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23 hours ago | 
cruxnow.com | Eduardo Lima |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – As Bolivia prepares for the upcoming August elections and relevant politicians confirm their will to run for president, the nation’s episcopate unprecedentedly decided to take an ostensible stance against the left-wing party that has been ruling for almost 20 years.
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5 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
ROME – Naturally enough, journalists covering the Vatican tend to seek out figures in the system from their own countries or language groups. French speakers seek out the French, Spanish speakers the Spaniards and Latin Americans, the Italians gravitate to their paesani, and, by the same logic, Americans are drawn to fellow Americans.
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5 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
In his first homily since his election on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV noted many people today view Jesus Christ as merely “a charismatic leader or superman.”“This is true not only among non-believers but also among many baptized Christians, who thus end up living, at this level, in a state of practical atheism,” he told in his Mass with the cardinals of the Church in the Sistine Chapel on Friday. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the new pope on Thursday.
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5 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | Ngala Killian Chimtom |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Catholic leaders across Africa are expressing excitement at the election of the first American as a pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected May 8 as Pope Leo XIV, an election that defies all prognostics as to who would be elected, which included the names of two cardinals from Africa.
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5 days ago | 
cruxnow.com | Eduardo Lima |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – Many people who worked with Pope Leo XIV when he was Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, couldn’t hold their tears when his election was announced on May 8. For them, it was not just a sign that God answered their prayers for a new pope who would follow Francis’s path, but also the confirmation that they had been guided by an extraordinary leader. “Since the moment he arrived, we noticed that he was a person touched by the Lord,” Father Carlos Samame told Crux.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | Eduardo Lima |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Nirmala Carvalho
SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A social explosion in Panama, where continuous protests against the government have been gathering more and more people over the past few weeks, has led the Church to publicly call for dialogue and peace, appointed as immediate conditions for potential solutions to emerge. Demonstrators all over the country have been demanding the revocation of a law that changes the pensions system, considered especially negative for the younger generations.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | Nirmala Carvalho |John Allen Jr |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
MUMBAI, India – A Catholic archbishop in India says the government “has demonstrated considerable restraint in selection of targets and method of execution” after a series of strikes against Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. The military attacks come two weeks after a deadly militant attack on tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir which left 26 people dead, and 17 others wounded.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | Eduardo Lima |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen
SÃO PAULO – Pope Francis’s death heavily impacted old-timer Liberation theologians, people who on several occasions had to struggle with the Church structure to make their voices be heard and suddenly, many decades later, saw a pontiff embody most of their school’s principles and practices.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | Elise Ann Allen |John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Eduardo Lima
ROME – In an open letter to the cardinals who will gather in the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday to elect the next pope, young people from around the world said they want a pope who is in touch with the needs of the world and allows them a voice in shaping the church’s future. “We stand at a crossroads. The death of Pope Francis does not mark the end of an era but serves as an invitation. An invitation to continue to hope.
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1 week ago | 
cruxnow.com | John Allen Jr |Charles Collins |Elise Ann Allen |Eduardo Lima
Each day between now and the May 7 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, John Allen is offering a profile of a different papabile, the Italian term for a man who could be pope. There’s no scientific way to identity these contenders; it’s mostly a matter of weighing reputations, positions held and influence wielded over the years.
