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Pope Returns 62 Artifacts to Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous artifacts from Vatican returning to Canada as gift from Pope Leo

A historic collection of Indigenous artifacts held by Vatican Museums for a century was handed back to Indigenous groups across the country Saturday morning as a gift from Pope Leo. A joint statement by the Holy See and Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops says that the return of the 62 artifacts from the Vatican Museum’s controversial ethnographic collection was initiated by the late Pope Francis as a part of his 2022 papal visit to Canada.

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Pope Returns 62 Artifacts to Indigenous Peoples From Canada as Part of Reckoning With Colonial Past

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Pope returns dozens of Indigenous artifacts to Canada

Pope Leo XIV hosts Hollywood at Vatican

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Hollywood stars shower Pope Leo with gifts on Vatican visit

Pope Leo was presented with a bracelet by Cate Blanchett and a personalised New York Knicks basketball jersey by Spike Lee as dozens of prominent figures from the world of cinema and television visite...

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Pope Leo hosts dozens of Hollywood actors, directors at Vatican

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Pope Leo welcomes Hollywood stars to the Vatican

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Pope urges Hollywood stars to save cinemas as box office sales decline

Pope Leo XIV addressed leading Hollywood figures, including Cate Blanchett and Spike Lee, at the Vatican on Saturday.

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Pope Leo meets with film stars and directors at Vatican - and gets a basketball jersey from Spike Lee

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Pope Leo XIV hosts Hollywood at the Vatican

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Pope Leo XIV celebrates the power of cinema with star-studded Vatican audience

He said institutions should not give up, but "cooperate in affirming the social and cultural value" of theaters, drawing applause from the audience.

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Pope Leo XIV honors cinema with Hollywood stars and encourages the inclusion of marginal voices

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Pope Leo XIV urges Hollywood actors to resist algorithms and save neighbourhood cinemas

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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in suffrage for deceased prelates

Pope Leo XIV on Monday presided over a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in suffrage for the late Pope Francis and for deceased cardinals and bishops.

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Pope Leo to call College of Cardinals to Rome for a two-day January meeting

Pope Leo XIV intends to call all the cardinals to the Vatican for a two-day meeting on Jan. 7-8, 2026, the Vatican Secretariat of State has told them.

Catholic Standard

Pope Leo’s first six months seen as ‘revolution of kindness’ with a missionary impulse

Allen’s book, “León XIV: Ciudadano del mundo, misionero del siglo XXI” (“Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the 21st Century”), which was published in Spanish in September, featured the pope’s first interview after his election, in which he weighed in on issues facing the Catholic Church and the world.

Manila Standard

Pope Leo urges leaders not to leave poor behind

Pope Leo XIV decried poverty on Sunday, urging world leaders and Catholics to reach out to marginalized people, as the Church

America Magazine

Review: A first look at an intriguing new pope

Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy' presents readers with a substantive, engaging portrait of where things stand right now in a church, and a world, increasingly marked by polarization,