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Cardinal Robert Prevost announced as first American pope, taking name Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV has been elected following roughly 24 hours of deliberation among the 133-member College of Cardinals, the Vatican announced on Thursday.
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First American elected pontiff, get to know Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV became the newest pope to sit in the highest office in the Catholic Church, and the first American to do so, after a lifetime of service in both Chicago and Peru.
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Who cares if he is from Chicago?
Sorry, I'm not Catholic for a reason. I love the ceremony and traditions of the masses, but there are some seriously crazy man made laws I disagree with.
I don't need an intermediary to go on my behalf to God. I don't pray to Mary or any saints...
Maybe they need to re-evaluate requiring mandatory celibacy, and instead allow priests to marry and have families. Perhaps that way they won't have so many gay pediphiles in charge of congregations.
(Sorry, in San Diego we had a bunch of really bad pediphiles that the Catholic church just shifted from one parish to the next when they found out they were diddling children. Never turning them over to the courts.)
In addition, I have never understood how an unmarried man, no matter how well he knows God's word, can give advise to a family. So many areas of life and love he will never understand without a spouse and kids.
Pope Benedict VIII formally forbade priestly marriages in 1018. The First Lateran Council in 1123 extended this prohibition. However, it was the Second Lateran Council in 1139 that made celibacy mandatory for all future priests in the Western Church, solidifying the practice as a universal law,
It had more to do with the children of a priest not being given his land. Better the land stayed within the church ownership.
Men are the reason God's word is corrupted.
Look at the wealth of the Vatican.
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Encouraging
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Pope Leo says family based on ‘union between a man and a woman,’ defends dignity of unborn
Pope Leo XIV has reaffirmed traditional Catholic views on marriage and dignity of the unborn, emphasizing peace, justice and truth in his first major remarks.
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Pope Leo criticized the emergence of nationalist political movements on Sunday, calling them unfortunate, without naming a specific country or national leader.
Leo, the first pope from the U.S., asked during a Mass with a crowd of tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square that God would "open borders, break down walls (and) dispel hatred."
Pope Leo criticized the emergence of nationalist political movements on Sunday, calling them unfortunate, without naming a specific country or national leader.
Leo, the first pope from the U.S., asked during a Mass with a crowd of tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square that God would "open borders, break down walls (and) dispel hatred."
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Glad he is not our elected President of the United States.