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Every papal diplomat around the world must let people know that the Catholic Church is always on the side of the marginalized and is ready to face everything “out of love,” Pope Leo XIV said.

As a Chicago-born math major, canon lawyer and two-time superior of his global Augustinian religious order, the 69-year-old pope presumably can read a balance sheet and make sense of the Vatican’s complicated finances, which have long been mired in scandal.

Vatican News has begun removing artwork by Father Marko Rupnik from its website.

Pope Leo told his ecumenical audience: “By celebrating together this Nicene faith and by proclaiming it together, we will also advance towards the restoration of full communion among us.”

Although no major curial appointments or announcements have been made, one person who had a chance to know then-Cardinal Robert F. Prevost during the Synod on Synodality said the new pope takes his time and listens before speaking or taking concrete action.