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AP correspondent recalls tense exchange with Pope Francis
April 25, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Nicole Winfield, the veteran Vatican correspondent for AP, offers her personal memories of Pope Francis, including a tense exchange about sex-abuse victims.
“He called me ‘la prima della classe‘ or ‘the first in the class.’ It wasn’t necessarily a compliment.”
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