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Traders anticipating increase in high-spending Americans are already working up Leo-themed beers and ice-creamsEven before the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel emitted its last puff of white smoke, signalling to the world that the Roman Catholic ch…
Interfaith group responds after books on Black, Jewish and LGBTQ+ history were burned and shared in racist videoA group of faith leaders in Ohio denounced a recent alleged hate crime in the state, in which a man burned books belonging to a public libra…
Church refuses White House directive, citing longstanding ‘commitment to racial justice and reconciliation’The Episcopal church’s migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refuge…
New pontiff also urges a ceasefire and humanitarian aid in Gaza and welcomes truce between India and PakistanPope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and pleaded for an end to global conflicts, which he likened to a “third world …
Group marches from New York City to Washington, carrying on a long tradition of Quaker activismA group of Quakers were marching more than 300 miles from New York City to Washington DC to demonstrate against the Trump administration’s crackdown on immig…
A fraught history of race and immigration connect the new pope with his homelandPope Leo XIV, who on Thursday was elected as the first-ever US-born leader of the Roman Catholic church, has a familial bloodline that reflects his homeland’s fraught relat…
POPE LEO XIV played at being a priest as a child and used the family’s ironing board as an altar, his brother has revealed.
Robert Prevost — as he was known before he became the f…
When six young women hired a room to discuss the war in Gaza, the gathering ended with 30 officers storming in to make arrestsWhen six young women gathered in central London to discuss the climate crisis and the war in Gaza, the setting could not have …
John Prevost says his brother is middle-of-the-road but shares Pope Francis’s concerns about Trump’s policyDespite the pronouncements of veteran Vatican-watchers, the rash of profiles and the raking over of old statements, very few people seem to know …
New leader says he wants a Catholic church that ‘illuminates the dark nights of this world’Pope Leo XIV’s first day – live updatesPope Leo XIV said he hoped to lead a Roman Catholic church “that illuminates the dark nights of this world” as he held his…