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Full text: Pope Leo XIV Angelus address Dec. 21

by Pope Leo XIV

This is the full text of the Angelus address given by Pope Leo XIV Dec. 21, 2025, at St. Peter’s Square.

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U.S. Church

Pope Leo appoints Queens pastor as Palm Beach bishop, and Vietnam-born priest as auxiliary in Phoenix

by OSV News

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Bishop Gerald M. Barbarito of Palm Beach, Florida, and named as his successor Father Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, currently pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Corona (Queens), New York. …

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World

A new rider at the helm: Bishop Richard Moth named archbishop of Westminster

by Simon Caldwell

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Richard Moth as the new leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

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Church beatifies 50 French Catholics killed ‘in hatred of the faith’ by German Nazis

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Vatican

Pope Leo and a call for peace

by Michael R. Heinlein

Opinion

Under the mantle of Guadalupe: A miracle for a mother and her child

by Paulina Guzik

Seeking the one who has come

by Father Joshua J. Whitfield

6 years after Sheen’s cause was shelved, could Illinois-born Pope Leo bring it back?

by Michael R. Heinlein

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