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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Pope Leo XIV called for peace in Gaza, Myanmar, and Ukraine at his inauguration Mass on Sunday, May 18. Following his ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first ...

Cardinal Giuseppe Versaldi embraced him immediately after his election in the Sistine Chapel, and three days ago did the same ...

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In an exclusive BBC interview, the Polish foreign minister accuses Russia of recruiting agents and paying them for acts of ...

WE just witnessed two extraordinary elections. They had nothing to do with each other. One looked like the antithesis of the ...