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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

An estimated one million pilgrims came to Tor Vergata for the vigil in Rome on the evening of Aug. 2, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo warns against abuse of social media in speech to young pilgrims

Aug 3
Charles Collins

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
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A world without nuclear weapons is needed, Japanese cardinal says

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
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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

An estimated one million pilgrims came to Tor Vergata for the vigil in Rome on the evening of Aug. 2, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo warns against abuse of social media in speech to young pilgrims

Aug 3
Charles Collins

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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
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Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful at the end of the noon Angelus prayer in the square in front of the Apostolic Palace for in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo leaves Castel Gandolfo and returns to Vatican City

Jul 23
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Palestinians gather around the bodies of Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, his wife, his daughter, and his son-in-law, after they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on July 2, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem says war in Gaza is ‘inexcusable’

Jul 22
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A woman walks past Nigerian soldiers in Gwoza, Nigeria, on April 8, 2015. (Credit: Lekan Oyekanmi/AP.)

Nigeria is still imposing restrictions on religious freedom, U.S. agency says

Jul 22
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Taybeh, a town in the West Bank. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Christian leaders condemn violence by Israeli settlers on West Bank town

Jul 14
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The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP.)

U.S. Supreme Court says parents can opt kids out of pro-LGBT books at school

Jun 28
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Mass for the Church of Pope Leo XIV with the Cardinal Electors, and other Cardinals present in Rome, in the Sistine Chapel, May 9, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV notes even some baptized Christians ‘in state of practical atheism’

May 9
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View of a confessional in a church. (Credit: Pixabay.)

U.S. Justice Department says it will investigate Washington State law requiring violation of seal of confession

May 6
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American, Italian sites scramble to blame each other for fake news about Parolin

May 3
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