There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

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Discover the significance of Pope Leo XIV's name, a powerful statement of tradition and openness to modernity, reflecting his ...

Forty years later, in February 1878, he was elected pope -- and took the name Leo XIII. In May 1891, he issued Rerum Novarum, ...

Few kings of France faced a more daunting prospect than Henri Bourbon in 1589. France was decades into the Wars of Religion, ...

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Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

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VATICAN CITY, — Robert Prevost, the new pope selected after Pope Francis' death, has chosen the name Leo, used by 13 popes ...