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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 14: Rinky Hijikata of Australia plays a backhand against Mitchell Krueger of the United States in the Men’s Singles First Round match during day three of the 2025 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on January 14, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

The Aussie tennis star who unwittingly became part of papal history

Australian Open men’s doubles champion Rinky Hijikata found himself in Rome during a particularly momentous weekend.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook

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The ascension of Pope Leo XIV means that President Donald Trump is no longer the most famous American in the world.

Thanks to the Pope, Trump is no longer the most important American in the world

When you believe the success of your religion depends on the success of a politician, it’s only a matter of time before politics becomes your religion.

  • David French
The Chicago White Sox honour Pope Leo XIV on the scoreboard before a baseball game.

The unassuming parish where a future pope was once an altar boy

Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which baseball team he supported.

  • Michael Koziol
The new pontiff's voice rang out from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica to an estimated 100,000 worshippers below on Sunday. (Vatican News)
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Pope Leo XIV sings the Regina Caeli to a massive crowd

The new pontiff's voice rang out from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica to an estimated 100,000 worshippers below on Sunday. (Vatican News)

The Pope sang the Regina Caeli prayer.

‘I carry in my heart the suffering’: New pope’s plea for peace before 100,000 pilgrims

In his first Sunday address as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV appealed for a ceasefire in Gaza, peace in Ukraine, and applauded the tentative truce between India and Pakistan.

  • Rob Harris
Then cardinal Robert Prevost at the funeral for Pope Francis in April.

Inside the conclave: How a quiet coalition delivered the church Pope Leo XIV

The selection of Robert Prevost surprised outside observers. But as other contenders fell away, one after another, the Chicago cardinal made quiet sense to those locked in the room.

  • Rob Harris
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Pope Leo XIV celebrating mass at Sydney’s Collaroy Beach in 2009.

Loves Tim Tams, hates Vegemite: The day Pope Leo said Mass at a Sydney beach

The children at one Sydney Catholic school think it’s “pretty cool” that the new Pope once graced their halls.

  • Josefine Ganko
Pope Leo XIV concelebrates Mass with the College of Cardinals inside the Sistine Chapel.

Pope Leo XIV warns of ‘desperate’ global loss of faith in inaugural Mass

The newly elected leader of the Catholic Church also said Jesus couldn’t be reduced to a type of “superman”, in an apparent message to evangelical Christians.

  • Rob Harris
John Prevost says his brother initially thought there was “no way” he would become Pope.

‘This cannot be possible’: How John found out his brother was now the Pope

While talking to journalists, John Prevost realised he had missed several calls from his brother, so he gave the new Pope a call back.

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Pope Leo

The speech, the clothes, the name: Three clues about new Pope’s leadership

Although Leo follows in the tradition of Francis, he signalled he is a new, and different, pope.

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