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World meets Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States
Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...
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The Latest: Robert Prevost of the United States is named Pope Leo XIV
Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...
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Thousands flock to Vatican for Pope Leo XIV's installation ceremony and first popemobile tour
Tens of thousands of people are streaming into St. Peter's Square for the formal installation service of history's first ...
Vance gifts Pope Leo XIV books, personalized Chicago Bears jersey at Vatican
Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, was part of a delegation meeting with the Pope. In addition to ...
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Pope Leo XIV’s link to Haiti is part of a broader American story of race, citizenship, and migration
Pope Leo XIV's genealogy can be traced back to Haiti, where his grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. His census records tell ...
Pope Leo XIV’s Inaugural Mass Draws World Leaders and Catholic Faithful
The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...
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Pope Francis drew inspiration from Latin American church and its martyrs – leaving a legacy for Pope Leo
Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...
Area parishes relishing new Pope Leo XIV who has local roots, but his ‘message is going to be universal’
The elevation of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to pope earlier this month has been a point of pride for Chicagoland ...