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Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 11, 2025. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

DOD denies threat to Pope Leo

Garrett Owen
Pope Leo XIV holds the Easter candle at St. Peter's basilica in the Vatican, April 4, 2026. (Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images)

Why does the right hate the pope?

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA is showing cracks over religion

Heather Digby Parton
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 11, 2025. (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Leo's anti-MAGA vision

Sophia Tesfaye
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Pope Leo XIV meets media representatives in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican on May 12, 2025. (Maria Grazia Picciarella/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A pope of the people?

Russell Payne
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican, on May 8, 2025. (TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)

Vatican conclave elects an American pope

Charles R. Davis
Cardinals in Vatican City (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images)

A business plan for electing a pope

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pope Francis presides over the celebration of the Second Vespers of the solemnity of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle, at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unit, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Pope Francis dead at 88

Natalie Chandler, Nicholas Liu
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Pope Francis waves to the faithful during his weekly General Audience at the Paul VI Hall on January 17, 2024 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope on sexual pleasure: "Gift from God"

Gabriella Ferrigine
Pope Francis delivers his Angelus blessing on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 08, 2023 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by (Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images)

Pope approves blessing same-sex couples

Joy Saha
Pope Francis leads the celebration of the second vespers on the occasion of the the solemnity of the conversion of St. Paul at St. Paul's Basilica on January 25, 2023 in Rome, Italy. (Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why pope says being gay "isn't a crime"

Steven P. Millies - The Conversation
Church of St. Francis of Assisi commemorates the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI displaying his portrait picture with a black ribbon, on January 04, 2023 in Krakow, Poland. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pope Benedict: Troubled leader, no saint

Celia Viggo Wexler
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Christopher Columbus monument close to Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain (Getty Images/hutchyb)

Forget Columbus — the church was worse

Celia Viggo Wexler
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Washington, presides over Good Friday services at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, April 19, 2019. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Catholic bishops' big win may backfire

Celia Viggo Wexler
Pope Francis, Sayyed Abu al-Qasim al-Dibaji and Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt at Rome's Colosseum for an International Meeting for Peace with leaders of various religions and confessions in Rome, Italy. (Stefano Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The pope in Saudi Arabia? It's possible

Mohammad Ali Salih
Milo Yiannopoulos and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MTG and Milo: Perfect storm of trolls

Kathryn Joyce
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol April 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

MTG draws Christian blowback for "Satan"

Jon Skolnik
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during former president Donald J Trump's Save America rally in Perry, GA, United States on September 25, 2021. (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

MTG to Catholics: Satan runs your church

Kathryn Joyce
Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Patriot Park, main temple of the Armed Forces of Russia, Moscow region (Getty Images/Yulia-B)

Putin, Ukraine and the Virgin Mary

Kathryn Joyce
Sister Chan Khong, an 82-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk, greets visitors the first day of Lunar New Year at Tu Hieu temple on January 25, 2020 in Hue, Vietnam (Linh Pham/Getty Images)

Women influencing male-led faiths

Emily Costello, Thalia Plata - The Conversation
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Kaitlin Bennett's Open Carry Rally was halted and ultimately diverted after left wing protesters blocked their path.Kaitlin Bennett, a former student of Kent State University, lead an open carry protest on her former campus. The Three Precenters came in as bodyguards for Bennett and her group Liberty Hangout. On September 29, 2018 in Kent, Ohio, USA. (Shay Horse/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Gun Girl goes Catholic: Right-wing trend

Kathryn Joyce
Virginie Efira in Paul Verhoeven’s "Benedetta" (IFC Films)

The long history of sexy nunsploitation

Kaite Welsh
Anti-Abortion activists gather in oppostion in front of the supreme court during the annual Women’s March October 2, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Women's March and other groups organized marches across the country to protest the new abortion law in Texas. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

When the right wasn't anti-abortion

Matthew Rozsa
Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Abortion, theocracy and the high court

Phil Zuckerman, Andrew L. Seidel
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