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Pope meets with 6 clergy abuse survivors in Spain, hopes to improve response
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (847+ words) Posted today at 9: 19am The meeting, which followed in the tradition of popes meeting with abuse survivors during their foreign trips, lasted about an hour and took place at the Vatican embassy in Madrid, the Vatican said in a statement. Spain's…...
Pope Leo to meet Catholic abuse survivors on Spain trip, Vatican says
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (195+ words) Posted today at 1: 19pm VATICAN CITY, June 5 (Reuters) " Pope Leo will meet with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his week-long visit to Spain, the Vatican said on Friday. Further information will only be provided after the meeting, a…...
Pope Leo to issue first major work, addressing AI, on May 25
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (167+ words) Posted today at 4: 54am VATICAN CITY, May 18 (Reuters) " Pope Leo will release his first in-depth document, expected to address the rise of artificial intelligence and challenges to workers" rights, on May 25, the Vatican announced on Monday. The text, known as an…...
Pope to visit France in September with a stop at UNESCO
3+ week, 2+ day ago (289+ words) The Vatican confirmed Saturday the Sept. 25-28 trip, which will be Leo's fourth foreign voyage of the year: Leo made a day trip to Monaco in March, visited four African nations in April and is due to visit Spain and the…...
Pope decries the rise of AI-directed warfare, saying it leads to a spiral of annihilation
3+ week, 4+ day ago (448+ words) Posted today at 8: 19am Leo's speech at Rome's La Sapienza University marked the first time a pope has visited the campus since Pope Benedict XVI called off a planned speech there in 2008 in the face of protests from faculty and students....
Pope prays for end to "fratricidal hatred" as he celebrates anniversary with visit to Pompeii
1+ mon, 6+ hour ago (743+ words) Posted today at 4: 19am Leo traveled by helicopter to Pompeii, near Naples, for a daylong visit to mark the May 8 feast of Our Lady of Pompeii. The date marks the day in 1876, when the cornerstone for a shrine dedicated to the…...
Elaborately decorated skeletons in Catholic churches across Bavaria take some visitors by surprise
1+ mon, 12+ hour ago (718+ words) Posted today at 12: 19am The skeletons " known as Vincenzius, Valerius, Benedictus and Felix Benedictus " are the remains of so-called catacomb saints that were brought to the Benedictine monastery near the Bavarian town of Bad Staffelstein from Rome in the late 17th and…...
Pope Leo XIV sought a pastoral role in his first year, but verbal sparring with Trump intervened
1+ mon, 12+ hour ago (1282+ words) Leo spent the eve of the 1-year mark meeting with U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had come to the Vatican on a fence-mending visit. Trump's repeated broadsides against history's first U. S. pope created an unprecedented back-and-forth on issues of the…...
Pope to visit Canary Islands, migrant entry point, on trip to Spain
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (476+ words) Posted today at 4: 32am VATICAN CITY, May 6 (Reuters) " Pope Leo will visit two of the Canary Islands, major entry points off Africa's western coast for desperate migrants braving dangerous Atlantic waters to get to Europe, as part of a tour of…...
Pope Leo XIV encourages wealthy US Catholics to keep donating
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (422+ words) Posted today at 6: 18am The Chicago-born Leo met with members of The Papal Foundation, a major funder of papal development projects in the developing world, in the Apostolic Palace at the end of their annual pilgrimage to Rome. In his remarks,…...