A new pope from the Americas, shaped by Peruvian missions and Roman canon law, signals a Church recalibrating for an era of ...

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Pope Leo XIV has been elected, becoming the new leader of the Catholic Church and successor to Pope Francis. He is the first US-born pope, and the second pope from the Americas. Just what sort of pope ...

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