Somehow, it got out that Pope Leo XIV, who was born in the U.S., cast an absentee ballot in the midtern elections.
Fox Digital got the scoop, but I saw in on the tweets of various internet influencers before that, so the news was probably leaked.
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Pope says assisted dying not ‘normal’
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said assisted dying was not “normal”, as he continued a landmark visit to France, where parliament has legalized the practice for certain patients.
“No human law should ever make you lose the certainty of your dignity,” he told believers who were sick or suffered from disabilities, at the French pilgrimage site of Lourdes.
“We must reject the temptation to cause death under the guise of false compassion. It is impossible to regard causing death as something normal,” he added.
Pope Leo’s mass appeal: American pontiff is met by 600,000 crowd as he arrives for outdoor service in Paris before heading for Lourdes
Thousands of people have greeted Pope Leo in Paris as he arrives in the French capital for an outdoor service ahead of a visit to Lourdes.
Over 600,000 Catholics registered to attend the mid-afternoon mass on Paris’s famous Place de la Concorde, for what is expected to be the biggest event of the Pontiff’s visit to France.
Spectators arrived on the Champs-Élysées before sunrise to try to secure the best view of Pope Leo, who was driven down the boulevard in an open-top popemobile.
INCROYABLE
There are close to a million people at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to see Pope Leo XIV
These scenes are unbelievable pic.twitter.com/qgtuhdRIcP
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) September 26, 2026
What an incredible sight. Hundreds of thousands of people filled the Champs-Élysées today to welcome Pope Leo to Paris. A Catholic revival is underway in one of Europe's most secular countries.pic.twitter.com/qZpsYcM0XD
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) September 26, 2026
Pope urges Europe to do more for migrants while visiting gateway island
Pope Leo XIV has called on European leaders to rise to the “momentous challenge” of handling migration as he visited the Italian island of Lampedusa.
The pontiff urged Europe to help new arrivals integrate better and improve conditions in their home countries, during a mass on the island, which receives tens of thousands of migrants a year.
“Those who have lost their lives in this sea are victims both of decisions that were made and of decisions that were not made,” the Pope said.
Pope Apologizes for Church’s Support of Slavery
Well, isn’t this interesting?
Over there at Mediaite is this headline: “Pope Leo Makes Historic Public Apology for Vatican’s Complicity in Slavery,” but silence on reparations.
Pope Leo: Christians and Muslims Must Work Together to ‘Revive Humanity’
Pope Leo XIV is doubling down on Christian-Muslim dialogue, emphasizing an “equal” partnership in both traditions toward global transformation. But normative Islam does not view disbelievers as equals. “Pope: Christians and Muslims must work together to ‘revive humanity,’” by Joseph Tulloch, Vatican News, May 11, 2026…
Trump accuses pope of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with Iran stance
Donald Trump has issued a fresh verbal attack against Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of “endangering a lot of Catholics” because “he thinks it’s fine for Iran to have a nuclear weapon”.
The remarks come two days before Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, meets Leo at the Vatican in an effort to ease the tensions sparked by Trump’s previous broadside against the Chicago-born pontiff over his condemnation of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Pope Leo vs. President Trump
After the tragic experiences of the 20th century, aerial bombardment should have been banished forever!” declared Pope Leo XIV this week. “Instead, as we know, it still exists, and technological development, which is positive in itself, is being put at the service of war. This is not progress, it is regression!” The pontiff remonstrated: “Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear that threats of death and destruction will come from the sky.”
The first pope from the US is pressing Trump — and getting little in return
The White House’s top ranks are filled with Catholics, and President Donald Trump has courted the Catholic vote. But repeated, pointed criticisms from the first American to lead the Catholic Church have done little to move the administration on policy.
In recent months, Pope Leo XIV has criticized the administration’s treatment of migrants, its antipathy toward Europe and global institutions like the United Nations and the use of what he characterized as “diplomacy based on force” in the wake of the U.S.’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.