LIVING THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN THE 3RD MILLENIUM

A LAYMAN'S LOOK AT THE JOURNEY OF FAITH

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POPE LEO XIV SPENDS AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY WITH THE MIGRANTS OF LAMPEDUSA

POPE LEO XIV SPENDS AMERICA’S 250TH BIRTHDAY WITH THE MIGRANTS OF LAMPEDUSA

While the United States marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with parades, cookouts, and fireworks, history’s first American pope spent the Fourth of July on Lampedusa, the tiny Sicilian island that serves as Europe’s front door for migrants crossing from North Africa. Tens of thousands of others never reached it alive.