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Pope Leo XIV graciously accepted a gifted Philadelphia Eagles hat as a delegation from the City of Brotherly Love met him at ...
Pope Leo XIV has surprised tens of thousands of young Catholics by showing up unexpectedly at a Holy Year welcome ceremony.
The surge in blessings reflects enthusiasm over the start of a new pontificate and highlights a traditional practice that ...
It came as a big surprise when Catholic cardinals picked an American to be the successor of Pope Francis back in early May. But as Leo XIV begins his papacy, he’s offered few — if any — real surprises ...
Pope Leo XIV has called for a renewed commitment to diplomacy to resolve conflicts. He made the appeal Wednesday as he marked ...
After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast majority of whom Francis appointed, will choose a candidate under ...
Pope Francis’ death will set in motion the Catholic Church’s elaborate and centuries-old procedure for electing a new pontiff Getty Images Sede vacante: The seat is vacant The church enters a ...
Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentinian who moved to liberalize the Roman Catholic Church, dramatically reorienting the papacy’s posture toward homosexuality and modestly ...
Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on the deeply influential 19th Anglican convert who remains a unif ...