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The Vatican launches a new campaign to boost donations from the faithful with an American-style publicity pitch, an effort Pope Leo promoted while marking a feast day Sunday.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope ...