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Visiting Italian president, pope urges multilateralism, welcome of migrants

Visiting Italian president, pope urges multilateralism, welcome of migrants

In his first visit to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Pope Leo XIV called for care of migrants and creation, condemning low European birth rates, and making an appeal for the strengthening of multilateralism.

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Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, holding his wooden crozier, joins anti-corruption protesters wearing white at the Trillion Peso March in Quezon City, Philippines, Sept. 21, 2025. (Credit: Roy Lagarde/CBCP News.)

Catholic leaders urge Filipinos to wear white against corruption

Oct 14
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Venezuelan Catholics among those quietly celebrating Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado

Oct 14
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Vatican appoints judges to hear Rupnik case

Oct 13
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Pope Leo XIV: Catholics have opportunity to support foreign missions

Oct 13
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Oct 12
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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in the Vatican press office on Sept. 27, 2017. (Credit: Andrew Medechini/AP.)

Card. Tagle rebukes corrupt politicians in Philippines

Oct 12
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Vatican appoints judges to hear Rupnik case

Oct 13
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Pope Leo XIV: Catholics have opportunity to support foreign missions

Oct 13
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Fate of US citizen arrested in India uncertain

Oct 12
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Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle in the Vatican press office on Sept. 27, 2017. (Credit: Andrew Medechini/AP.)

Card. Tagle rebukes corrupt politicians in Philippines

Oct 12
Joseph San Mateo

Card. Tagle rebukes corrupt politicians in Philippines

Oct 12
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Pope: Marian spirituality inspires encounter, pursuit of justice

Oct 12
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Nigerian officials blast US lawmakers over claims of Christian persecution in Nigeria

Oct 11
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Religion may be rising among young people in Northern Ireland, says new poll

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Some assailants set off two cocktail explosions in quick succession at the main gate of the Holy Rosary Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 8, 2025. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Arrest made in attack on Catholic church in Bangladesh

Oct 11
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Pope tells consecrated men, women to continue path of synodality

Oct 11
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Brazil: Life week mobilizes Catholics, other Christians

Oct 10
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Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate

Oct 9
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Pope Leo XIV to USCCB Migrants chair: “I will stand with you.”

Oct 9
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Sudanese displaced families take shelter in a school after being evacuated by the Sudanese army from areas once controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Omdurman, Sudan, located across the Nile River from Khartoum, on March 23, 2025. (Credit: AP.)

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Oct 8
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Ecuador: Church groups accompany demonstrators amid tensions between president, Indigenous people

Oct 8
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Pope to visit Turkey, Lebanon in late November/early December

Oct 7
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For Pope Leo, once a missionary, always a missionary

Oct 7
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Filipino cardinal decries injustices against country’s Muslim minority

Oct 7
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Bangladesh laity charge Vatican’s Jubilee of Catechists celebrated only priests, religious

Oct 7
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Pope meets Peru cardinal who’s defied restrictions due to abuse allegation

Oct 6
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Some assailants set off two cocktail explosions in quick succession at the main gate of the Holy Rosary Church in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct. 8, 2025. (Credit: Stephan Uttom Rozario.)

Arrest made in attack on Catholic church in Bangladesh

Oct 11
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Pope tells consecrated men, women to continue path of synodality

Oct 11
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Brazil: Life week mobilizes Catholics, other Christians

Oct 10
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Leo XIV publishes first major document of pontificate

Oct 9
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Pope Leo XIV to USCCB Migrants chair: “I will stand with you.”

Oct 9
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Sudanese displaced families take shelter in a school after being evacuated by the Sudanese army from areas once controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Omdurman, Sudan, located across the Nile River from Khartoum, on March 23, 2025. (Credit: AP.)

Starvation as weapon in war-torn Sudan

Oct 8
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Ecuador: Church groups accompany demonstrators amid tensions between president, Indigenous people

Oct 8
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Pope to visit Turkey, Lebanon in late November/early December

Oct 7
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For Pope Leo, once a missionary, always a missionary

Oct 7
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Filipino cardinal decries injustices against country’s Muslim minority

Oct 7
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Unless you’re American, Pope’s comments on ‘pro-life’ were just common sense

Oct 5
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Rapid aging of society creates potential ‘boom cycle’ for Catholicism

Oct 4
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Pope Leo channels his inner Benedict XVI by extolling ‘healthy secularism’

Sep 30
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Expert says Pope’s Crux interview reflects ‘authenticity’ in dealing with sex abuse

Sep 29
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Sep 28
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Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, an Irish a major place of pilgrimage. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Religion may be rising among young people in Northern Ireland, says new poll

Oct 11
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Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025. (Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP.)

Pope Leo says ‘violence, forced exile, or revenge’ not a solution in Holy Land

Sep 22
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Pope Leo XIV with participants of a Jubilee Meeting organized by the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopal Council (CELAM) on the future of the family in the Vatican on Sep. 19, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo tells Jubilee attendees to protect the family

Sep 19
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Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug, 23, 2025. (Credit: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP.)

British cardinal joins Church leaders in calling for an end to the war in Gaza

Sep 19
Charles Collins

Police outside The Iona Institute headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. (Credit: Iona Institute.)

Conservative Christian organization faces anthrax scare in Ireland

Sep 19
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Visiting Italian president, pope urges multilateralism, welcome of migrants

Oct 14
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Vatican appoints judges to hear Rupnik case

Oct 13
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Pope Leo XIV: Catholics have opportunity to support foreign missions

Oct 13
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Pope: Marian spirituality inspires encounter, pursuit of justice

Oct 12
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Pope tells consecrated men, women to continue path of synodality

Oct 11
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On purpose or not, Pope grabs third rail of US, Catholic politics with both hands

Oct 2
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Cardinal Dolan on Pope Leo: ‘A successor, not a continuator’ of Francis

Sep 7
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Leo XIV: Leveraging the Church’s ‘expertise in humanity’

Sep 1
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Pope Leo XIV blesses members of the St. Andrew School of Evangelization on August 29, 2025 (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo is showing his Augustinian roots when speaking politics

Aug 31
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New book finds strong reason for hope despite Church’s receding footprint

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