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COMMENTARY: At the Basilica of St. Augustine, Pope Leo XIV pointed beyond the headlines and recalled Augustine’s vision of the human heart — restless and seeking its rest in God.
Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first trip to Africa as Pope next week, with visits to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea. What is the Pope’s message? This week on Register Radio we are joined by Fr. Don Bosco Onyalla, editor-in-chief of ACI Africa. And then, the Holy Spirit is at work in Manhattan as astounding numbers of new – and young – Catholics are filling up our churches. Register senior writer Zelda Caldwell has the story.
After concluding the first leg of his African apostolic journey in Algeria, Pope Leo XIV travels on Wednesday to Cameroon.
The 11-day visit combines pastoral encounters with Catholic communities, meetings with political leaders and civil society, and symbolic gestures of interreligious dialogue and reconciliation.
The Mass for solidarity came amid the International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C.
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s upcoming trip to Africa’s only Spanish-speaking nation will bring him to a Catholic country shaped by oil wealth, inequality and decades of authoritarian rule.
COMMENTARY: A journey across Eastern and Southern Africa revealed the Gospel lived with freshness and zeal — a sign of where the global Church is heading.
In a wide-ranging interview, Archbishop Cornelius Fontem Esua reflects on Africa’s growing role as a Church ‘missionary to itself,’ the roots of Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis, and the Church’s work to sustain hope.
Togo's thriving Catholic Church lifts up a nation through education and enterprise.
The call by the congress delegates comes amid mounting frustrations of foreign Catholic priests who have been forced out of South Africa on alleged expiry of their visas.
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