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More than a half-million people expected at Pope Leo XIV's Mass in Cameroon
17+ hour, 56+ min ago (472+ words) YAOUND, Cameroon " Pope Leo XIV neared the halfway point in his four-nation tour of Africa on Friday with a day focused on encouraging Cameroon's young people, first with a big Mass and then a visit to the country's Catholic university....
Pope Leo XIV: God 'does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war"
2+ week, 5+ day ago (817+ words) With the U. S. -Israeli war on Iran entering its second month and Russia's ongoing campaign in Ukraine, Leo dedicated his Palm Sunday homily to his insistence that God is the "king of peace" who rejects violence. "Brothers and sisters, this is…...
Spain begins Holy Week with processions, palm branches and familiar faces
2+ week, 5+ day ago (298+ words) After singing a hymn inside the church of Saint John, Banderas, dressed in a traditional penitent's robe in bright beige with dark green detailing, gave the order to set in motion the float on which the bearers carry the Virgin…...
Denver's Catholic archdiocese, famously conservative, enters the Leo era
3+ week, 1+ day ago (835+ words) (RNS) " When the helicopter delivering Pope John Paul II to a Catholic youth festival descended into Denver's Mile High Stadium 32 years ago, the crowd's roar, the pilot later told papal biographer George Weigel, created turbulence he hadn't experienced since being…...
Pope declares Cardinal Newman a church doctor and signals Catholic education is a priority
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (759+ words) Only 37 other people have been given the title "doctor" in the 2, 000-year history of the Catholic Church. Newman now joins the ranks of such monumental Christian figures as St. Augustine, St. Therese of Lisieux and St. John of the Cross....
Pope Leo XIV cautions priests against AI reliance in homilies, urges continuous study, community connection
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (307+ words) VATICAN CITY, " Pope Leo XIV urged priests not to fall into the "temptation" of using artificial intelligence to prepare their homilies during a conversation with the clergy of the Diocese of Rome on Thursday. The closed-door meeting, which the Vatican…...
Ronald Hicks to be installed as 11th archbishop of New York
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (322+ words) I'm going to talk just about being a church who's made up of missionary disciples who want to go out and make disciples, and also to pass our faith on to the next generations," he said. I'm going to talk…...
Pope Leo XIV remembers Gaza's suffering in first Christmas homily and calls for peace
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (544+ words) The first U. S. pontiff addressed some 26, 000 people from the loggia overlooking St. Peter's Square for the traditional papal "Urbi et Orbi'' address, Latin for "To the City and to the World,'' which serves as a summary of the woes facing the…...
Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (546+ words) The first U. S. pontiff addressed some 26, 000 people from the loggia overlooking St. Peter's Square for the traditional papal "Urbi et Orbi'' address, Latin for "To the City and to the World,'' which serves as a summary of the woes facing the…...
The Latest: Pope Leo XIV calls for Christian unity at site where Nicaean Creed was established
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1804+ words) Pope Leo XIV marks a high point of his his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian church leaders met 1, 700 years ago under the auspices of the Roman Emperor Constantine to host the…...