VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Mideast and eastern Europe that have been decimated by years of conflict and persecution. “The church needs you!” Leo told a Holy Year audience of eastern rite pilgrims. Eastern-rite Catholics accept the authority of the pope but…

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