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Times
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Times Daily Quiz: Friday May 23, 2025
1 Jack Rosenthal's 1976 TV play Bar Mitzvah Boy centres on which religion? 2 Which 20th-century global conflict pitted the Allies against the Central Powers? 3 Which animal precedes 'burglar' in a term for a thief who uses agility to break into buildings? 4 The RNIB is the Royal National Institute of … which people? 5 A cross of the Enterprise and Honeycrisp, the Cosmic Crisp is a variety of which fruit? 6 Which Royal Botanic Gardens was given Unesco world heritage site status in 2003? 7 Handel's Zadok the Priest was the first piece played on which radio station in September 1992? 8 The world's first organised municipal fire brigade was founded in which Scottish city? 9 For his royal cypher, Charles III chose


CNA
09-05-2025
- Politics
- CNA
Pope Leo: New leader of Roman Catholic Church celebrates first mass
The new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, has celebrated his first mass, within 24 hours of being chosen by fellow cardinals. Pope Leo had, until now, remained largely out of the public eye, but with new prominence, there will be much more focus on where he stands on key issues.


Bloomberg
09-05-2025
- General
- Bloomberg
Pope Leo XIV has a 'Global Vision': Sister Mary C. Boys
Sister Mary C. Boys, Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, reacts to the first remarks from Pope Leo XIV and what they reveal about the new pope's vision for the church and Catholics around the world. (Source: Bloomberg)


CTV News
09-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
CTV National News: The moment 'Habemus Papam' was declared
Watch Genevieve Beauchemin describes the moment U.S. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who had taken the name Leo XIV, emerged as the Catholic Church's new pope.


Washington Post
08-05-2025
- General
- Washington Post
A pope from Chicago can help bridge Catholic divides
Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost has gone by 'Bob' for most of his life. On Thursday, the 69-year-old became Pope Leo XIV — the first American ever to lead the Catholic Church and the first native English speaker since 1159. His fellow cardinals elected him after only one day of deliberations.