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Witnessing hope: My trip to Zambia with Catholic Relief Services

Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., shares his experience visiting Zambia with Catholic Relief Services. The delegation learned about the organization’s work to improve the health of children and pregnant women.

• New pope calls for Christian witness in the world 

  

  By JUSTIN McLELLAN, Catholic News Service
  Published May 14, 2025

  Where Christians are “mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied” is where the church’s “missionary outreach is most desperately needed,” Pope Leo XIV said in his first homily as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. 

• Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV

  

  By CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
  Published May 8, 2025

  Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the name Pope Leo XIV.

• White smoke from Rome

  

  Published May 8, 2025

  White smoke appeared at the Vatican as of 12:09 p.m. Eastern Time, signifying the election of a new pope. Find coverage of the new pope at www.georgiabulletin.org in the coming days.