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Leave room for God, Pope Leo says at General Audience

María Teresa Hernández | Crux

Pope Leo XIV explained that love is “not the result of chance, but of a conscious choice” during his General Audience on Aug. 6, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Leave room for God, Pope Leo says at General Audience

Aug 6
Crux Staff

Father Carol Tchinda Nguito. (Credit: Mamfe Diocese.)

Cameroonian priest remembered as ‘hero’ after drowning death

Aug 6
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Japanese Emperor Naruhito, center, and Empress Masako bow in front of the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombing as they visit the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Thursday, June 19, 2025. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui is at left. (Credit: Kai Naito/Kyodo News via AP.)

A world without nuclear weapons is needed, Japanese cardinal says

Aug 5
Nirmala Carvalho

Congestion at a market in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Pan-African Congress seeks hopeful path for Africa’s Church

Aug 5
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Children dressed in feather costumes attend a Mass celebrating Saint Francisco Solano at his namesake chapel in Emboscada, Paraguay, Thursday, July 24, 2025. Catholic parishioners in Paraguay don bird-like costumes and parade the streets to honor the 16th century saint said to possess miraculous powers. (Credit: Jorge Saenz/AP.)

Despite rainy weather, Catholics in a Paraguayan town dress as birds to honor their patron saint

Jul 25
María Teresa Hernández,
Associated Press

From left, nuns Alejandra Jaime, 39, Maria Ines Maldonado, 76, Maria Auxiliadora Estrada, 59, and Patricia Marin, 28, store fritters with Christmas figures in clear plastic bags for sale at the Convent of the Mothers Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament in Mexico City, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (Credit: Ginnette Riquelme/AP.)

Convent-made delicacies, a Christmas favorite, help monks and nuns win fans and pay the bills

Dec 18, 2023
Giovanna Dell'Orto,
María Teresa Hernández

Fear, anxiety follow Nicaraguan faith leaders into exile

Mar 9, 2023
María Teresa Hernández

In Mexico, Day of the Dead is actually a celebration of life

Oct 30, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Oldest public library in the Americas has Catholic origins

Oct 9, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Mexico nuns’ culinary innovations live on in storied cuisine

Oct 1, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Quake-hit Mexico church with iconic Virgin image gets rehab

Aug 29, 2022
María Teresa Hernández

Explaining the tension between Nicaragua and the Catholic Church

Aug 15, 2022
Gabriela Selser,
María Teresa Hernández

Pope Leo giving the group of Egyptian pilgrims his blessing in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 8, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo meets with pilgrims after Egyptian girl dies of heart failure during Jubilee

Aug 2
Crux Staff

Archbishop Michael McGovern of Omaha is installed on May 8, 2025. (Credit: Archdiocese of Omaha.)

Omaha Archbishop McGovern says Pope Leo’s Chicago home plays important role

Aug 1
Charles Collins

A faithful throws a keffiyeh as Pope Leo XIV arrives for a Mass with young people participating in the Youths Jubilee at the Tor Vergata field in Rome, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV tells 1 million Catholic youths that they are ‘the sign a different world is possible’

Aug 3
Colleen Barry,
Paolo Santalucia, Associated Press

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The spiritual life involves an on-going battle within ourselves

Aug 3
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby