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Papal condolences after Lisbon streetcar disaster

September 04, 2025

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CWN Editor's Note: Pope Leo XIV sent a message of sympathy to Cardinal Rui Manuel Sousa Valerio, the Patriarch of Lisbon, after a streetcar crash on September 3 that killed at least seventeen people and left others seriously injured.

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