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There were 13 Pope Leos before. What’s so special about the name Leo for Popes?
In a time of global uncertainty, the Vatican has reached deep into its past to revive a historic name. Cardinal Robert Prevost, originally from Chicago, has been elected the new Pope, choosing the ...
National Catholic Reporter4h
Eastern church leaders welcome election of Pope Leo XIV
"May he help end wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and prevent conflict between India and Pakistan," Ecumenical Patriarch ...
The Catholic Leader14h
With jobs disappearing, cardinal says he ‘rejoiced’ at pope’s name choice
CARDINAL Michael Czerny said when Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV, “I rejoiced, I really ...
The Tablet19h
What’s in a name? The ambiguity of Pope Leo’s choice
What should we read into the fact that after being elected pope, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost chose the name Leo XIV?
Religion Dispatches21h
Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
During the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, where bishops, archbishops, and abbots convened in 1884 to, among other issues ...