Peter Smith

2 days ago | post-gazette.com | Peter Smith

The Episcopal Church's migration service is refusing a directive from the federal government to help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status, citing the church's longstanding “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.”Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe announced the step Monday, shortly before 49 South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on a private charter plane and were greeted by a government delegation.

2 days ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Peter SMith |Peter Smith

PETER SMITH12 de mayo de 2025, 1:58 p.m.·4  min de lecturaEl servicio de migración de la Iglesia Episcopal está rechazando una directiva del gobierno federal para ayudar a reasentar a sudafricanos blancos a quienes se les ha concedido el estatus de refugiados, citando el “compromiso con la justicia racial y la reconciliación” de la iglesia.

6 days ago | post-gazette.com | Nicole Winfield |Franklin Briceno |Peter Smith |Elisabetta Povoledo

The Rev. Art Purcaro has known Cardinal Robert Prevost, now known to the world as Pope Leo XIV, for decades, spending time with him just last week in Rome. But when he saw his longtime friend walk onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday and announced as the newest head of the Roman Catholic Church, he was “perhaps more stunned than the world,” he told CNN. Rev.

6 days ago | es-us.noticias.yahoo.com | Peter SMith |Peter Smith

PETER SMITH8 de mayo de 2025, 3:09 p.m.·2  min de lecturaEl cardenal Robert Prevost, el primer papa de Estados Unidos en los 2.000 años de historia de la Iglesia Católica, anteriormente lideró una orden religiosa católica. Prevost, de 69 años, quien eligió el nombre de papa León XIV, fue anteriormente el prior general, o líder, de la Orden de San Agustín, que se formó en el siglo XIII como una comunidad de frailes "mendicantes" —dedicados a la pobreza, el servicio y la evangelización.

6 days ago | post-gazette.com | Peter Smith |Elisabetta Povoledo |Jason Horowitz

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ascended to become Pope Leo XIV — the first American pontiff. Prevost, 69, had to overcome the taboo against a U.S. pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the United States in the secular sphere.