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Pope Leo XIV delivers Easter message

Pope Leo XIV invokes Pope Francis' final words in Easter plea against growing 'indifference' to war

Pope Leo XIV gave his first Easter blessing as pontiff on Sunday, calling for peace and urging the world not to grow indifferent to the deaths of tens of thousands in violent conflicts around the worl...

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Pope Leo’s Easter message 2026: Pontiff urges world leaders to end war

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Pope Leo XIV calls for peace, urges world leaders to end wars in Easter message

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On Easter, Pope Leo urges world leaders to end wars, conquest

Pope Leo urged global leaders in his Easter message on Sunday to end the conflicts raging across the world and abandon any schemes for power, conquest or domination.

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Pope Leo urges those who ‘unleash wars’ to choose peace in his first Easter message

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Pope Leo delivers historic Easter message

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Pope Leo XIV carries cross for full Good Friday procession, the first pontiff to do so in decades

“I think it will be an important sign because of what the pope represents, a spiritual leader in the world today, and for this voice, that everyone wants to hear, that says Christ still suffers,” Leo ...

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Pope Leo focuses on retaining hope amid war and suffering in his first Easter Mass

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Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in first Easter address

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Pope Leo's Holy Thursday marks return to pre-Francis era practice

After 12 years in which Pope Francis celebrated the Mass of the Lord's Supper in prisons, washing the feet of incarcerated people, women and non-Catholics, Leo opted to open the Easter Triduum in the Basilica of St.

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Vatican says Pope Francis died after cerebral stroke

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset with scandal.

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Pope Leo’s Easter Sunday 2026 Holy Mass, Urbi et Orbi blessing at the Vatican: watch the video

Holy Mass took place in the Vatican today, before Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Easter Sunday Urbi et Orbi message.