The Pope is Peruvian, and since Peru is a country so deprived of joys, don’t ask us to make the bitter distinctions typical of the meticulous biographer who uses that bleak and dreadful phrase that’s been repeated hundreds of times today: “naturalized …
POPE Leo XIV has been accused of "looking the other way" over sexual abuse claims against several Catholic priests he worked with. The historic first ever American Pope, whose real name is Robert Prevost, is already facing serious scrutiny by …
Senate President Francis Escudero joined the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics in welcoming and praying for the newly elected Pope, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has made history as the first American pontiff, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. Escudero …
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025.AFP
Leo XIV arrives to the papacy with controversy in tow. In recent months, and more explicitly in the hours leading up to the conclave, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been the subject of a campaign orchestrated by ultraconservative sectors of the Church …
Church bells echoed out as Catholics congregated in the Peruvian capital on Thursday to celebrate the election of American-born Pope Leo XIV, who left his mark after years of service in the Andean country. "He is a good man, even to those who are bad …
History was made on Thursday, 8 May 2025, when cardinals gathered in Rome for the conclave elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the first ever pope from the United States, with his papal name declared as Leo XIV. In brief remarks after stepping out onto the …
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