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Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...
Those guys who landed at Plymouth Rock were a doomsday cult, says Jane Borden — and we've emulated them ever since ...
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Federal immigration agents were seen breaking an SUV’s window, throwing a man inside to the ground and handcuffing him on Sunday, Mother’s Day, after the man and his family left church in ...
Mexico has sued Google for adopting the name “Gulf of America” for users of Google Maps in the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said, making good on an earlier threat to take legal ...
Pope Leo XIV's French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging into archives and discovered that the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy or in ...
Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955. He is the first U.S. pope in the church's history, and is also a citizen of Peru, where he worked for many years. "His family was ...
His election is seen as a pivotal moment that could foster unity within the global Catholic Church and highlight the often-overlooked contributions of Black Catholics. Pope Leo XIV, originally from ...
The pope’s grandparents’ old home in New Orleans was later ... South and Central America, lead back to the church’s foundational roots in its mostly unacknowledged and unreconciled histories ...