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“God cares for you, God loves you all, and evil will not prevail! We are all in God”

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“If you are a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, report it. We reject cover-ups and secrecy; that causes a lot of harm. We have to help people who have suffered due to wrongdoing.”

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Diocese of Tucson: Home | New Outlook - Pope Leo XIV urges sisters to foster vocations to religious life in United States

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ACI Africa: Pope Leo XIV: Child Migrants are Too Easily Ignored by Society

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Agencia Andina: Peru: Government officially declares Pope Leo XIV's visit of national interest

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HOLA: Pope Leo XIV hands Vatican financial control to a 36-year-old Liechtenstein Princess

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ksl.com: Teen receives birthday blessing from Pope Leo XIV in Rome

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EWTN News: Peruvian government declares Pope Leo XIV’s visit a matter of national interest

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OSV News: Pope Leo XIV offers prayers, financial assistance to disaster-stricken Colombia

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National Catholic Reporter: New Vatican City coins feature Pope Leo XIV's face

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EWTN News: Pope Leo XIV On Liturgy: Priests Must Remain Faithful to Mass Rubrics

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Global Sisters Report: Pope Leo XIV to LCWR sisters: 'The church needs you'

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OSV News: Vatican City mints new coins featuring face of Pope Leo XIV

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PR Newswire: POPE LEO XIV AND ANDREA BOCELLI JOIN TOGETHER IN A HISTORIC "CANTICLE OF PEACE" WITH THE SUPPORT OF BANVELCA

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Vatican News: Pope Leo XIV: 'The cry of displaced children rises to God'

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EWTN News: Pope Leo XIV Sends 100,000 euros to Church in Colombia to Aid Earthquake Victims

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Counterpunch: A Language of Moral Universals in Modern Times: Pope Leo XIV’s Political Discourse in a New Key

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EWTN News: A sign of peace at the ballpark: White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with ‘pope night’

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Agencia Andina: Foreign Minister: Pope Leo XIV to celebrate St. Toribio's canonization anniversary in Peru

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St. Louis Review -: Fans celebrate Pope Leo XIV with custom White Sox mitre-style hat giveaway - St. Louis Review -

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KOCO: Oklahoma teen receives birthday blessing from Pope Leo XIV in Rome

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outreach.faith: Pope Leo XIV, human dignity and LGBTQ Catholics in the Dominican Republic

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ZENIT - English: A letter from Pope Leo XIV has come to light in which he expressed his desire to remain in Peru for the rest of his life - ZENIT

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KOCO: 'Unbelievable experience': Pope Leo XIV wishes Oklahoma teen a happy birthday

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Quiver Quantitative: Press Release: María Elvira Salazar Meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican to Discuss Immigration and DIGNITY Act

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salazar.house.gov: CONGRESSWOMAN MARÍA ELVIRA SALAZAR SPEAKS WITH POPE LEO XIV AT THE VATICAN ABOUT IMMIGRATION, PRESENTS DIGNITY ACT

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The eve of the United States semiquincentennial

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Awarded Time 100 (2026).

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Public attention spiked: 26,193 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 7,386, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: US politics Formatting

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Leo appointed Montse Alvarado, the head of the American Catholic media conglomerate EWTN News, to lead the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication

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The Holy See publicly released Leo's planned itinerary for a visit to Spain from June 6–12, 2026

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The National Constitution Center announced Pope Leo XIV as the recipient of the 2026 Liberty Medal, which honors "men and women of courage and conviction who strive to secure the blessings of liberty for people around th

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The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a traditionalist community not in full communion with Rome, announced plans to consecrate four new bishops without papal approval, after its superior general, Davide Pagliarani, was un

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A species of pyralid moth, Pyralis papaleonei, was named in honor of Pope Leo XIV

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Confronted the second Écône consecrations which resulted in renewed excommunications and schism with the Society of St

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“s threats against Iranian civilization and infrastructure were”

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Leo signed an amendment to the 2023 law allowing women to become president of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State, removing a requirement that would-be officeholders must hold the rank of cardinal

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King Charles III appointed Leo an Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on the occasion of the King's state visit to the Holy See

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Leo presided over the canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati at a Mass in St Peter's Square

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Leo revived the papal practice of taking summer residence at the Castel Gandolfo, which Francis had discontinued

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Awarded Order of the Bath (2025).

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Awarded Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Saint John (2025).

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Leo nominated Joseph Lin Yuntuan as auxiliary bishop of Fuzhou, which was approved by Chinese authorities on June 11 as part of a 2018 agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Holy See under Pope Francis

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Leo XIV used the ferula of Pope Paul VI which is most commonly associated with Pope John Paul II, and frequently used by Francis

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The second day of the conclave, on the fourth ballot

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Prevost was appointed a Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Malta by its Grand Master Fra' John T

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Francis named Prevost Cardinal Bishop of Albano

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Praised the document and said that it was "even more relevant today", ten years after it was written

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“above all by investing in the family, founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman.”

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Career landmark: Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (2025–2025).

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Time magazine included Leo among the world's 100 most influential people in artificial Intelligence

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“a cornerstone of any just society, for it safeguards the moral space in which conscience may be formed and exercised”

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Leo denounced what he called a "pandemic of arms" after the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting

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Career landmark: Pope (2025).

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Career landmark: papal election.

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That no full penal canonical investigation had occurred, and an investigation by América Televisión concluded that the church's investigation had not been thorough

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“liturgy needs to be beautiful to help us, to strengthen us in our faith.”

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Francis created Prevost a cardinal with the rank of cardinal deacon and assigned the deaconry of Santa Monica degli Agostiniani

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Francis appointed Prevost prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, with the title Archbishop-Bishop emeritus of Chiclayo

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Career landmark: cardinalate creation.

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“communicate the beauty of the faith, the beauty and joy of knowing Jesus.”

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Pope Francis appointed him prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops in Rome, and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

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Career landmark: cardinal-deacon (2023–2025).

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By Catholic News Service whether his views from 2012 had changed, Prevost said that "many things have changed" and emphasized the church should be more open and welcoming though he cautioned that church doctrine has not

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“the Holy Spirit is [...] pushing us towards a renewal.”

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“very significant and long tradition of the church”

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Stated: "The deaths during the protests cause me great sadness and pain [

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Career landmark: Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops (2023–2025).

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Career landmark: President of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America (2023–2025).

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Alleged victims of abuse in 2007 by priests Ricardo Yesquén Paiva and Eleuterio Vásquez Gonzáles said the Diocese of Chiclayo failed to investigate their cases

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Sparking speculation about a new role in Chicago or Rome

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Career landmark: apostolic administrator (2020–2021).

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Prevost was appointed a member of the Congregation for the Clergy, and on April 15, 2020, he became apostolic administrator of Callao

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Career landmark: vice president (2018–2023).

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Criticized President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's decision to pardon Fujimori and called upon Fujimori "to personally apologize for some of the great injustices that were committed"

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While serving as a missionary and bishop of Chiclayo

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Career landmark: Roman Catholic Bishop of Chiclayo (2015–2023).

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Career landmark: Grand Chancellor (2015–2023).

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Pope Francis appointed Prevost as the apostolic administrator of Chiclayo and titular bishop of Sufar

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Career landmark: episcopal consecration in the Roman rite.

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Career landmark: titular bishop (2014–2015).

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Archbishop James Green, Apostolic Nuncio to Peru, proposed to Pope Francis that Prevost might be an option for bishop of the Diocese of Chiclayo in northern Peru

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Career landmark: apostolic administrator (2014–2015).

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“more important issues such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion that would all take priority before that particular issue.”

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Prevost criticized popular culture's sympathy for the "homosexual lifestyle" and same-sex families

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Visited Buenos Aires and met Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, for the first time

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Prevost served two consecutive, six-year terms until 2013

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Career landmark: Prior General of Order of Saint Augustine (2001–2013).

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Permitted James Ray, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, to reside at St

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Prevost was elected Prior Provincial of the Order of St

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“Trusting in the assistance of the almighty, I pledge to continue and strengthen the Church’s dialogue and cooperation with the Jewish people in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostea Aetate.”

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“A bishop must not be a little prince sitting in his kingdom.”

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Its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated four bishops without papal mandate, and the Vatican under Pope John Paul II excommunicated him and the newly consecrated bishops within days

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Studied at Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of Canon Law (1987).

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After defending his doctoral thesis, he was vocation director and missions director of the Augustinian Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel in Olympia Fields, Illinois, and worked with the faculty of the Augustinian No

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Serving as chancellor of the Territorial Prelature of Chulucanas, as well as an aide to bishop John McNabb

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Studied at Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Licentiate of Canon Law (1984).

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Followed by a Doctor of Canon Law (JCD) in 1987, both from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome

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Career landmark: priestly ordination in the Roman rite.

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Studied at Catholic Theological Union, Master of Divinity (1982).

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Prevost was ordained a deacon by Thomas Gumbleton at St

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Prevost entered the Order of Saint Augustine's novitiate in the Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel, residing for one year at Immaculate Conception Church in St

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Studied at Villanova University, Bachelor of Science (1977).

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Studied at St. Augustine Seminary High School (1973).

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Prevost was planning to attend Tolentine College, an Augustinian seminary in Olympia Fields, Illinois, but it closed that same year

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At Mercy Hospital in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, on the city's South Side

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Born 1955-09-14.

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Awarded Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre.

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Awarded Order of St. Sylvester.

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Awarded Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice.

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Awarded Order of Pius IX.

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Awarded Supreme Order of Christ.

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Won Order of the Golden Spur.

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Awarded Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

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Awarded Order of St. Gregory the Great.

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Career landmark: Participated in 2025 conclave (tournament / event).

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Career landmark: Participated in 2023 Papal Consistory (tournament / event).

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