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Pope is delayed in the Canary Islands when his charter flight has a technical problem
Pope Leo XIV and some members of the Vatican delegation got off a plane in the Canary Islands on Friday shortly after boarding the Iberia charter en route back to Rome.
Religious schools push ‘respectful disagreement’ in Trump era
Religious colleges are holding themselves up as models of respectful political disagreement in the Trump era, as they met this week to promote their speech codes as moralizing influences on students.
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Pope Leo XIV met Monday with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis, the Vatican said.