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Analysis: Pope Leo XIV meets with Outreach founder Father James Martin, S.J.

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By Gerard O'Connell Verified
| Outreach
Outreach Original Gerard O'Connell / September 1, 2025 Print this: This article first appeared at America on Sept. 1, 2025, with the headline, “Pope Leo meets with Father James Martin, seen as a sign of support for ministry with L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics.” Pope Leo XIV received James Martin, S.J., editor-at-large at America and the founder of Outreach, in private audience in the papal library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace this morning, Sept.
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Pope Leo appoints French archbishop to succeed Cardinal O’Malley as president of Pontifical Commission for Protection of Minors

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By Gerard O'Connell Verified
| America Magazine Verified
Pope Leo XIV has appointed the French archbishop of Chambéry, Thibault Verny, as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, the Vatican announced today, July 5. Archbishop Verny, 59, has been a member of the commission since 2022. He succeeds Cardinal Seán O’Malley, 81, the emeritus archbishop of Boston who has served with distinction as the first president of the commission ever since Pope Francis first established it in 2014 as an advisory body to the pope.
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Pope Leo XIV: Western Christians must reject ‘fake news’ and help the suffering Eastern churches

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By Gerard O'Connell Verified
| America Magazine Verified
Pope Leo XIV denounced the “violent conflict [that] seems to be raging in the Christian East with a diabolical intensity previously unknown” and said the Christians of the West must do more to help the Christians of the East, especially those suffering in Ukraine, Gaza and other places in the Middle East. “All of us, by virtue of our humanity,” he said, “are called upon to examine the causes of these conflicts, to identify those that are real and to attempt to resolve them.
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