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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nicole Winfield

Pope Leo XIV marks feast day as Vatican launches campaign to help erase its $57-68 million deficit

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Pope Leo XIV on Sunday celebrated a special feast day traditionally used by the Catholic Church to drum up donations from the faithful, with the Vatican under the first American pope rolling out a new campaign to urge ordinary Catholics to help bail out the deficit-ridden Holy See.

Leo celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, marking the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul and repeated his message calling for unity and communion among all Christians.

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