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Meet the 82-year-old progressive German cardinal who has an outsized influence on Pope Francis

By Michelle Boorstein & Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli in Rome contributed to this report.

German Cardinal Walter Kasper arrives at Clementina Hall to exchange Christmas greetings with Pope Francis in 2014 in Vatican City.  (Sipa USA)

In the coming weeks or months, Pope Francis is expected to come out with a significant teaching on how the Catholic Church should respond to the new shapes and challenges of the modern family. As he prepares the document, there may be few individuals as important in understanding the pope’s thinking as an 82-year-old German theologian named Cardinal Walter Kasper.

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Pope lectures Catholic elders at closing of synod on family

By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli in Vatican City contributed to this report.

VATICAN CITY —Pope Francis on Sunday appeared to lecture church elders at the closing of a landmark summit on the family here, suggesting they should not be quick to exclude a broad array of people deserving of God’s grace.

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