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Listen to abuse victims, pope tells cardinals
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (293+ words) VATICAN CITY (AFP): Pope Leo XIV stressed the importance of listening to victims of clerical sex abuse during a meeting with cardinals from around the world this week, according to comments released Saturday. In a speech concluding the two-day, closed-door…...
In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza
2+ week, 6+ day ago (701+ words) VATICAN CITY (Reuters/AFP) : Pope Leo decried "conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the…...
Pope Leo’s message of interfaith dialogue and peace
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (827+ words) Yossi Mekelberg The first visit abroad by a new leader reveals quite a bit about their worldview, priorities and how they would like to be perceived by the international community and their own people. Even more so when they are…...
Pope Leo to wrap up Turkiye trip before heading to crises-stricken Lebanon
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (499+ words) ISTANBUL (AFP) : Pope Leo XIV wraps up a four-day trip to Turkiye Sunday after a warm welcome by its tiny Christian community, before heading to Lebanon with a message of peace for the crisis-mired nation. On his first overseas trip…...
Pope, Orthodox leader to jointly celebrate early Church milestone
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (595+ words) ISTANBUL (AFP) : Pope Leo XIV joins the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians Friday to celebrate 1,700 years since one of the early Church's most important gatherings, on the second day of his visit to Turkey. The American pope began his…...
Pope Leo urges leaders not to leave poor behind
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (291+ words) VATICAN CITY (AFP): Pope Leo XIV decried poverty on Sunday, urging world leaders and Catholics to reach out to marginalized people, as the Church celebrated a "Jubilee of the Poor." The US pope has made social justice a key theme…...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in the US
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (331+ words) The Chicago-born pope was responding Tuesday to a range of geopolitical questions from reporters outside the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, including what kind of spiritual rights migrants in US custody should have, US military attacks on suspected drug traffickers…...
Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 Beirut port blast in his first foreign trip
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (553+ words) The Vatican on Monday released the itinerary of Leo's Nov. 27-Dec. 2 trip. It includes several moments for history's first American pope to speak about interfaith and ecumenical relations, as well as the plight of Christians in the Middle East and…...
UK king to be first to pray with pope in five centuries
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (640+ words) LONDON (AFP): King Charles III leaves for a state visit to the Vatican Wednesday, where he will meet Pope Leo XIV and make history as the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with the pontiff since…...
King Charles III’s visit to Vatican marks a historic step in path of unity between two churches
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (412+ words) The Oct. 23 ecumenical prayer service, drawing on the shared concern for care of God's creation, marks the first time since the Reformation that the heads of the two Christian churches pray together. Buckingham Palace and Vatican officials on Friday announced…...