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6 days ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Christopher White |James V. Grimaldi |Soli Salgado
A Chicago-born Augustinian friar has been elected the first American pope in the history of the Roman Catholic church. Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, who heads the influential Vatican Dicastery for Bishops, walked out onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to the cheers of thousands of faithful gathering for the announcement at 7:15 p.m. Rome time today (April 8).
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |James V. Grimaldi |Christopher White |Soli Salgado
The first American pope! So many people thought holding a U.S. passport was an insuperable barrier to the election of Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, but the College of Cardinals thought differently. Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry as a priest and bishop in Peru, and in Rome as the general of the Augustinian order.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | James V. Grimaldi |Soli Salgado |Michael Sean Winters
The Roman Catholic Church is at a crossroads and today 133 men have a choice. Will they continue down a path blazed by the first Latin American pope toward a more inclusive, open, transparent church where lay men and women hold positions of authority in the church's administrative body? Or will they pull back from Pope Francis' initiative known as synodality? No contender has emerged as a front-runner as the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Camillo Barone |Christopher White |Soli Salgado
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. After their first vote, 133 cardinal-electors did not choose a successor to St. Francis.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Camillo Barone |Christopher White |Soli Salgado
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $164,401 from 839 supporters. We are 54.8% of the way to our goal! Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. After their first vote, 133 cardinal-electors did not choose a successor to St. Francis.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Soli Salgado |Camillo Barone |Christopher White
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! Miriam Duignan Wijngaards prays at an event supporting women's ordination at Rome’s Oratory of San Francesco Saverio del Caravita May 6, the evening before the conclave to elect a new pope begins.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Brian Roewe |Soli Salgado
Since the first Earth Day in 1970 and the birth of the modern environment movement, nearly every pope has turned attention toward matters of ecology — whether pollution, biodiversity loss, deforestation or climate change. Pope Paul VI warned humanity's exploitation of Earth's resources "risks provoking a veritable ecological catastrophe."Pope John Paul II stated "the ecological crisis is a moral issue" and warned of the long-term harms of burning fossil fuels.
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2 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Matthew Groves |Rhina Guidos |Soli Salgado
In 2015, someone gave me a copy of Laudato Si' and it changed my life. I was a junior at a public college, majoring in physics and religious studies, and I was the only Christian I knew who cared about climate change. The people at my Baptist church back home in rural Appalachia — where one grandfather was a preacher and the other worked in the coal mines and then an aluminum plant — loved and supported me, but they mostly thought climate change was overblown.
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2 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |Rhina Guidos |Soli Salgado |Christopher White
Cardinal Ángel Sixto Rossi, 66, archbishop of Cordoba, Argentina, right, watches the motorcade transporting the body of Pope Francis, a longtime friend, from St. Peter's Square to Santa Maria Maggiore, where he was laid to rest.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Rhina Guidos |Soli Salgado
They came from around the world to honor and pray for Pope Francis. From Spain to Rwanda, from Ecuador to the United States, upwards of half a million people packed St. Peter’s Square and lined the streets of Rome to say goodbye to the people’s pope. Gathering under brilliant blue skies and sunny weather, a crowd of more than 200,000 in Vatican City, plus another 300,000 lining the route to Francis’ burial site, gathered to say a final farewell to Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88.
