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May 11, 2025 at 4:44 am

From the left and right, US Catholics hope new pope fulfills their hopes

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV’s homeland,...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV concelebrates Mass with the College of Cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican the day after his election as 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, Friday, May 9, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP) XDS119 XDS119

May 9, 2025 at 10:14 am

A 2012 video shows comments from new pope that disappoint LGBTQ activists

Pope Leo XIV in 2012 made comments critical of what he called the “homosexual lifestyle.”

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May 6, 2025 at 5:03 am

These are the US cardinals who will vote for the next pope VIEW

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope.

April 23, 2025 at 9:12 pm

Pope Francis sought to make LGBTQ+ people more welcome, but church doctrine didn’t change much VIEW

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he had inherited.

April 22, 2025 at 3:05 am

Anti-Defamation League says anger at Israel is now the driving force behind antisemitism in the US VIEW

The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year.

April 9, 2025 at 5:01 am

Passover begins soon. For many Jews, the celebrations will occur amid anxieties and divisions

Passover celebrations this year will again occur amid anxieties and divisions among many Jews related to the unresolved Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza and the specter...

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FILE – In this Nov. 14, 2011, file photo, then Cardinal Theodore McCarrick prays during the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall assembly in Baltimore. A lawyer says the key accuser in the sex abuse case against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has met with New York City prosecutors, evidence that the scandal that has convulsed the papacy is now part of the broader U.S. law enforcement investigation into sex abuse and cover-up in the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) LBJ136

April 4, 2025 at 1:16 pm

Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94 VIEW

Disgraced former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died.

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April 2, 2025 at 11:48 am

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