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Pope opens tenth anniversary conference on predecessor’s controversial exhortation
Pope Leo XIV in Paul VI Hall on Oct. 7, 2026.

Pope opens tenth anniversary conference on predecessor’s controversial exhortation

In all, nearly 200 people – bishops, experts, and laity – are taking part in the gathering from Oct. 7 to 14, organized by the Dicastery for Laity, Family, and Life and the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.

  • Oct 8
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Archdiocese of St. Louis sues federal government

  • Oct 8
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Pope Leo XIV praying at the tomb of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy, Nov. 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)
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Former Bishop of Broome Christopher Alan Saunders arrives at the West Australian District Court in Perth, Australia, on Aug. 11, 2026. (Credit: Aaron Bunch/AAP Image via AP.)

Former Australian Catholic bishop sentenced for abusing Indigenous men

  • Oct 7
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Flamenco singer Fabiola Pérez, known as “La Fabi”, performs on a stage next to the Triana Bridge during a concert organized as part of the Seville Flamenco Bienal in Seville, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Pope Leo said the music has a ‘creative spirit’: Flamenco’s heart-wrenching wail captured in images

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Priest in Northern Ireland pleads guilty to 109 sex offenses

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File photo of Pope Leo XIV in prayer. (Credit: Vatican Media.)
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Former Bishop of Broome Christopher Alan Saunders arrives at the West Australian District Court in Perth, Australia, on Aug. 11, 2026. (Credit: Aaron Bunch/AAP Image via AP.)

Former Australian Catholic bishop sentenced for abusing Indigenous men

  • Oct 7
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Flamenco singer Fabiola Pérez, known as “La Fabi”, performs on a stage next to the Triana Bridge during a concert organized as part of the Seville Flamenco Bienal in Seville, Spain, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. (Credit: Emilio Morenatti/AP.)

Pope Leo said the music has a ‘creative spirit’: Flamenco’s heart-wrenching wail captured in images

  • Oct 7
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Pope Francis’s diaries to be published next month, revealing reflections on Vatican years

  • Oct 5
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A new Supreme Court term begins with cases on climate change, immigration and gun rights

  • Oct 5
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Wagging tails fill a Philippine church where priests bless pets for St. Francis feast

  • Oct 5
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Scotland’s Catholic bishops decry Green Party abortion push

  • Oct 4
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Premium article: As annual blessing of animals takes place, some wonder: Will my pet go to heaven?

  • Oct 3
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MTP Kit containing one mifepristone and four misoprostol plus a blister strip of 10 extra miso. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

‘Give the money to struggling mothers’: Bishop slams Spain’s pro-abortion campaign

  • Oct 2
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Father Giacomo Costa, consultor of the General Secretariat of the Synod, from left, Gabriella Gambino, undersecretary of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, and Orietta Rachele Grazioli, a professor of canon and comparative family law, attend a news conference presenting Pope Leo XIV's meeting with the heads of the Eastern Churches and the presidents of the Episcopal Conferences, at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo seeks status update of Francis’s divisive look at divorced and remarried Catholics

  • Oct 2
  • Nicole Winfield

Our Lady of Aparecida emerges as key issue in race for Brazil’s presidency

  • Oct 2
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Pete Hegseth creates a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to him

  • Oct 2
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  • Oct 2
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Pope Leo XIV praying at the tomb of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy, Nov. 20, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Pope Leo says German far right’s views on Christianity ‘not authentic’

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Leo XIV to human traffickers: ‘Repent!’

  • Jun 12
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Pope’s 2027 Peace Day message to focus on ‘disarming technology’

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  • Aug 9
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  • Oct 5
  • Hillel Italie
The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Sept. 29, 2026. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP.)

A new Supreme Court term begins with cases on climate change, immigration and gun rights

  • Oct 5
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Pet owners stand in a queue to receive holy water sprinkled by a priest on pet dogs and cats during an animal blessing rites at the Malate Church in Manila, Philippines, Sunday, October. 4, 2026. (Credit: Joeal Calupitan/AP.)

Wagging tails fill a Philippine church where priests bless pets for St. Francis feast

  • Oct 5
  • Joeal Calupitan, 
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Scotland’s Catholic bishops decry Green Party abortion push

  • Oct 4
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At least 17, most of them Catholic pilgrims, killed in a road crash on a highway in Kenya

  • Oct 3
  • Andrew Kasuku
Dolly the sheep dog rests in her home in Leicester, England. (Credit: Father Johannes Arens.)

Premium article: As annual blessing of animals takes place, some wonder: Will my pet go to heaven?

  • Oct 3
  • Charles Collins

‘Give the money to struggling mothers’: Bishop slams Spain’s pro-abortion campaign

  • Oct 2
  • Fionn Shiner

Pope Leo seeks status update of Francis’s divisive look at divorced and remarried Catholics

  • Oct 2
  • Nicole Winfield

Our Lady of Aparecida emerges as key issue in race for Brazil’s presidency

  • Oct 2
  • Eduardo Campos Lima

Pete Hegseth creates a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to him

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