3 d. ago Peter Andre proud of daughter Princess as she makes huge career move

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Andre is opening up about the apologies he is receiving after people watched his controversial film, Jafaican, all while he is filming for a new show

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3 d. ago Pope Leo XIV declares 'I am Roman!' as he completes formalities to become bishop of Rome

Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome

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5 d. ago Takeaways from AP report on abuse case handled by Pope Leo. Victims say he helped when others didn't

Pope Leo XIV’s record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed scrutiny since his election May 8

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5 d. ago 'He listened to me': Victims of an abusive Catholic group say Pope Leo XIV helped when others didn't

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed scrutiny since his election May 8

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5 d. ago William and Kate burst out laughing after Princess makes huge blunder while trying to beat her husband during military exercise

Kate, 43, officially named the Royal Navy's HMS Glasgow at the BAE Systems' shipyard in Scotstoun, on the bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, on Thursday.

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6 d. ago Pope Leo XIV makes first U.S. bishop appointment, fills San Diego vacancy

Pope Leo XIV has made his first American bishop appointment

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7 d. ago Volodymyr Zelenskyy has courage. Pope Francis had it too. Why are there so many cowards? | Alexander Hurst

Corruption and greed have eroded morality in public life. Powerful people who do what is right are in short supply“Courage is seeking the truth and speaking it,” Jean Jaurès, the French philosopher and Socialist party leader, told a group of high school students in 1903. “It is not yielding to the law of the triumphant lie as it passes, and not echoing, with our soul, our mouth and our hands, mindless applause and fanatical jeering.”When the first world war reared its ugly, pointless head, Jaurès refused to give in to mindless fanaticism and attempted to coordinate a Franco-German general strike to stop the rush to war. In 1914, he paid for those efforts with his life when a 29-year-old French nationalist shot him twice in the back.Alexander Hurst is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Saturday Night Live: the 10 best sketches from the 50th season

While the splashy, star-packed season might not have lived up to the hype, there were still enough notably hilarious momentsThis was a massive season for Saturday Night Live, which celebrated 50 years on air. Along with two huge specials – a musical celebration and the big primetime anniversary show – it was also an election year. The season was loaded from start to finish with returning cast members and huge guest stars.You’d think this would translate into a truly memorable run of episodes, but alas, that wasn’t the case with a season that was as choppy as any over the past decade. Which isn’t to say there was nothing good; as with every season, there were any number of sketches that got a lot of attention and laughs. Sometimes more the former than the latter – see the mega-popular Domingo sketches starring Marcello Hernández, which, let’s face it, only went viral because each of them co-starred a pop princess with a huge stan army. But others were legitimately hilarious. Continue...

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8 d. ago Maga Catholics are on a collision course with Leo XIV. They have good reason to fear him | Julian Coman

They have been quick to brand the new pope an ‘anti-Trump’ ‘total Marxist’. In return, he is already critiquing their worldviewIn the outer reaches of the Magasphere, it would be fair to say the advent of the first pope from the US has not been greeted with unbridled enthusiasm. Take Laura Loomer, the thirtysomething influencer and conspiracy theorist, whose verdict on Leo XIV was as instant as it was theologically uninformed: “Anti-Trump, anti-Maga, pro-open Borders, and a total Marxist like Pope Francis.” Also doing the rounds on X was a short summary of Leo’s supposed transgressions before ascending to St Peter’s chair: “Trashed Trump, trashed Vance, trashed border enforcement, endorsed DREAMer-style illegal immigration, repeatedly praised and honored George Floyd, and endorsed a Democrat senator’s call for more gun control.”So far, so tedious. The comic-book casting of the new pope as a globalist villain in the US culture wars is traceable back to his predecessor’s impact on lib...

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9 d. ago Lady Gabriella Windsor opens up about Kate Middleton's touching gesture in rare interview

Lady Gabriella Windsor experienced grief after her husband Thomas Kingston who died aged 45 in February 2024 - but Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, was a huge support

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9 d. ago JD Vance invites Pope Leo to the White House on behalf of Trump during first meeting

Vice president’s closed-door meeting with U.S.-born pontiff comes almost a month after he met with the late Pope Francis

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1 week ago At Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass and beyond, Jewish leaders show hope in Jewish

Jewish leaders got front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass

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1 week ago The right reviled Francis. How will Pope Leo XIV confront the schism in the US church?

Some conservatives rejected Francis for his leftist leanings, but Leo could be able to realize his forerunner’s visionsRightwing Catholic Americans in positions of power – from the vice-president, JD Vance, to Leonardo Leo – may have breathed a brief sigh of relief when, after the white smoke cleared, Pope Leo XIV emerged on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica donning a traditional red mozzetta with a papal stole.It was, observers pointed out, a starkly different choice than his predecessor Pope Francis, a reviled figure among many staunch conservatives, who had worn all white on the same occasion in 2013 to symbolize his desire for simplicity and humility. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ritual, symbol and a popemobile tour mark Pope Leo XIV's installation Mass

About 150 official delegations are expected at the formal installation Mass for Pope Leo XIV

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1 week ago Pope meets with head of Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, who invites him to Kyiv

Pope Leo XIV has met at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine

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2 w. ago Katie Price’s daughter Princess shares excitement after celebrating huge new milestone

Just weeks before Princess Andre is due to celebrate her 18th birthday she has proudly shared some very exciting news with her 737,000 Instagram followers - and her brother had a very sweet reaction

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2 w. ago Those who've worked with Pope Leo XIV are optimistic he'll elevate women's roles — with limits

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that vets nominations for bishops

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2 w. ago Ignorant ChatGPT says Pope Francis 'isn't dead' – then issues grovelling apology

EXCLUSIVE: After the Daily Star realised that ChatGPT doesn't think Pope Leo XIV was a real person, we forced the AI chatbot into an apology as if we were telling off a naughty child

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2 w. ago Conservatives are cautiously hopeful that Pope Leo XIV will restore rigor to the papacy

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, hopeful he will return doctrinal rigor to the papacy, even as progressives sense he will continue Pope Francis’ reformist agenda

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2 w. ago The new pope is the internet’s biggest meme. What does that say about us? | Tayo Bero

Social media has been fun for the first time in years. But the joy of this moment is about more than just jokesWhile most good Catholics spent the early days of this week in solemn contemplation, praying that the church’s new leader would be a person of character and someone who could unite us in these tense, ungodly times, the rest of us were on X cackling at our screens and reposting chimney memes.Social media has been having a field day since Pope Francis passed and the race was on for a new pope. And now that Pope Leo XIV from Chicago has been selected, the jokes have been top-tier – references to the TV show The Bear, videos of the new pope walking out to music by the Chicago legend Chief Keef, Spike Lee somehow making this a win for the New York Knicks – I don’t remember the last time I had this much fun in the hellish digital town square formerly known as Twitter.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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