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On Monday the northern Italian Bishops’ Conference of Emilia-Romagna elected Archbishop Giacomo Morandi, a former high-level Vatican official seen as being at odds with Pope Francis, to take over for a key papal ally as its new president.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, the president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, traveled to the northeastern Italian city of Argenta to preach the homily at the Mass for the 100th anniversary of the death of Father Giovanni Minzoni.
During the Italian bishops' general assembly, Pope Francis met with bishops whose dioceses in the region of Emilia-Romagna have been devastated after intense rainfall triggered floods and landslides.
Two decades after the U.S. Catholic Church finally began to confront priest abuse of minors, and many other countries followed suit, Italian bishops who live with the Vatican in their midst are reluctant to break the church's vow of silence and answer to victims.