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The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

“I want the continued elevation of the universal nature of the church ... free and enslaved, living in Europe and Africa in the 16th century,” she said. “Just as Black history is American ...

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Reverend Ajani K. Gibson, pastor of St. Peter Claver, a Catholic Church in the 7th Ward neighborhood where the grandparents of Pope Leo XIV lived, speaks with The Associated ...

Getty An 89-year-old man and his dog have died in a black bear attack in southwest Florida — the first of its kind confirmed fatal attack in the state's history. According to the Florida Fish ...

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This is the history ... Catholic Church. He is the pope who excommunicated Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, which ultimately once again splintered the faith. Print by Lucas ...

Meyer Chambers, director of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Black Catholic Choir ... the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the first born in the US. But turns out Chambers and the pontiff ...

“Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that builds ... order could handle a U.S.-born pope. Francis, history’s first Latin American pope, clearly had ...

Leo, who became the church's 267th pope ... Margaret Thompson, an associate professor of history at Syracuse University, called that a "powerful choice.'' “Leo XIII is considered the father ...