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Pope Leo XIV’s unexpected New Orleans Creole background excites city’s large Catholic community
When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...
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'Providential': Black Catholics react to Pope Leo XIV, the Creole
Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...
Sunny Hostin changes tune on Pope Leo XIV after learning of Haitian roots, declares 'we have a Black pope'
The View" co-host Sunny Hostin expressed her excitement for Pope Leo XIV after discovering his maternal grandparents were ...
How Pope Leo XIV may lead church and navigate an increasingly vocal Catholic right in US
The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.
Local religious leaders laud Pope Leo XIV's 'spiritual gifts'
The leader of the Diocese of Palm Beach hailed the choice of American-born Pope Leo XIV as Pope Francis' successor.
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Pope Leo’s motto, coat of arms pay homage to St. Augustine
Pope Leo XIV's devotion to St. Augustine, his life and ministry as a member of the Augustinian order and his focus on the ...
Cardinals offer glimpses into path Pope Leo XIV will follow
With the world still wondering how the fledgling papacy of Leo XIV will take wing, cardinals and other clerics gave glimpses ...
Inside Villanova in the 1970s, when the future Pope Leo XIV arrived on campus
In the summer of 1973, the war was still raging in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal was unfolding in Washington, and protests ...