Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

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Survivor letters frame challenge facing Leo XIV on abuse and coverup

Rome conference highlights crucial safeguarding role of women, as Pope Leo XIV begins his pontificate.

Jun 22
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A solution may happen for the liturgical crisis in the Syro-Malabar Church in India

Jun 21
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A van displaying a sign passes Big Ben as demonstrators both for and against assisted dying hold banners outside Parliament in London, Friday, June 20, 2025, as British lawmakers are set to vote Friday on whether to back a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales. (Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP.)

Bishops protest as UK Parliament votes to legalize assisted suicide

Jun 21
Charles Collins

Signs are seen supporting refugees as Tshishiku Henry, a former refugee and Washington Delegate for the Refugee Conference, speaks in Seattle, Washington, on Feb. 25, 2025. (Credit: Ryan Sun/AP.)

Catholic official says refugees don’t leave their homes unless they have no choice

Jun 21
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

Jun 21
Charles Collins

A solution may happen for the liturgical crisis in the Syro-Malabar Church in India

Jun 21
Nirmala Carvalho

Bishops protest as UK Parliament votes to legalize assisted suicide

Jun 21
Charles Collins

Catholic official says refugees don’t leave their homes unless they have no choice

Jun 21
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Catholic official says refugees don’t leave their homes unless they have no choice

Jun 21
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo delivers fiery defense of freedom of the press, supports Peru journalists

Jun 21
Elise Ann Allen

Christian wedding party attacked in central India

Jun 20
Nirmala Carvalho

Armed groups in DR Congo still recruit children to their ranks

Jun 20
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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

Jun 19
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Online gambling ‘wrecking lives’ of poor Filipinos, says Cardinal David

Jun 19
Joseph San Mateo

UN troops deploy outside Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 24, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Congo bishops denounce claim by political leader Church involved in conspiracy

Jun 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

California Highway Patrol officers arrest two men after a dispersal order during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Credit: Ethan Swope/AP.)

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV reflects on the paralytic man being healed in the Gospel of St. John in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Supporters hold a sign with an image of former President Evo Morales and a message that reads in Spanish, “Without Evo, there are no elections,” during a protest demanding he be allowed to compete in the upcoming presidential election, near the Supreme Electoral Tribunal in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, May 29, 2025. (Credit: Juan Karita/AP.)

Church condemns ‘spiral of violence’ in Bolivia

Jun 18
Eduardo Campos Lima

Entrance of Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, South Africa. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Church in South Africa remembers history of discrimination in nation

Jun 18
Ngala Killian Chimtom

The Palace of Westminster, where the UK Parliament meets. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

British Parliament votes to decriminalize abortion

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Reviving tradition, Pope Leo to spend July break at Castel Gandolfo

Jun 17
John L. Allen Jr.

Bishops should be aware of the challenges posed by AI, Pope Leo says

Jun 17
Charles Collins

Israeli envoy defends Iran offensive, says pope can make a difference

Jun 17
Elise Ann Allen

Priest in Kerala, India, accused of molesting 16-year-old boy

Jun 17
Nirmala Carvalho

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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

Jun 19
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Online gambling ‘wrecking lives’ of poor Filipinos, says Cardinal David

Jun 19
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Congo bishops denounce claim by political leader Church involved in conspiracy

Jun 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Church condemns ‘spiral of violence’ in Bolivia

Jun 18
Eduardo Campos Lima

Church in South Africa remembers history of discrimination in nation

Jun 18
Ngala Killian Chimtom

British Parliament votes to decriminalize abortion

Jun 18
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Reviving tradition, Pope Leo to spend July break at Castel Gandolfo

Jun 17
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Bishops should be aware of the challenges posed by AI, Pope Leo says

Jun 17
Charles Collins

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May 9
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Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

Jun 21
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Bishops protest as UK Parliament votes to legalize assisted suicide

Jun 21
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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

Jun 19
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Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
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Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Jun 18
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Pope calls for peace, diplomacy in light of U.S. strikes on Iran

Jun 22
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Pope Leo XIV greets Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 12, 2025, during a meeting with representatives of the media who covered his election. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo delivers fiery defense of freedom of the press, supports Peru journalists

Jun 21
Elise Ann Allen

Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Yaron Sideman presents his credentials to Pope Francis. (Credit: Israeli Embassy to the Holy See.)

Israeli envoy defends Iran offensive, says pope can make a difference

Jun 17
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Pope Leo urges Chicago youth to be messengers of hope, peace

Jun 15
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Pope Leo XIV meets with Pontifical Representatives inside the Vatican's Apostolic Palace during the Jubilee for Papal Representatives June 10, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Leo with the curia will maintain Francis’s direction, but change the tone

Jun 11
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A woman holds a picture of Pope Francis reading in Italian “Farewell Francis, thank you His Holiness, today all the people cry for you” in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican after Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope Francis will be remembered for his concern over refugees and immigrants

Apr 21
John Lavenburg

Catholic Charities Western Washington CEO: Federal funding uncertainty ‘a big dilemma’

Mar 27
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Parishioners attend Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, May 8, 2022. According to a report released Thursday, April 13, 2023, by the Pew Research Center, Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow. (Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP.)

20 percent of adults have left their childhood religion in many countries, study shows

Mar 26
John Lavenburg

Religious freedom commission expresses ‘hope’ with Trump, cites Biden IRFA violation

Mar 26
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Prime Minister Mark Carney meets young members of the crowd during the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Montreal, Sunday March 16, 2025. (Credit: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP.)

Survivor letters frame challenge facing Leo XIV on abuse and coverup

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Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

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Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

A solution may happen for the liturgical crisis in the Syro-Malabar Church in India

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Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Church condemns ‘spiral of violence’ in Bolivia

Church in South Africa remembers history of discrimination in nation

British Parliament votes to decriminalize abortion

Reviving tradition, Pope Leo to spend July break at Castel Gandolfo

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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

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Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Church condemns ‘spiral of violence’ in Bolivia

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