One of his victims wrote in a victim impact statement provided to the court: “I trusted him. I thought he wanted me to be a better person.”
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Days after Pope Leo’s visit, riots erupt in Paris
Just days after Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic visit to France, scenes of unrest have replaced the atmosphere of unity and peace that marked the papal trip.
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Ahead of Pope Leo’s visit, archbishop warns of a ‘a wounded Argentina, a divided Argentina’
“An Argentina in crisis awaits the pope, with a great number of very poor brothers and sisters,” Archbishop García Cuerva said.
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Bishop Barron meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican
Bishop Robert E. Barron met Pope Leo XIV for a private audience at the Vatican Oct 1, describing his first extended, one-on-one conversation with a pope as covering “a lot of different topics.”
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New nuncio cautions German bishops against diverging from Rome
The new apostolic nuncio to Germany implicitly addressed the controversial Synodal Way, a three-year reform process led by the German bishops’ conference.
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Canadian bishops hear from Latin American archbishop about building a synodal church at annual plenary
The whole concept of synodality came from the Vatican to Canada, while in Latin America and the Caribbean it was an outgrowth of existing church culture, two bishops noted.
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Pope Leo meets with survivors of abuse in Lourdes
Pope Leo met with seven victims of sex abuse this evening in Lourdes, spending two hours with them in a meeting described by survivors as emotional.
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Pope speaks out against French assisted-dying and abortion laws in Lourdes visit
In visits with French bishops and workers in ministry in Lourdes today, Pope Leo offered words of encouragement and took aim at that nation’s legalization of medically-assisted dying and abortion.
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Cardinal Tagle encourages Catholics to adopt Fulton Sheen’s virtues as beatification nears
The grace of Sheen’s beatification comes with corresponding responsibility for Catholics in his home diocese of Peoria, Illinois, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle told Catholics there during Mass Sept. 22.
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Pope Leo XIV calls on Latin American bishops to lead from ground, not ‘behind a desk’
In a letter dated Sept. 8 and addressed to the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, the pope urged them to place the good of the faithful above all else.