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Pope Leo to maintain openness to LGBTQ, Jesuit advocate says

Don Thompson | Crux

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

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

Sep 1
Christopher R. Altieri

Pope Leo XIV delivers his Angelus address over St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Aug. 31, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope demands end to the ‘pandemic of arms’ as he prays for victims of Minnesota school shooting

Aug 31
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

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

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

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