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Pope Leo to maintain openness to LGBTQ, Jesuit advocate says

Pope Leo XIV and Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large at America, at the Vatican on Sept. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican News.)

Pope Leo to maintain openness to LGBTQ, Jesuit advocate says

Sep 2
Elise Ann Allen

A demonstrator throws a rock against police in Jakarta, Indonesia, Aug. 28, 2025. (AP Achmad Ibrahim/AP.)

Indonesian bishops blame ‘great disappointment’ in government for deadly protests

Sep 2
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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass May 11, 2025, at the altar near the tomb of St. Peter's in the grotto of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Father Alejandro Moral Anton, prior general of the Order of St. Augustine, was the principal concelebrant. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo stresses unity as Augustinians prepare to elect new leader

Sep 1
Elise Ann Allen

Leo XIV: Leveraging the Church’s ‘expertise in humanity’

Sep 1
Christopher R. Altieri

Pope Leo XIV blesses members of the St. Andrew School of Evangelization on August 29, 2025 (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo is showing his Augustinian roots when speaking politics

Aug 31
Christopher R. Altieri

Pope Leo XIV and Jesuit Father James Martin, editor-at-large at America, at the Vatican on Sept. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican News.)

Pope Leo to maintain openness to LGBTQ, Jesuit advocate says

Sep 2
Elise Ann Allen

New book finds strong reason for hope despite Church’s receding footprint

Aug 30
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In this undated photo provided by the Merkel family, Fletcher Merkel, who was killed in a school shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025, poses for a picture. (Credit: Merkel Family via AP.)

Parents of students killed in Minneapolis church shooting share emotional pleas

Aug 29
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Pope Leo XIV greets meets people outside the St. Thomas of Villanova Church in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Aug. 15, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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