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Unity was a word often spoken by Catholics around metro Atlanta on a historic Thursday. After white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney, an American was announced as the 267th pope. Robert ...

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The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on May 9, the day after stunning the world as the first pope from the United States in the Church's history.

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It began not with thunder, but with a curl of white smoke against a bright blue Roman sky. For a brief moment, all sound in ...

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More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...