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  • 3 days ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Nirmala Carvalho |Christopher R. Altieri

    ROME – In a speech to members of the international media Monday, Pope Leo XIV called for a rhetoric of peace over words of anger or ideology, and issued an appeal for the freedom of journalist imprisoned for reporting the truth.

  • 4 days ago | cruxnow.com | Nirmala Carvalho |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Christopher R. Altieri

    MUMBAI, India – Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were important reasons he will make a good pontiff. Speaking to Crux, the cardinal gave is reflections on the election of American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a member of the Augustinian order, to the Chair of Peter on May 8. “Pope Leo XIV has a rich background in missionary work, especially in Peru, where he served both as a missionary and later as a bishop.

  • 5 days ago | cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Christopher R. Altieri |Andrew Dampf

    ROME – In his first Sunday Regina Coeli address during Easter, Pope Leo XIV gave pilgrims a surprise and sang the traditional Marian prayer, and prayed for increased vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life. Speaking to pilgrims from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo noted that his Sunday, May 11 address coincided with Good Shepherd Sunday, saying it was “a gift” that his service as pope began on that day.

  • 1 week ago | brownpelicanla.com | Christopher R. Altieri

    Coup de théâtre, as the French say, or colpo di scena in Italian, is an unexpected turn in a play or a film, often applied to real life when surprising developments unfold suddenly and to dramatic effect, making life imitate art. The recent movie, Conclave, went for one of these—and it’s tough to say whether it was trying too hard or a little too dans le nez, or perhaps, paradoxically, a little of both—and fell flat, if you ask me. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil it.

  • 1 week ago | catholicworldreport.com | Christopher R. Altieri |Joseph M. Hanneman

    Cardinals at the Vatican in May 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Coup de théâtre, as the French say, or colpo di scena in Italian, is an unexpected turn in a play or a film, often applied to real life when surprising developments unfold suddenly and to dramatic effect, making life imitate art. The recent movie, Conclave, went for one of these—and it’s tough to say whether it was trying too hard or a little too dans le nez, or perhaps, paradoxically, a little of both—and fell flat, if you ask me.

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Chris Altieri
Chris Altieri @craltieri
11 May 25

RT @ClaytonEmmer: On Crux, from @craltieri - Pope Leo XIV: What we know already (and what we can expect) https://t.co/K36n305m00

Chris Altieri
Chris Altieri @craltieri
11 May 25

RT @craltieri: Conventional wisdom had it that no one from the United States would be elected pope until the US entered political decline.…

Chris Altieri
Chris Altieri @craltieri
11 May 25

Conventional wisdom had it that no one from the United States would be elected pope until the US entered political decline. Would-be readers of the signs of the times will now wonder whether that homespun is gone or a prophecy fulfilled, or perhaps both. https://t.co/nwFQxszcSR