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Last Updated: May 09, 2025, 00:13 IST In 2023, then-Pope Francis brought Prevost to Rome to lead the Vatican office responsible for selecting bishops globally, one of the Church’s most influential positions. Robert Prevost of the United States is named Pope Leo XIV. For the first time in its 2,000-year…

A king who has always described himself as a peacemaker, as he did during a 2020 speech in Davos, could not remain indifferent to the first words spoken by Pope Leo XIV from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica: "Peace be with all of you!" On Friday, from Buckingham Palace…

The new Pope Leo XIV Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, Gaza’s Christians and Hamas leadership are calling on the new Pope Leo XIV to continue the “peace efforts” of Pope Francis, according to Arab News. After the Vatican announced the election of a new pope, the President Abbas sent “best wishes…

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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic election as the first North American pope, meeting with the cardinals who chose him to lead the Catholic Church and follow in Pope Francis' social justice-minded footsteps.…

The world of sport is “a constellation of many stars,” Pope Francis told La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian daily sports newspaper, during a wide-ranging interview in January 2021. On April 21, 2025, that world lost, if not one of its brightest stars, then certainly one of its highest-placed advocates…

The Catholic Church has a new pope, and for the first time, he is an American. Pope Leo XIV was elected on Thursday, succeeding Pope Francis, who died in April. Leo, a 69-year-old native of Chicago, has held several roles in the Church, including serving as a bishop in Peru…

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of LoveWorld Incorporated has claimed — without proof — that the COVID-19 vaccine was responsible for the death of Pope Francis. In a video of a programme held on Thursday, which has since gone viral on YouTube, Oyakhilome alleged that the late Pope had aligned himself with…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass as the head of the Catholic Church. Leo spoke off-the-cuff in English in the Sistine Chapel to the cardinals…

Rather than collecting dust in a museum or being handed down to Pope Leo XIV or other future pontiff, Pope Francis' $500,000 Popemobile is set for a very different journey — one that honours the late Pope's enduring concern for the most vulnerable. The custom-built vehicle, which Francis used during…