Gaza, Leo XIV and Israel
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Israeli strikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip Wednesday, killing at least 82 people, including several women and a week-old infant, according to the
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.
VATICAN CITY — Jewish leaders got up-front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass. An American rabbi there and other representatives saw that as a hopeful sign for an upswing of Catholic-Jewish relations under the first U.S.-born pontiff, after a strained relationship with his predecessor.