Noma Smothers glanced at her phone as she sat in the family van with her daughter, Mia, a freshman at Mercy High School in Baltimore. Just moments earlier, they had been joking about the slim chances of Mia being chosen to ask a question of Pope Leo XIV during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, a four-day gathering of 15,000 young Catholics from across the country, running Nov. 20-23.
Now the email on Noma’s screen confirmed what seemed like would have been next to impossible: https://catholicreview.org/mercy-high-school-freshman-set-to-ask-question-of-pope-leo-xiv/ Mercy High School, Baltimore Archdiocese of Baltimore Catholic Schools

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Mercy High School freshman Mia Smothers has been chosen to ask a question of Pope Leo XIV during the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, a four-day gathering of 15,000 young Catholics from across the country, running Nov. 20-23.