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Pope meets with head of Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, who invites him to Kyiv
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his ...
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President Trump’s Keeping up appearances with Catholic Church faces test with new Pope from his own nation
Pope Leo XIV greets the public for the first time from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica. Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via I was reading an article written by Mark Jenkins that states, “Analysis of the ...
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Who Will Be the Next Pope? Here Are Some Possible Contenders.
Pope Francis had long urged the Catholic Church to “go to the peripheries,” meaning communities in Africa and Asia, where the church also is the most vibrant. One persistent question has been ...
A new pope confronts his church’s abuse scandal amid praise and scrutiny
Even as Pope Leo XIV's profile as a humble champion of the disenfranchised takes shape, a looming question is how he will ...
Why Anthony Albanese’s presence at Pope Leo’s inauguration is shrewd politics
Showing up in Rome is pragmatic statecraft, executed under Bernini’s colonnade, where religious and political figures have ...
Vice President JD Vance, Marco Rubio to attend Pope Leo XIV’s first mass
Vance will travel this weekend to Vatican City where he will attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV, history’s first ...
How a working-class Chicago suburb and a tight-knit Catholic parish shaped the first American pope
In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...
Omaha native and Catholic cardinal shares insight on new pope, conclave
Omaha native Blase Cupich is back in the States after attending the conclave in Rome last week. He's one of the 251 cardinals ...