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Pope Leo XIV to be formally installed on Sunday
The Catholic church on Sunday will inaugurate the first American and second Latin American pope.
The financial heavyweight, the media guru and the abuse investigator: What next for top Irish Vatican clerics under Pope Leo XIV?
Three Irish-born senior figures in the Roman Curia look set to remain in prominent roles under the new pontiff ...
Pope offers Vatican for peace negotiations
Pope Leo XIV has offered the Vatican as a location for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Angelina Jolie, the godmother ...
Pope Leo XIV affirms family is based on union between a man and a woman, unborn has inherent dignity
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” ...
The first American Pope not only loves baseball — he says he swings a pretty mean tennis racket
Pope Leo XIV gave an initial blessing to the idea of the Vatican Tennis Invitational, wryly adding, “Just don’t bring [Jannik ...
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 ...
Those who've worked with Pope Leo XIV are optimistic he'll elevate women's roles — with limits
Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ ...
Pope vows every effort to work for peace in regions where Christians persecuted, forced to flee
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...