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Meanwhile, the new Pope, Leo XIV, has called for the Catholic Church to “desperately” counter a lack of faith in his first mass at the Vatican.
Speaking the day after he was elected as the 267th Pope and first US leader of the Church, he warned that people were turning away from faith and instead to “technology, money, success, power, or pleasure”.
Leo said he had been elected to be a “faithful administrator” of a Church that would act as a “beacon that illuminates the dark nights of this world”. In his sermon today, the new Pope said there were many settings where the Christian faith was considered “absurd” – with power, wealth, and technology dominating saying it was precisely there that missionary outreach was needed. ENDS