“We must rebuild peace everywhere, not prepare for more wars,” Pope Leo XIV said in a video message to participants in the International Peace Meeting held in Assisi on Oct. 27.
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Pope Leo will travel to Latin America just weeks after cancer surgery
The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Leo XIV’s visit to three countries in Latin America—Uruguay, Argentina and Peru—scheduled for Nov. 6-17 “will proceed according to the programme previously published.”
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On Ukraine war: Pope Francis the prophetic disruptor, Pope Leo the institutional pragmatist
Pope Leo XIV has taken a much more calculated, institutional approach, one that reflects his status as a Vatican “insider” in contrast with Pope Francis, who never held a Vatican role before his election.
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Doctors advise Pope Leo not to travel by helicopter to Assisi for international peace meeting on Oct. 27
In a subsequent communique, the Vatican said Pope Leo would not attend the Assisi meeting on Oct. 27 marking the 40th anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Peace.
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Pope Leo needs no further cancer treatment, doctors say
Pope Leo XIV received good news today: The results of the much-awaited histological examination confirmed that “no further treatment is necessary.”
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Cardinal Czerny on sustainability, AIDS and AI
“Sustainability is not like a kind of a personal achievement. Sustainability is because we all pull in the same direction,” Cardinal Czerny said after receiving the inaugural Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal.
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Pope Leo in surprisingly good form at first general audience after cancer surgery
Pope Leo spoke with a strong voice and sang the Our Father in Latin at the end—a striking performance a mere eight days after he underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor from his right lung.
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Pope’s brother speaks about Leo’s cancer diagnosis and recovery in new interview
Louis Prevost said that although it was “panic city” when the family first found out that Leo might have cancer, “after the day of surgery, when they reported that they got it all, it was clean and pretty straightforward.”
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Pope Leo, five days after surgery, says he will resume his work ‘gradually’
On Sunday Pope Leo spoke publicly for the first time since undergoing surgery at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital
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Pope Leo discharged from hospital; surgeon sees ‘no clinical reasons’ to cancel trip to South America
Pope Leo XIV returned to the Vatican after being discharged from Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 17, four days after an operation for lung cancer. His surgeon, Dr. Stefano Margaritora, told Vatican News that there are “no clinical reasons” the pope should not make his planned trip to South America, Nov. 6 to […]