MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...

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In choosing his motto and coat of arms, Leo references the Order of St. Augustine, to which he belongs. He uses the ...

A few months after the Israel-Hamas War began, I was sitting on the train from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. A man, trying to get ...

There is something about places of worship that lifts us into something much bigger than ourselves and inspires us to look ...

Eastern Christian communities erupted in celebration at the election of the new pontiff on May 8, but many wondered about ...

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David found a deep connection between the Philippines and Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born Cardinal ...

Each sequence is cleverly planned and staged, but timing is everything, and the rhythm and cadence of the edit is perfectly ...

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The celebration marking the official beginning of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate on May 18 is a solemn liturgy. The rite ...