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May 2025
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Pope Leo XIV's First Five Days: 6 Key Le...

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What can we learn from Pope Leo XIV's first five days? Dr. Sri reflects on the Pope's inaugural days and shares 6 key lessons from the Pope's early messages and homilies that we can all learn from and apply to our own spiritual lives.

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Pope Leo XIV introduced a core framework for understanding salvation—Jesus as the gift and the path.
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