5 h. ago Venezuela on edge over Trump regime change whispers: ‘If it does happen we are ready’

Allies of President Nicolás Maduro vow to resist any military intervention but experts suspect Venezuela’s leaders were rattled by Trump’s decision to bomb IranThe mayor of Caracas had come to one of her city’s busiest tube stations wearing a camouflage T-shirt declaring herself a card-carrying combatant – and with a message to match.“They think they’re the owners of the world,” Carmen Meléndez complained of the Trump administration and its pressure campaign against Venezuela’s government. “But if they dare [to invade] we’ll be waiting for them here.” Continue reading...

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13 h. ago President Maduro asks Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Pope Leo XIV to help maintain peace in Venezuela

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22 h. ago Pope Leo rolls back one of his predecessor’s more questionable reforms

The law is the clearest sign yet that Leo is recalibrating the powers in the Vatican

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25 h. ago Pope Leo XIV is starting to correct some of Francis' more problematic financial decisions

Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions

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57 h. ago Trump’s bullying of Latin America isn’t part of any plan – he doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing | Simon Tisdall

The president’s threats to attack Venezuela are regressive, dangerous and almost certain to backfireRunning for president in 2024, Donald Trump vowed to avoid costly, often disastrous overseas US military interventions like Iraq and Afghanistan. This was a key plank in his isolationist “America first” platform. Yet within months of his inauguration, US forces were bombing Yemen and Iran. Looking south, Trump threatened to seize the Panama canal. Now, the Pentagon is gearing up for attacks on “terrorist” drug cartels deep inside Colombia and Mexico. Of most immediate concern is a possible renewed White House effort to forcibly impose regime change on Venezuela.Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s hard-left authoritarian president, believes this effort is already under way. He says the US is waging “undeclared war” on his country after several deadly strikes on Venezuelan vessels in international waters. Trump notified Congress last week that the US is engaged in “armed conflict” with drug car...

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5 d. ago MAGA comes for the ‘woke pope’ after pontiff blesses block of ice in climate change gesture

The American pontiff asked world leaders to ‘act with courage’ to fight climate change, embracing his predecessor’s environmental legacy

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5 d. ago Woke American Pope Leo blesses a block of ice in bizarre climate change stunt after swiping at Trump's global warming policies

The American pontiff slammed skeptics who 'ridicule those who speak of global warming,' as he strongly embraced Pope Francis´ environmental legacy.

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5 d. ago ‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics

Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’Pope Leo XIV has taken aim at people who “ridicule those who speak of global warming” as he embraced Pope Francis’s environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his strongest and most extensive comments on the subject to date.Leo presided over the 10th-anniversary celebration of Francis’s landmark ecological encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised Be), at a global gathering south of Rome. The encyclical cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern and launched a global grassroots movement to advocate for caring for God’s creation and the peoples most harmed by its exploitation. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Pope Leo XIV takes aim at climate skeptics as he embraces predecessor's environmental legacy

Pope Leo XIV is taking aim at skeptics who he says “ridicule those who speak of global warming.”

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6 d. ago Pope Leo criticizes Trump’s hardline immigration policies: ‘I don’t know if that’s pro

Pope questions what it means to be ‘pro-life’ amid the ‘inhuman treatment of immigrants’ in the US Pope Leo on Tuesday strongly criticized Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic church’s “pro-life” teachings.“Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life,” the pontiff told journalists outside the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban Hills, near Rome. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘I hope Hamas will accept it’: Pope Leo praises Trump’s Gaza plan

The US President unveiled his plan during the Israeli prime minister’s visit to the White House on Monday

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1 week ago King Charles to visit Vatican and meet Pope Leo for first time

King and Queen Camilla to join pontiff in late October amid jubilee year celebrations, says Buckingham PalaceKing Charles III and Queen Camilla will make a state visit to meet Pope Leo XIV for the first time at the Vatican next month, Buckingham Palace has said.The trip in late October will come about six months after the royal couple visited Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, shortly before his death in April. Continue reading...

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1 week ago King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit the Vatican and meet with Pope Leo XIV for the first time next month

King Charles, 76, and Queen Camilla, 78, will travel to Vatican City in late October to meet Pope Leo XIV to celebrate the 2025 Jubilee Year.

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1 week ago King Charles to meet Pope Leo during Vatican City state visit

Charles and Camilla met with Pope Francis just 12 days before his death

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1 week ago King and Queen to meet Pope Leo on state visit to the Holy See

The visit will take place in late October to celebrate the 2025 jubilee year.

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1 week ago Pope Leo makes first big Vatican appointment to fill his old job at important bishop's office

Pope Leo XIV has made his first big Vatican appointment

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1 week ago Pope names successor for embattled New Orleans archbishop after sex abuse settlement

Pope names James Checchio to succeed Gregory Aymond two weeks after archdiocese agreed to settle with survivorsPope Leo XIV on Wednesday named an eventual successor to New Orleans’ embattled Catholic archbishop, Gregory Aymond, two weeks after his archdiocese agreed to settle with survivors of clergy sexual abuse for $230m.Leo, history’s first US pope, named bishop James Checchio of Metuchen, New Jersey, as the coadjutor bishop of New Orleans. The role positions Checchio to assist Aymond initially and then succeed him when he retires. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pope identifies successor for embattled New Orleans archbishop after sex abuse settlement

Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse

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2 w. ago Pope Leo admits he is not a Donald Trump supporter in revealing interview

Pope Leo XIV remarked US bishops showed ‘courage’ in confronting the Trump administration

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2 w. ago Pope Leo reveals he is not a Donald Trump supporter in revealing interview

Pope Leo XIV remarked US bishops showed ‘courage’ in confronting the Trump administration

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