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Leo XIV leads St Peter's Mass for the year's dead prelates
Seven cardinals and 136 bishops died between October 2025 and October 2026. The homily treats prayer for them as a celebration of life.
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Pope Leo XIV receives Bob Dylan and gives him a rosary
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The 4 November audience at the Apostolic Palace was a short greeting. Dylan gave the Pope his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One, and played Rome on 5 November.
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Pope Leo XIV receives Chile's president, José Antonio Kast
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Leo XIV urges a just peace and a scholars' network on the East
Meeting two French groups that help Eastern Christians, the pope asked their Rome symposium to make peace a subject of research.
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Leo XIV at audience: work is the heart of the economy
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Leo XIV to young people: true victory is giving yourself, not prevailing
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Pope Leo's cancer and a South America trip that is still on
What changes and what does not in a papacy under 18 months old, based on what the Vatican and the pope's doctors have made public.
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Tenerife's bishop to lead service for footballer Jesús de Miguel
Bishop Eloy Santiago will preside on Saturday 7 November at 18:00 in the Heliodoro stadium. CD Tenerife has opened the ceremony to fans.
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Pope Leo XIV has mailed in his ballot for the US midterms
The Holy See confirms the pope, a US citizen, has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago. The ballot is secret, and nothing in the statement says how he voted.
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Madrid's cardinal sets a procedure for new Catholic movements
Cardinal Cobo's pastoral letter asks for a written project, at least two years on trial and consultation with the parish; no reaction from movements is on record yet.
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Pope Leo XIV Returns to General Audiences With a Talk on Family
At his first Wednesday audience since lung surgery, the pope devoted his catechesis to marriage as taught by Vatican II, a week after a Vatican meeting on the family.