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Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...
Pope Leo XIV ordained 11 new priests for the Diocese of Rome during Saturday Mass, calling for priestly lives that are "transparent, visible, credible".
Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...
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People were doing double-takes over the weekend, not because of a papal decree, but because of a watch. During a recent Holy Mass, newly appointed Pope Leo XIV, formerly Chicago-born Cardinal Robert ...
The Archdiocese of Chicago has scheduled a Mass and a special program June 14 to celebrate the election and inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, and participants will get a video messag ...
St. Pio of Pietrelcina, known as Padre Pio, is seen in this undated photo that was part of a Vatican-hosted presentation of 10 new photos of the Capuchin saint on April 29, 2024. A habit worn by the ...
And he's called it a "scandal" to see young priests and seminarians going into the ecclesiastical tailor shops of Rome and "trying on cassocks and hats, or lacey albs". This is all part of Pope ...
Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...
To convey how all-encompassing the Roman Catholic Church was during the Middle Ages, the historian R.W. Southern once offered ...
Anthony Vazquez / Sun-Times Share A defrocked priest from the suburbs says the future Pope Leo XIV signed off on his move in 2000 to a Hyde Park monastery near a Catholic school after the priest ...
The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who was born in Chicago and just arrived in Rome to teach.