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A man with his wife and two of his brides walk, during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

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Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez delivers his speech during a mass on the sixth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 1, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, August 6, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in the town of Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

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