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Vogue singled out the pope’s first public appearance after his election as the defining image of his papacy’s visual identity. Standing on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, Leo XIV wore a red satin mozzetta and a wine-colored stole embroidered in gold, completed by a pectoral cross suspended from a golden silk cord

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Address on the occasion of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, December 14, 2025

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Pope's Mass on the occasion of the Jubilee for the prison world

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Address of the Pope to participants in the Jubilee of Italian Diplomacy

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Overall, an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 Christians are still in Syria. Of those who remain, more than half are over the age of 50. The community’s age structure is inverted, with far fewer young people able or willing to stay

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The confessional, long considered a casualty of modernity, may thus be reemerging as a defining space for a Church that has learned to live as a minority—smaller, more urban, and more intentional than before

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A recent nationwide survey conducted by EWTN News in partnership with RealClear Opinion Research illustrates this tension with unusual clarity

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The ruling emerged from a case that began not in the nation’s highest tribunal, but at a routine government office in the northern city of Chihuahua

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Beyond the numbers, church leaders have paid close attention to what pilgrims bring with them interiorly. Mexico’s bishops have noted that petitions to the Virgin increasingly reflect anxieties about violence and insecurity, a concern that cuts across regions and social classes

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Overall, 52 percent of Catholic voters report a favorable view of Trump, with 37 percent holding an unfavorable one. Among white Catholics, approval rises to nearly 58 percent, while Latino Catholics remain closely divided

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