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Kommetjie resident honours new pope with symbolic hike

Cape Argus

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May 14, 2025

AS CATHOLICS around the world welcomed Pope Leo XIV, one resident marked the moment in a deeply personal way by hiking up Kommetjie Mountain with a Vatican City flag in hand.

- ERIN CARELSE

Kommetjie resident honours new pope with symbolic hike

Jason Scott, 21, a Kommetjie-based Catholic writer and contributing author to The Southern Cross Magazine, made the solitary ascent on May 9 as a tribute to the newly elected pope.

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