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HomeWorld NewsAccepting Liberty Medal, Pope hails Declaration’s ‘lofty ideals,’ stresses right to life, religious freedom (CWN)

Accepting Liberty Medal, Pope hails Declaration’s ‘lofty ideals,’ stresses right to life, religious freedom (CWN)

July 4, 2026 World News

Pope Leo XIV accepted the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center and, in a July 3 video address (49:05), hailed the “lofty ideals enshrined at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence.”

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