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

‘This brought me reconciliation’: Abuse survivors praise Sunday’s meeting with Pope Leo

Seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse praised a meeting with Pope Leo XIV.

  • Sep 28
  • Crux Now Staff
Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nation headquarters in New York on Sep. 26, 2026. (Credit: Heather Khalifa/AP.)
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  • Sep 28
  • Charles Collins
Pope Leo XIV is congratulated by French President Emmanuel Macron, left, after his speech at the meeting At the Roots of Europe for Peace and Unity with, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, in Metz, France. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo wraps up France trip by urging Europe to blunt ‘desire for domination’ driving today’s wars

  • Sep 28
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Fathers Ubaldo Marchioni, Elia Comini and Martino Capelli. (Credit: Archdiocese of Bologna.)

Three Italian priests killed by Nazis beatified in Bologna

  • Sep 28
  • Crux Now Staff
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  • Sep 28
  • Eduardo Campos Lima
The U.S. Supreme Court on Sep. 25, 2026, in Washington. (Credit: Mariam Zuhaib/AP.)

Man gets 6 years in prison for taking explosives to church hosting annual Red Mass for justices

  • Sep 28
  • Michael Kunzelman
Aberdeen Town House, the administrative Headquarters of Aberdeen City Council in Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Church leaders in Scotland want city of Aberdeen to provide a Catholic high school

  • Sep 28
  • Charles Collins
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Three Italian priests killed by Nazis beatified in Bologna

  • Sep 28
  • Crux Now Staff
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  • Sep 28
  • Eduardo Campos Lima
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  • Sep 28
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  • Sep 28
  • Charles Collins

Church leaders in Scotland want city of Aberdeen to provide a Catholic high school

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  • Sep 27
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Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists aboard the flight from Metz, France, to Rome, at the end of his four-day visit to France, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP.)

Contradicting Trump, Pope Leo says artificial intelligence safety concerns not ‘fake news’

  • Sep 28
  • Associated Press
Pope Leo XIV, center, arrives, with, from left, Christian Krieger, president of the Protestant Federation of France, Bishop Dimitrios (Ploumis), the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of France, Haïm Korsia, Chief Rabbi of France, President of the French Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Chems-eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Anthony Boussemart, representing French Buddhists, and Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, to attend an interreligious meeting at the Robert Schuman Convention Centre, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, in Metz, France. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope urges religious leaders in France to preach peace as he recalls foundations of European unity

  • Sep 28
  • Nicole Winfield
Bishop Fulton Sheen in New York City on Oct. 26, 1966. (Credit: Associated Press.)

Premium article: The ‘great enigma’ of modern media’s patron, Blessed Fulton Sheen

  • Sep 27
  • Charles Collins
Members of Ethiopian Federal police march band look on during celebrations for the Orthodox holiday of Meskel, an annual holiday celebrating the discovery of the True Cross in the fourth century by the Roman Empress Helena, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Credit: Amanuel Sileshi/AP.)

Ethiopians celebrate Meskel holiday with pomp, despite recent fighting in Tigray

  • Sep 27
  • Samuel Getachew
Pope Leo XIV prays at the Grotto of the Apparitions of Massabielle, in Lourdes, France, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Credit: Laurent Cipriani/AP.)

Pope Leo in Lourdes: What to know about one of Catholicism’s most famous pilgrimage sites

  • Sep 27
  • Samuel Petrequin
In this handout photo provided by Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV prays at the Grotto of the Apparitions of Massabielle, in Lourdes, France, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media via AP.)

Pope urges protection of weakest at French shrine at Lourdes known for miraculous cures

  • Sep 27
  • Nicole Winfield
Leo XIV greets people lining the Place de la Concorde in Paris on Sunday, 26 Sept. 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo draws 800,000 people to central Paris for open-air Mass on iconic square

  • Sep 27
  • Nicole Winfield, John Petrequin, Sylvie Corbet and John Leicester
Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by Archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich, left, Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, second from right, and Institut Catholique de Paris Rector Emmanuel Petit as he arrives to meet with members of the provincial synodal assembly, catechumens and neophytes at the ICP in Paris, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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

  • Sep 26
  • Nicole Winfield

Pope Leo XIV declines to credit himself for White Sox playoff return

  • Sep 26
  • Associated Press

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

  • Sep 25
  • Nicole Winfield

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  • Sep 25
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Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nation headquarters in New York on Sep. 26, 2026. (Credit: Heather Khalifa/AP.)

Premium article: At the United Nations, the Vatican rejects ‘The Art of The Deal’

  • Sep 28
  • Charles Collins
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Premium article: The ‘great enigma’ of modern media’s patron, Blessed Fulton Sheen

  • Sep 27
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  • Sep 20
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Pope Leo XIV meets with participants of a conference organized by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints and the Dicastery's Commission for New Martyrs in the Vatican on Sep. 16, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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  • Sep 18
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A person takes a picture of a portrait of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Regensburg, Germany, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Credit: Armin Weigl/dpa via AP.)

Premium article: Pope Leo approves note on Vatican II document on interreligious dialogue quoting Benedict XVI’s controversial Regensburg speech

  • Sep 16
  • Charles Collins

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Aberdeen Town House, the administrative Headquarters of Aberdeen City Council in Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Church leaders in Scotland want city of Aberdeen to provide a Catholic high school

  • Sep 28
  • Charles Collins
Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

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  • Sep 11
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Pope returns to Rome on Spanish royal jet after tech issue grounds plane

  • Jun 12
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Leo XIV to human traffickers: ‘Repent!’

  • Jun 12
  • Elise Ann Allen

In Canary Islands, pope puts a spotlight on tragedies of migration

  • Jun 11
  • Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo inaugurates new tower of Spain’s famed Sagrada Familia

  • Jun 10
  • Elise Ann Allen

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Pope appeals for persecuted Palestinian Christians as violence continues

  • Aug 16
  • Christopher R. Altieri

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

  • Aug 11
  • Christopher R. Altieri

Pope appeals for peace in Sudan as siege of key city intensifies

  • Aug 9
  • Christopher R. Altieri

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  • Jul 23
  • Christopher R. Altieri

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  • Jul 22
  • Christopher R. Altieri

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  3. Tensions run high in Northern Ireland after contentious march given go-ahead

  4. Pope blasts assisted suicide as ‘false compassion’ at French shrine known for miraculous cures

  5. By the Numbers: Pope Leo XIV’s open-air Mass in Paris draws many more than expected

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists aboard the flight from Metz, France, to Rome, at the end of his four-day visit to France, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026. (Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/Pool Photo via AP.)

Contradicting Trump, Pope Leo says artificial intelligence safety concerns not ‘fake news’

  • Sep 28
  • Associated Press
Pope Leo XIV, center, arrives, with, from left, Christian Krieger, president of the Protestant Federation of France, Bishop Dimitrios (Ploumis), the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of France, Haïm Korsia, Chief Rabbi of France, President of the French Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Chems-eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, Anthony Boussemart, representing French Buddhists, and Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad, prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, to attend an interreligious meeting at the Robert Schuman Convention Centre, Monday, Sept. 28, 2026, in Metz, France. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope urges religious leaders in France to preach peace as he recalls foundations of European unity

  • Sep 28
  • Nicole Winfield
Members of Ethiopian Federal police march band look on during celebrations for the Orthodox holiday of Meskel, an annual holiday celebrating the discovery of the True Cross in the fourth century by the Roman Empress Helena, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Credit: Amanuel Sileshi/AP.)

Ethiopians celebrate Meskel holiday with pomp, despite recent fighting in Tigray

  • Sep 27
  • Samuel Getachew
Pope Leo XIV prays at the Grotto of the Apparitions of Massabielle, in Lourdes, France, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Credit: Laurent Cipriani/AP.)

Pope Leo in Lourdes: What to know about one of Catholicism’s most famous pilgrimage sites

  • Sep 27
  • Samuel Petrequin
In this handout photo provided by Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV prays at the Grotto of the Apparitions of Massabielle, in Lourdes, France, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media via AP.)

Pope urges protection of weakest at French shrine at Lourdes known for miraculous cures

  • Sep 27
  • Nicole Winfield
Leo XIV greets people lining the Place de la Concorde in Paris on Sunday, 26 Sept. 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Leo draws 800,000 people to central Paris for open-air Mass on iconic square

  • Sep 27
  • Nicole Winfield, John Petrequin, Sylvie Corbet and John Leicester

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

  • Sep 26
  • Nicole Winfield

Pope Leo XIV declines to credit himself for White Sox playoff return

  • Sep 26
  • Associated Press

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

  • Sep 25
  • Nicole Winfield

Premium article: Euthanasia of Dutch child, nearly 2, is ‘mercy’ being used to justify questionable actions, cardinal tells Crux Now

  • Sep 25
  • Fionn Shiner