A clear conscience helped Cardinal Pell endure solitary confinement before exoneration

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday May 16, 1998 filer, members of the papal Swiss Guard carry the coffin of Alois Estermann, newly appointed commander of the Swiss papal guards at the Vatican, out of the St. Stephan's church in Beromuenster, Switzerland. The Vatican secretary of state has intervened personally in one of the most sensational Vatican scandals of recent times: The 1998 murder of the Swiss Guard commander and his wife, purportedly by a disgruntled younger Swiss Guardsman who then took his own life. Cardinal Pietro Parolin asked the Vatican City State tribunal to pay “particular attention” to the request by the mother of the accused guardsman, Cedric Tornay, to have access to the court files of the investigation that was officially archived in 1999. (AP Photo/TEAM, File )

Vatican No. 2 intervenes to shed light on Swiss Guard deaths

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2019 file photo, Pope Francis listens to Cardinal Angelo Sodano, standing at left with back to camera, as he delivers his speech on the occasion of the pontiff's Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia, in the Clementine Hall at the Vatican. Pope Francis sent another chilling message to Vatican-based cardinals on Friday about his intent to hold them accountable for criminal misconduct, removing the legal obstacles that had prevented them from ever being prosecuted by the Vatican’s criminal tribunal. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, Pool)

Pope enables Vatican prosecutions of cardinals, bishops

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press