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In a New Book Narrated by Stephen Colbert, Pope Leo XIV Takes Aim at Neoliberalism, Hunger, and Revenge
Twelve years of homilies from the Augustinian prior general who became pope, out Tuesday from Penguin Random House — plus Father Joseph Farrell’s full…
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Pope Leo XIV Names Another Pro-LGBT Bishop to Lead New Jersey Diocese
Cardinal Tobin ordained him. Right-wing Church Militant attacked him. Now Michael Saporito, who hosted gay Catholics at his Maplewood parish, gets…
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Pope Leo XIV Does Tech Support and Tax Prep for His Brother in Suburban Chicago
John Prevost locked himself out of a new computer, propped his iPad on top of it, and called the Vatican. Then he told Italian TV what makes him…
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The Son of a Librarian: Pope Leo XIV Spends His 71st Birthday at the Vatican Library
Leo opened “AQVA,” a Vatican water exhibit, two weeks after MAGA Catholics mocked his water prayer. Plus seven rare photos of the pope, one from each…
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MAGA Attacks Pope Leo XIV After He Prays for the Dead of 9/11
The pope’s 25th-anniversary prayer drew nearly 600,000 views on X and a wall of fury led by white-nationalist podcaster Kevin DeAnna. MAGA keeps hoping…
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Conservatives Attack Pope Leo XIV’s Newest Black Bishop, Robert Boxie, for Calling Out Racism
Pope Leo made Robert Boxie the first African American bishop ordained in the U.S. in nearly a decade. Within hours, Calvin Robinson and a swarm of…
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How 9/11 Got Francis Elected Pope
Cardinal Egan left the 2001 Synod of Bishops to bury New York’s dead, and John Paul II gave his chair to Jorge Mario Bergoglio on the feast of St…
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Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, America Needs a 9/12 Generation
I am writing from a bench above lower Manhattan as dusk turns to night, and I have never heard New York this quiet. Here is why I filled your inbox all…
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“They Were Falling Into the Arms of God” — A Catholic Defense of the 9/11 Jumpers
At least 200 people jumped from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, and America agreed to look away. A Church that hangs the crucifixion over…
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Ten Days After 9/11, Future American Pope Warned Against Seeking Revenge
Ten days after the towers fell, the new prior general preached at Santa Maria del Popolo that hatred grows where 24,000 people die of hunger every day…
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George W. Bush Defended Islam After 9/11. Catholics Should Too.
Six days after the towers fell, a Republican president walked into a Washington mosque and said “Islam is peace.” Twenty-five years later, Pope Leo XIV…
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Biden, Mamdani, and Hochul Join Archbishop Hicks’s 9/11 Mass After Trump and Vance Decline
The White House declined the invitation from Pope Leo XIV’s new archbishop of New York. I interviewed both Mamdani and Biden, who told me his health is…
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