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americamagazine.org > news > 07/23/2026 > pope-leo-brother-shrine-benedict

Pope Leo takes surprise road trip with his brother to mountainside shrines during his summer vacation

4+ hour, 13+ min ago   (254+ words) A video shared by one pilgrim showed the pope’s brother John Prevost stepping out of the black car along with Pope Leo, to the surprise of visitors who had come to the shrine without expecting a papal visit....

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americamagazine.org > news > 07/14/2026 > vatican-priest-immigrant-advocates

Vatican-backed priest touring the US calls suffering of immigrants ‘completely unjust’

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1292+ words) (RNS) — When the news broke that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had been shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he drove his construction crew to work in Houston last week, a Vatican representative was meeting with immigrant…...

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americamagazine.org > politics-society > dispatches > 06/22/2026 > hernan-cortes-500-genocide-encounter-indigenous

500 years later, the Spanish conqueror of Mexico still stirs controversy on both sides of the Atlantic

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1098+ words) While many Mexicans consider Cortés a rapacious historical villain, Hispanophiles, both in Spain and across the Americas, lionize him for bringing Catholicism and Spanish culture to Mesoamerica....

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americamagazine.org > podcasts > 06/19/2026 > like-ive-rarely-seen-him-pope-leos-visit-to-spain

‘Like I’ve rarely seen him’: Pope Leo’s visit to Spain

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (197+ words) Pope Leo visited Spain from June 6-12, a visit that drew record-breaking crowds. This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerard O’Connell recaps for Colleen Dulle the highlights from the pope’s three stops: Madrid, Barcelona and the Canary Islands. On the last…...

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americamagazine.org > news > 06/15/2026 > pope-approves-statutes-child-protection

Pope Leo XIV approves new statutes for child protection commission

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (465+ words) (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV approved new statutes for the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors that seek to balance its integration with the Roman Curia while preserving its independence. The updated statutes, which were published by the Vatican…...

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americamagazine.org > vatican-dispatch > 06/10/2026 > pope-leo-xiv-honors-antoni-gaudi-and-blesses-the-sagrada-familias-final-tower

Pope Leo XIV honors Antoni Gaudí and blesses the Sagrada Familia’s final tower

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1463+ words) Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in the Basilica of La Sagrada Familia in the city of Barcelona, and inaugurated the sixth and last of the big towers of the basilica—the Tower of Jesus Christ—on the evening of June…...

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americamagazine.org > vatican-dispatch > 06/12/2026 > pope-leo-ends-visit-to-spain-with-a-call-to-repent

Pope Leo ends visit to Spain with a call to repent

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (706+ words) Pope Leo XIV concluded his weeklong visit to Spain in high-powered mode, with fire in his soul, on the Canary Island of Tenerife where on June 12 he issued a mighty denunciation of those who traffic or exploit migrants, shouting, “Stop!...

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americamagazine.org > vatican-dispatch > 06/11/2026 > on-gran-canaria-pope-leo-says-human-dignity-has-no-passport

‘Human dignity has no passport’: Pope Leo visits Gran Canaria

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1161+ words) “We cannot grow accustomed to counting the dead. Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” Pope Leo XIV declared in a major speech on migration that was addressed not only to the…...

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americamagazine.org > politics-society > dispatches > 06/10/2026 > sagrada-familia-astorga-palacio-antoni-gaudi

Gaudí’s masterworks beyond Barcelona and La Sagrada Familia

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1130+ words) When Pope Leo XIV visits Spain, he will bless the final tower of the country’s most famous church, the magnificent La Sagrada Familia, the masterpiece of Antoni Gaudí, renowned as “the Architect of God.” Gaudí was declared venerable last year…...

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americamagazine.org > vatican-dispatch > 06/10/2026 > pope-leo-visits-the-famed-monastery-entrusting-his-ministry-to-the-virgin-of-montserrat

Pope Leo visits famed Spanish monastery, entrusting his ministry to the Virgin of Montserrat

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (741+ words) On the fourth day of his visit to Spain, Pope Leo traveled to the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat, 40 km from Barcelona on June 10, to pray before the revered image of the Virgin of Montserrat and entrust to…...