
Monday June 22, 2026, Cardinal Francesco Montenegro celebrated his 80th birthday. Born in Messina, Sicily, where he was ordained a priest in 1969, the man with a social fiber welcomed Pope Francis on the island of Lampedusa in July 2013, for his first trip outside Rome. This island, symbol of the perilous migratory crossings in the Mediterranean, where Leo
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