Vatican City, May 9, 2025 (AFP) - Pope Leo XIV says Church must illuminate 'dark nights of this world'

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2025-05-09

Pope Leo XIV said Friday he was elected new head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics so the Church can be a "beacon" to reach areas suffering a "lack of faith". "God has called me by your election" to be a "faithful administrator" of the Church so that it can be "an ark of salvation sailing through the waters of history and a beacon that illumines the dark nights of this world", Leo said in his first homily at the Sistine Chapel. "There are many......

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