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Peruvians to celebrate Leo’s birthday with beloved local devotion

Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer from his window at the Vatican, August 10, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Peruvians to celebrate Leo’s birthday with beloved local devotion

Sep 12
Elise Ann Allen

St Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Catholic pilgrim murdered in Pakistan

Sep 10
Nirmala Carvalho

A protester wearing flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman shouts slogans at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal’s government’s various ministries and offices during a protest against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Credit: Niranjan Shrestha/AP.)

Priest said Catholics in Nepal are hoping for an end to violence

Sep 10
Nirmala Carvalho

A Cameroonian policeman and a gendarme patrol in Lysoka, near Buea, in Cameroon’s Anglophone South-West region, October 07, 2018. (Credit: Voice of America.)

Cameroon bishop laments spiraling violence in Anglophone regions

Sep 10
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Pope Leo XIV and Crux's Elise Ann Allen speak at the Palazzo Sant'Uffizio at the Vatican on Jul 30, 2025. (Credit: CruxNow.com)

Leo gives first exclusive interview to Crux correspondent for new bio

Sep 8
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Maybe we should stop waiting for real pope to emerge from under careful facade

Sep 7
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Pope Leo XIV at his general audience in the Vatican on Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Traditionalists rejoice that top US cardinal allowed to celebrate old Latin Mass at St. Peter’s

Sep 9
Nicole Winfield,
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Pope makes saints of youth icons who capture cornerstones of his agenda

Sep 7
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