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Pope encourages Catholics in deeply secular France to persevere as Paris shuts down for huge Mass

Category: Vatican | Crux

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Pope Leo XIV talks to journalists aboard the papal flight from Rome to Paris, Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, during his apostolic journey to France. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV affirms need for media to cover public figures when asked about Trump ban

Sep 25
Nicole Winfield

A banner announces the upcoming visit of Pope Leo XIV in Metz eastern France, Tuesday, Sept 15, 2026 as part of his official visit to France from Sept. 26 to 28. (Credit: Pascal Bastien/AP.)

Pope heads to secular France with an appeal to respect the dignity of every human life

Sep 25
Nicole Winfield,
Sylvie Corbet

Thousands of people gathered in the Dome at America's Center in St. Louis for the beatification Mass of Fulton J. Sheen.

Fulton J. Sheen declared Blessed in St. Louis

Sep 25
Crux Now Staff

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd at the weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sep. 23, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo remembers Archbishop Fulton Sheen the day before media pioneer’s beatification

Sep 23
Crux Now Staff

Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter’ s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope will retrace his missionary footsteps in Peru and finally visit Argentina in November

Sep 22
Nicole Winfield,
Isabel Debre, Franklin Briceno

People enter the Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire basilica in Lourdes, southwestern France, Tuesday Sept. 8, 2026 . (Credit: Fred Scheiber/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV in France will find a secular country at odds with Catholic teaching on life

Sep 22
Nicole Winfield

Pope Leo XIV prays the Angelus on Sunday, 20 Sept. 2026, in the Vatican. (Image ©Vatican Media)

Pope appeals for aid to drought and violence-stricken Somalia

Sep 20
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Pope Leo publishes first book of his pre-papal writing

Sep 15
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Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives at the Vatican Library on the day of his 71st birthday, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, during a press preview of the exhibit ""AQVA, Catastrophe and Wonder," which will be open to the public from Sept. 25 through May 14, 2027. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope celebrates his 71st birthday but it’s Vatican employees who get the gift

Sep 15
Nicole Winfield

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims and tourists at the Angelus on Sunday, 13 Sept. 2026 in the Vatican. (Image ©Vatican Media)

Pope commemorates 9/11 attacks with prayers for peace and for those who died

Sep 13
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