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Full text: Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Oct. 11, 2026

by Pope Leo XIV

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given Oct. 11 at St. Peter’s Square, reflecting on today’s Gospel reading.

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U.S. Church

Everything ‘begins with God’ for first Black woman to be president of Denver’s Regis University

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Shawna Cooper Whitehead is the first African American and the first woman to head Regis and the first Black woman president to lead a U.S. Jesuit university.

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World

Sydney bishops discuss plans for Eucharistic Congress with Pope Leo, with dates set

by Marilyn Rodrigues

This will be the 54th International Eucharistic Congress. It has been hosted twice in Australia already: in Sydney in 1928 and Melbourne in 1973.

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Vatican

Bishops discuss cohabitation of young couples at Vatican meeting on marriage and family

by Courtney Mares

Opinion

Capital punishment is ambiguously inadmissible

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Quo vadis, Ecclesia?

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Reviews

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