Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse. He has appointed a French ...

Pope Leo XIV on July 3 appointed two prominent cardinals, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and ...

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Pope Sixtus V relocated it in 1586 to the center of St. Peter’s near the site where the first pope was crucified upside down.

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Gussie also viewed the reading as her chance to bid farewell to Francis, who she had met twice since she began work at the Vatican in 2024. "He was the first pope that I really followed.

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“The Catholic world view, and I think this was espoused by Pope Francis, beautifully, like all of our great popes, was not left or right, it was up. Connecting from us to God, from God down to us.

American Kielce Gussie, who works as a journalist at Vatican News, did the first reading in English -- several verses from the Acts of the Apostles -- at the funeral of Pope Francis.