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 ...
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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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Who Will Be the Next Pope? Here Are Some Possible Candidates to Succeed Francis.
Guesses about who will be the next Roman Catholic pope often prove inaccurate. Before the selection of Pope Francis in ...
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Pope Francis’ Life in Photos
The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and first Jesuit to serve as the Roman Catholic Church’s pontiff, ...
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Catholics Pray for Ailing Pope Francis at Sunday Mass
Roman Catholics worldwide prayed for Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition, at Mass on Sunday after the Vatican ...
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