Earlier this year, amid a flurry of tradition and ceremony, the Roman Catholic Church elected a new Pope.  Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, an American with dual citizenship, spent many years in Peru working as a missionary, living among the poor and striving for a better life for them.  As an Augustinian he committed himself to upholding vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and to following the example of St Augustine which included a little saying about hope.  “Hope” Au

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