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All about the pope’s Black, Creole roots

Pope Leo XIV has been in the headlines this week as the latest target of President Donald Trump’s online criticism. According to CBS News, the president was triggered by a recent “60 Minutes” episode, ...
America Magazine

Interview: What Pope Leo’s apology for the church’s role in slavery means to Black Catholics

Former New York Times journalist Rachel L. Swarns, author of the bestseller "The 272 – The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church," speaks during a Feb. 1, 2024, ...
The New Yorker

The Pope’s First Anniversary Is Marked by More Sparring from the White House

On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II set out from Rome on an apostolic journey, as papal trips away from the Vatican are called. In the eight months since his election, the former Karol Wojtyła had ...
Afro

Pope prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

MUXIMA, Angola (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on April 19 recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an ...

The significance of Pope Leo’s decision to excommunicate the Society of Saint Pius X

Excommunication is not simply a relic of medieval Christianity — it remains an important instrument through which the ...
National Catholic Register

A Pope Who’s American — and Everything Else

Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Paul Kengor’s new book, American Pontiff: Pope Leo XIV and His Plan to Heal the Church. On the evening of May 8, 2025, Protodeacon Cardinal Dominique ...