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Advocates press for accounting of sex-abuse cases in new pope’s past jurisdictions
Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...
Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV
Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...
Pope Leo XIV's prior social media posts include criticism of JD Vance, Trump admin's immigration policies
The world has a new pope, and for the first time ever, he is from the United States. While the relationship between the new head of the Vatican and his home country remain in its early days, Pope Leo ...
On social media, Pope Leo XIV has shared criticism of Trump and Vance over policies
Elected Thursday as the Catholic Church's first global leader to hail from the United States, Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics - a realm not entirely unknown ...