Pope Leo XIV offers message urging seminarians to be joyful

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV kicked off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy Tuesday by encouraging seminarians to be joyful and honest, offering an uplifting message after Pope Francis frequently castigated priests and decried what he called the sin of “clericalism.”History’s first American pope presided over a rollicking encounter with thousands of young men who were in Rome f...

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