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The Pope got one Cubs fan good. During an appearance at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV, a diehard White Sox fan, spent a moment taking a witty jab at his team’s crosstown rival, as shown in a clip from ...

So much has been discussed in recent months about dress code on the occasion of the funeral of Pope Francis and the subsequent mass at the beginning of the pontificate. Dictating the line at the time ...

Pope Leo XIV blesses a chunk of ice from a glacier in Greenland during the opening session of an international conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on ...

(RNS) — In the past, Catholic social teaching was based on papal documents and appeals to the natural law. Scriptural passages would be sprinkled in like seasoning on a well-prepared meal, but ...

Publisher Bandai Namco and developer Media.Vision have released a four-minute anime “Prelude” to Digimon Story: Time Stranger. Set to the theme song “wherever you are”, the short focuses on Inori and ...

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 11, 2025. ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images He named himself after Pope Leo XIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, and was ...

He named himself after Pope Leo XIII, who led the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, and was known as “The Pope of the Workers,” making it his mission to confront the ruthless laissez-faire economics ...