papacy
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Leo has made the hot-button issue a cornerstone of his papacy in dedicating to it his first encyclical -- a document which lays the basis for Church teaching and longer-term debate.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
Guest: Christopher Hale, author of the “Letters from Leo” Substack, “a chronicle of how Pope Leo XIV’s papacy intersects with American politics, faith, and the digital age during the presidency of Donald Trump.”
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
But as outrage mounted in Italy, home to the papacy, she said she needed to clarify that she had found Trump’s words “unacceptable.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
A separate U.S. official reportedly brought up the fourteenth-century Avignon papacy.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2026
They kept the papacy weak and unstable, standing with their weapons in hand right under the eyes of the Pope.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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