"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...

The ongoing attacks continue to raise serious concerns about religious persecution and government inaction in the West ...

But most of all — and, I hope, best of all — Pope Leo XIV is this: a Catholic schoolboy of a certain ... He was just Bobby way back when, and an altar boy at St. Mary of the Assumption Church ...

Yet, the liturgy maintains a certain solemnity: communion is taken kneeling at benches around the altar ... heir to the Catholic tradition but rooted in its African cultural soil.

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