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Tom Soufi Burridge reports from Rome — steps from the Vatican.
The Vatican press office is one of the world's most restricted media environments, controlling all official papal health updates. A Rome-based foreign correspondent's cultivated sourcing is critical to breaking stories like this one.
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Pope Leo XIV likely received care at Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic — nicknamed the 'Third Vatican' — which has treated popes since John Paul II. In Italy, a lobectomy can cost over €40,000 privately.
France stopped state funding of the Catholic Church in 1905!
France's landmark 1905 Law on the Separation of Church and State ended centuries of government funding for the Catholic Church. Before it, France was one of the Church's largest state financial backers in the world.
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