Although I had set out to answer the question, “Who is Pope Leo XIV?” the question I had succeeded in answering was “Who is Robert Prevost?”
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Who is Pope Leo? | The rapid rise of Cardinal Prevost
From priest to pope—will his missionary past define him as the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, or will Pope Leo become something entirely new?
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Who is Pope Leo? | The Peru Years: A dictator, terrorists and a missionary priest
Father Robert Prevost’s early years in Peru shaped his ministry and vision for the church—but few know the brutal reality he encountered there in the 1980s and 1990s.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Religion scholar Elaine Pagels asks the right questions—and gives the wrong answers
A Homily for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrance Klein
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Pope Leo: Vatican still ready to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine
Pope Leo XIV met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy today and reaffirmed the Vatican’s willingness to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
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The Sacred Gift of Summer Camp on Texas’s Guadalupe River
Over 20 years ago, I was a college student who didn’t want to return to an unstable home. So instead, I found a job as a lifeguard at a Christian summer camp in the Texas Hill Country.
Posted inFaith, The Word
A pressing question for today: Who am I?
July 13, 2025, the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The readings this Sunday demonstrate that love of God goes hand in hand with care for one’s neighbor.
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Pope Leo prays for conversion of those resisting climate action at new Mass
“We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a new formulary of the Mass “for the care of creation.”
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Do you trust enough to forgive?
A Reflection for Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Ashley McKinless
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Everyone is your brother
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane