The Catholic Church Is Back

Sixteen years after a Vatican cardinal dismissed the abuse crisis as “petty gossip,” Pope Leo XIV sat with survivors at Lourdes. Benedict and Francis made the American pope possible.

Pope Leo XIV waves to the faithful at Mass during his June 2026 visit to Spain’s Canary Islands, where he honored migrants lost at sea.

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