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Pope, Herzog discuss antisemitism, peace in phone call

Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo makes Vogue top 50 ‘best dressed’ list for 2025

Dec 16
Elise Ann Allen

Aerial view of Djibo town, Burkina Faso, Feb. 18, 2021. (Credit: Sam Mednick/AP.)

Burkina Faso has become a ‘Church on the move,’ says Catholic priest

Dec 17
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks in Brussels on March 23, 2023. (Credit: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP.)

Spanish government clashes publicly with Church hierarchy

Dec 16
Fionn Shiner

Leo condemns large, ‘out of control’ investment portfolios

Dec 17
Elise Ann Allen

Pope, Herzog discuss antisemitism, peace in phone call

Dec 17
Elise Ann Allen

Leo condemns large, ‘out of control’ investment portfolios

Dec 17
Elise Ann Allen

Burkhard Scheffler, second from right, a homeless man who died from the cold in 2022 on the edge of St. Peter's Square, is portrayed as St. Peter in a painting by German artist Michael Triegel and exposed in the chapel of the Teutonic College at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone’s throw from his grave at the Vatican

Dec 17
Geir Moulson,
Nicole Winfield, Associated Press

Father Julio Lancellotti hands food to a homeless person in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 3, 2020. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Brazilian cardinal orders a popular Catholic priest to go offline following right-wing attacks

Dec 17
Mauricio Savarese,
Associated Press

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A screen flags the news of new Pope Leo XIV during the second round match between Fabio Fognini of Italy and Jacob Fearnley at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome on May 8, 2025. (Credit: Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP.)

Pope Leo XIV is a tennis player. Tsitsipas would be happy to hit some balls with him

May 11
Andrew Dampf,
Associated Press

Vatican cyclist spreading the pope’s message at worlds

Sep 23, 2022
Andrew Dampf

For Napoli fans, Catholicism and soccer battle for religious top spot

Feb 21, 2020
Andrew Dampf