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WorldPingThe leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is on a four-day trip to France, a secular country with deep Catholic roots, marking the first official papal visit there in nearly two decades…
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WorldPingPope Leo spoke to bishops before leading a service attended by thousands of worshippers in France.
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WorldPingPope Leo XIV continued his visit to France in Lourdes, at the major Catholic pilgrimage site in the foothills of the Pyrenees, where he celebrated mass before around 150,000 people.
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WorldPingCatholic church must reckon with its ‘painful errors’, pontiff tells crowd in Lourdes during four-day tour The pope has called on the Catholic church to heal “deep wounds” and “painful errors”, before a meeting with survivors of child sexual abuse as…
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