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Pope Leo XIV’s American citizenship: Can he keep it as pope?
Pope Leo XIV speaks to the College of Cardinals in Rome on Saturday, May 10, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, May 14, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). Catholics …
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Hopes for a new pontificate
Within a few hours of the election of Pope Leo XIV and his masterful presentation of himself to the Church and the world from the central loggia of the Vatican …
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Full text of 2012 CNS interview with future Pope Leo XIV on new evangelization
Then-Father Robert F. Prevost, who was the prior general of the Augustinians, attended the world Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization in 2012. Here are the full transcript and …
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New pope, who is a tennis fan, meets world’s No. 1 player
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The day after advancing to the semi-finals of the Italian Open, Jannik Sinner paid a visit to a fan. While in Rome for the tournament May …
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With jobs disappearing, cardinal says he ‘rejoiced’ at pope’s name choice
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Michael Czerny said that when Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV, “I rejoiced, I really rejoiced.” The new …
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Man of Three Worlds – “Leo XIV presented himself to the world, visibly moved, reading a text he had prepared full of cross-references, explaining who he is and some, at …
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Feast of Saint Matthias, Apostle
Reading I Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers and sisters (there was a group of about one hundred and twenty persons in the one …
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Pope pledges strengthened dialogue with Jewish community
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Among his first messages, Pope Leo XIV expressed his intention to strengthen the Catholic Church’s ties with the Jewish community. “Trusting in the assistance of the …
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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Reading I Acts 11:19-26 Those who had been scattered by the persecution that arose because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to no …
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Pope thanks media, urges them to be peacemakers
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the release of journalists imprisoned for …