Speaking to reporters at the Vatican on Thursday, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Benedict had taken the criticism to heart.
The Vatican spokesman quickly distanced the Vatican from the remarks, which came on the day Christians mark the Crucifixion.
The correspondent, Greg Burke, 52, who has covered the Vatican for Fox since 2001, will leave the network to help improve and coordinate the Vatican's various communications operations, Mr. Burke and the Vatican spokesman said.
Vatican spokesman the Rev Federico Lombardi said the Vatican prosecutor met with Yana Zhdanova on Saturday and decided to order her freed.
On his Africa trip, the pope is not expected to revisit the Vatican's stance on condoms, according to the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, quickly distanced the Vatican from the remarks.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, denied that the Vatican had been trying to shield the ambassador, Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, by recalling him to Rome before Dominican prosecutors announced their investigation.
An estimated 800,000 people descended on Rome for the dual canonizations, a Vatican spokesman said, with 500,000 in and around the Vatican on Sunday and another 300,000 watching the event on giant TV screens set up around Rome.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, told reporters that under Vatican law, Benedict could pardon the two accused men at any time, but it was not clear whether he would do so.
During a recent interview in his office in Rome, Father Federico Lombardi, the chief Vatican spokesman, was briefly speechless at the idea that the Vatican should turn over its files on sexual abuse cases to law enforcement authorities in the United States and elsewhere, as advocates for victims have demanded.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the pope had called the Vatican ambassador in Buenos Aires on the night he was elected and told him of his wishes.
