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Pope Leo XIV warned new archbishops on Sunday against following “the same old pastoral plans without experiencing interior renewal and a willingness to respond to new challenges.”
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday spoke about unity in the Catholic Church after bestowing the pallium on 54 new metropolitan archbishops on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of the city of Rome.
Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, began his papacy with a richly-symbolic inaugural Mass, celebrated at the Vatican before a crowd of 150,00 people.
Each blessed pallium will be placed on the shoulders of the 42 new metropolitan archbishops who were appointed during the last year, including two Americans.
The representative of the Holy Father in Nigeria has, at the Eucharistic celebration during which the Archbishop of Abuja received the pallium, underscored the importance of communion in the Church.