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By Kate Quiñones
Before he was pope, he was a math major at a Catholic liberal arts university in Pennsylvania.
Pope Leo XIV is the 267th head of the Catholic Church. He’s also a class of ’77 alumnus of Villanova University, which is run by the Order of St. Augustine.
Pope Leo XIV
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV asked journalists to be peacemakers by shunning prejudice and anger in their reporting, and he called for the release of journalists imprisoned for their work.
Pope Leo XIV
By Cindy Wooden
ROME — While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of the U.S.-based cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected him said nationality was not a factor.
Pope Leo XIV
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV will officially inaugurate his papacy with Mass in St. Peter's Square May 18.
Pope Leo XIV
By Francesca Pollio Fenton
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV May 8 by the College of Cardinals as the 266th successor of St. Peter, making him the 267th pope and the first from the United States.
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By Mark Zimmermann
An estimated 600 to 700 people at the 22nd annual Asian and Pacific Island Catholics Marian Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington May 3, came from several different states and with family roots in many different countries, all united in faith for a single purpose.
Pope Leo XIV
By Justin McLellan
VATICAN CITY — Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the Catholic Church's "missionary outreach is most desperately needed," Pope Leo XIV said in his first homily as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
Pope Leo XIV
Upon the news that the Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has been elected as the 267th pope, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops offered the following statement May 8:
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