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Maine Governor Out of Hospital, But Details of Condition Are Scanty

Matthew McDonald

Governor Paul LePage returned to Blaine House, as Maine's governor's mansion is called, on Monday after being hospitalized Saturday night.

LePage is back in Augusta after going to the hospital in New Brunswick on Saturday night after experiencing what a staff member described as "discomfort." The governor was later transferred to a hospital in Bangor, Maine.

Bombshell Letter Attacking Pope Francis Over McCarrick Also Questions Cardinal O’Malley
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Bombshell Letter Attacking Pope Francis Over McCarrick Also Questions Cardinal O’Malley

Matthew McDonald

A bombshell letter calling out Pope Francis for his chummy association with a cardinal known to have sexually abused seminarians also questions Cardinal Sean O'Malley's denial that he knew anything about the now-disgraced churchman's past.

"Regarding Cardinal Sean O'Malley, I would simply say that his latest statements on the McCarrick case are disconcerting, and have totally obscured his transparency and credibility," Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former papal nuncio to the United States, wrote in a letter published Saturday night. Vigano called on Pope Francis and many other high-ranking bishops to resign.

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