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Even Pope Leo played church with Necco wafers as a child
Yes, even the new leader of millions of faithful Catholics around the world once used an iconic Massachusetts candy to play ...
Robert Prevost, the first American pope, is from Chicago and jokes are already flowing: ‘All Communion wafers will be deep-dish’
Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in the Windy City are ...
Catholic Chicagoans celebrate as native son Pope Leo XIV becomes first American pope
Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced that a native son, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had been elected po ...
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Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis' approach to Native people
SIMOJOVEL, Mexico — At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan ... ceremony after picking up Communion wafers that he will take to a priest ...
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Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis' approach to Native people
Pérez Gómez, 57, is able to help tend to his small Tsotsil Catholic community in Mexico ... in the town near his village to pick up the Communion wafers he would give out during his service ...
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Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis’ approach to Native people
Pérez Gómez, 57, is able to help tend to his small Tsotsil Catholic community in Mexico because the ... Pérez Gómez stopped by a church in the town near his village to pick up the Communion wafers he ...