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Pope ‘proud to be an American’ after US elections, and credits God and doctors with cancer rebound
Pope Leo XIV discusses his pride in participating in U.S. elections and shares his resilient recovery after successful lung cancer surgery ahead of his three-nation Latin American tour.
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7mPope wraps up Uruguay visit and heads to most fraught stop of his tour in Milei’s Argentina
Thousands of people poured into Florida’s main square on Sunday ahead of the Mass under brilliant blue skies, some walking for several kilometers (miles) to reach the site.
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6mPope urges faithful in Uruguay to build bridges of fraternity and faith
Pope Leo XIV urged an estimated 40,000 people in Uruguay on Saturday to build bridges of fraternity and faith, as he used his first Mass in South America to deliver an ode to the region's beloved mate tea and raise the profile of the Catholic Church in its most secular country.
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9mDemocratic candidates with a Christian message help flip Congress
Clergy members and other Democratic candidates with an unapologetically Christian message to “love your neighbor” helped their party flip control of Congress.
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5mThousands pour into a park in Uruguay for Pope Leo’s first Mass in South America
More than 30,000 people — many from Uruguay but also from neighboring Argentina and Brazil — had registered to attend the Mass in the Parque París Londres, a sprawling green space on the southern edge of Paysandú — a city that no pope has ever visited before.
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8mPope Leo XIV arrives in Uruguay at start of South American tour less than a month after lung surgery
The 71-year-old pope arrived in Montevideo, Uruguay, Latin America’s most secular country, after a 13 1/2-hour flight from Rome during which he acknowledged “some people” had doubted whether he could make the grueling, 12-day trip at all.