Frances Demilio, Author at Valley News

FILE - In this Monday, April 18, 2005 file photo, U.S. Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick attends a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. On Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 the Vatican announced Pope Francis defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing Confession. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, files)

Former U.S. cardinal defrocked for sex abuse

by Frances Demilio Associated Press, Nicole Winfield Associated Press, and Trisha Thomas Associated PressFebruary 16, 2019

VATICAN CITY — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and defrocked, as calls rose on Saturday for Pope Francis to reveal what he knew about the once-powerful American prelate’s apparently decades-long…

FILE - In this June 1, 2016 file photo, visitors crowded in front of Leonardo da Vinci's painting 'Mona Lisa' at Musée du Louvre in Paris. Leonardo da Vinci is often hailed as the most universal genius. Not for Italy’s nationalist government, which is livid that the Louvre is counting on Italian museums to lend many of the native Italian native's masterpieces for a blockbuster exhibit in Paris. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

The Louvre Gets Leonardo, and Italy’s Not Happy

by Frances Demilio Associated PressNovember 24, 2018

CORRECTS THE PUBLISHED DATE OF THE GRAND JURY REPORT TO AUG. 14, NOT 15 - FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010 file photo, Pope Francis, left, talks with Papal Foundation Chairman Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washinghton, D.C., during a meeting with members of the Papal Foundation at the Vatican. On Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018, a Pennsylvania grand jury accused Cardinal Wuerl of helping to protect abusive priests when he was Pittsburgh's bishop. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Vatican Conveys ‘Shame, Sorrow’ Over Abuses

by Frances Demilio Associated PressAugust 16, 2018

A view of the Morandi highway bridge that collapsed in Genoa, northern Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 90 meters (nearly 300 feet) into a heap of rubble below. (Luca Zennaro/ANSA via AP)

Italy Hunts For Blame in Collapse

by Frances Demilio Associated Press, and Colleen Barry And Paolo Santalucia Associated PressAugust 16, 2018

A view of one of the buldings of “Le Vele di Scampia”, (the Sails of Scampia), a public housing project which for over a decate was the center for the Camorra Mafia syndicate's drug business and which has served as a backdrop for the hit movie and TV series "Gomorrah", in Naples, southern Italy, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. Whichever party can convert voters’ palpable anger in the south into support in Italy’s March 4 election could very well determine who governs Italy, a few dozen southern races, including in the Campania region embracing Naples, are critical. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Populism on Rise in Southern Italy

by Frances Demilio Associated PressFebruary 19, 2018

Warsaw residents taking part in the annual Epiphany procession in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Pope on Epiphany: Don’t Make Money, Career Whole Life

by Frances Demilio Associated PressJanuary 6, 2018

Pope Francis delivers his message during the Regina Coeli noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, May 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Names Several New Cardinals

by Frances Demilio Associated PressMay 21, 2017

Pope Francis addresses the crowd prior to delivering his Urbi et Orbi (to the city and to the world) message from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 16, 2017. On Christianity's most joyful day, Pope Francis lamented the horrors generated by war and hatred, delivering an Easter Sunday message that also decried the "latest vile" attack on civilians in Syria. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope’s Easter Address Decries Syrian Attack

by Frances Demilio Associated PressApril 16, 2017

FILE - In this Friday, June 26, 2015 file photo, Emma Morano sits in her apartment in Verbania, Italy. An Italian doctor says Saturday, April 15, 2017 Emma Morano, at 117 the world's oldest person, has died in her home in northern Italy. Dr. Carlo Bava told The Associated Press by telephone that Morano's caretaker called him to say the woman had passed away Saturday afternoon while sitting in an armchair in her home in Verbania, a town on Lake Maggiore. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Italy’s Emma Morano, the World’s Oldest Person, Dies at 117

by Frances Demilio Associated PressApril 16, 2017

FILE - In this May 3, 2014 file photo, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, right, and Marie Collins attend a press conference at the Vatican. Collins, an Irish woman who was sexually abused by clergy, has quit in frustration her post on a Vatican commission advising Pope Francis about how to fight abuse of minors, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Survivor Quits Pope Abuse Panel

by Frances Demilio Associated PressMarch 1, 2017