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The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...
Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...
Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...
Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...
Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.
Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...
Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...
The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...