The Pope is Peruvian, and since Peru is a country so deprived of joys, don’t ask us to make the bitter distinctions typical of the meticulous biographer who uses that bleak and dreadful phrase that’s been repeated hundreds of times today: “naturalized …
POPE Leo XIV has been accused of "looking the other way" over sexual abuse claims against several Catholic priests he worked with. The historic first ever American Pope, whose real name is Robert Prevost, is already facing serious scrutiny by …
Senate President Francis Escudero joined the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics in welcoming and praying for the newly elected Pope, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has made history as the first American pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. Escudero …
Leo XIV arrives to the papacy with controversy in tow. In recent months, and more explicitly in the hours leading up to the conclave, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been the subject of a campaign orchestrated by ultraconservative sectors of the Church …
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.AFP
Church bells echoed out as Catholics congregated in the Peruvian capital on Thursday to celebrate the election of American-born Pope Leo XIV, who left his mark after years of service in the Andean country. "He is a good man, even to those who are bad …
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Robert Prevost, the choice of the world’s Catholic cardinals to serve as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church, is the first pope from the United States and a relative unknown on the global stage. Aged 69 and originally from …
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