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As the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled, signaling the election of a new pope, American Catholics gathered in Rome expressed both surprise and hope for the future of the church. ...
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Peruvians were elated Thursday after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country and they see as one of their own was elected pope....
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Although the choice of the name "Leo" may have taken the world by surprise as the American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose his papal name on May 8, church historians familiar with the cardinal's career and the needs of the church were probably not surprised. ...
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“Look at all these people here, with so many different charisms, and we pray in different languages,” he said. “But we are all here to pray to God, to Jesus and to be united as Christians.”...
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Fr. Alejandro Moral, Prior General of the Augustinians and a long-time friend of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, tells Vatican News that the new Pope "immediately spoke of justice and peace and of bridges between all, of synodality."...
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Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful and the world invoking peace and pledging to work for a united Church faithful to Jesus and to the Gospel....
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Across the Parramatta Diocese, Catholics are rejoicing that the conclave has elected a new Pope – Cardinal Prevost OSA to be the 267th Successor to Peter, as Pope Leo XIV. But none more so than our local Augustinian community. Fr David Austin OSA, Assistant Priest of St Clair, former Provincial...
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"Peace be with all of you!" - the first words of Pope Leo XIV. The Conclave has elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the 267th Bishop of Rome. The new pope was announced to the waiting crowds by Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti....
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Tomas Halik identifies faith lived, as opposed to professed faith, as the essential ingredient and defining criteria for knowing what is worth holding on to, what must be jettisoned and what new forms must be embraced, as Christianity moves beyond its current manifestation. And at this time in human...