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‘Leo will follow Francis.’ Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forest
For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...
Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people
Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s ...
Here’s the surprising effect Pope Francis’ death has had online
The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...
‘Leo will follow Francis’: Catholics in the Amazon hope new pope will protect the rainforest
Pope Leo XIV has hands-on experience of navigating the Amazon. Many Catholics have said they believe Prevost’s experience as ...
Pope Francis opened doors for women in the church. Will the next pope do the same? | Opinion
In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to ...
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Pope Leo XIV faces limits on changing the Catholic Church − but Francis made reforms that set the stage for larger changes
Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...
A pope of the Americas: What Francis meant to 2 continents
European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...
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'Leo will follow Francis.' Amazon Catholics hope the new pope will protect the rain forest
a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn’t preach though he was in his city ...
Pope Francis obituary: a pontiff who shook up the Catholic Church
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A pope of the Americas: What Francis meant to 2 continents
Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as ... lives of Native peoples from across the nine countries of the Amazon. During the papal Mass Francis celebrated in Chiapas ...
Pope Francis focused on climate change as the planet continued to get hotter
Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.
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Why the first Latin American pope couldn’t win back Latin America
“But Pope Francis, precisely because he was Latino ... An emblematic moment came in 2019, at the Amazon synod in Rome. One of its central questions was the plummeting numbers of Catholics ...