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The deep structural reform awaiting Leo XIV beneath the Becciu soap opera

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A St. Rita High School student prays in the school chapel where the new Pope Leo XIV, Chicago native Cardinal Robert Prevost, was a substitute teacher. Picture taken May 8, 2025, in Chicago. (Credit: Paul Beaty/AP.)

Catholic Chicagoans celebrate as native son Pope Leo XIV becomes first American pope

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The deep structural reform awaiting Leo XIV beneath the Becciu soap opera

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Vocal prayer is fragile; meditative prayer is at the center

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Catholic nun in Africa urges Church to address sexual abuse of women religious

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Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and others at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome, Italy, on May 30, 2025. (Credit: Religión Digital.)

Franciscans honor Bartholomew I, Leonardo Boff, and other for their care of our Common Home

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Pope Leo visits ecological site inspired by Francis’s ‘Laudato si”

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