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cardinal

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Following Francis's death, Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, became Pope Leo XIV after he was elected by the conclave of cardinals.

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The bestseller is a pack of lies that maligns Jesus and harms Catholicism, a cardinal announces.

His kids had grown up wearing cardinal and gold.

John Henry Newman was first made a cardinal in 1879 by Pope Leo XIII, a position he held for 11 years before his death.

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She had ceramic cardinals and bluejays on tables in the living room of her farmhouse in Illinois, where I’d spend every summer.

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