World Catholics See the First American Pope as Hardly American
The surprising election of the first American pope felt fraught and disorienting to Roman Catholics around the world, who had ...
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Lay Catholics Expected to Retain Big Role in Pope Leo XIV’s Church
In the fall of 2024, the cardinal who is now Pope Leo XIV sat at a large round table inside ...
Read moreDetailsLive: Cardinals begin conclave to elect new Pope after Francis – The Economic Times Video todayheadline
Vatican Live: Pope Conclave May 7 — A conclave begins to elect the next Pope after Francis. 135 cardinals will ...
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How Francis Challenged and Embraced Africa’s Rising Catholic Population
When Pope Francis presided over a Mass that incorporated elements of Congolese tradition in St. Peter’s Basilica in 2019, it ...
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Gen Z’s Trump gender gap and Pope Francis’ simple tomb: Weekend Rundown
The split between men and women is one of the starkest divisions in American politics right now — and that ...
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From pilgrims to presidents, the world mourns Pope Francis
Outside the Basilica of St. Mary Major, a smaller venue where Pope Francis is to be laid to rest, a ...
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Southern California’s Catholic leaders reflect on Pope Francis
Three years ago, on the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy, I wrote a story describing the humble Jesuit-born Jorge ...
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Archbishop Gomez, you still have time. Follow Pope Francis’ example
Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez and the late Pope Francis assumed their positions two years apart. Both were pioneering ...
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The new leader of the Catholic Church will inherit a financial mess that Pope Francis spent much of his reign trying to fix todayheadline
Even on his deathbed, Pope Francis didn’t pause from pursuing a dogged campaign that distinguished his reign: reforming the Vatican’s ...
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Pope Francis’ funeral is set for Saturday.
Pope Francis’ funeral will be held Saturday in St. Peter’s Square, marking the beginning of a highly choreographed process to ...
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