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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, 2025
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

Christian pilgrims walk past the site where a nun was attacked by a man last Wednesday, after visiting the Cenacle, traditionally believed to be the site of the Last Supper, in Jerusalem, Friday, May 1, 2026. (Credit: Leo Correa/AP.)

Jerusalem court acquits a man indicted in nun attack, orders psychiatric care

Aug 28
Giovanna Dell'Orto

People pray at a memorial at Annunciation Catholic Church the day after a school shooting, Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis. (Credit: Abbie Parr/AP.)

A year after Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, documents detail swift response, little on motive

Aug 28
Claudia Lauer,
Mark Vancleave, Scott Bauer

Father Nikolaos Vlavianos stands beside an icon of Saint Fanourios, known in Greek as "The Revealer," at the Church of St. Fanourios in Athens, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Credit: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP.)

For everything from troubled hearts to lost keys, Greeks bake cakes for a wish-granting saint

Aug 28
Theodora Tongas,
Derek Gatopoulos

Bishop John Sherrington is the Lead Bishop for Life Issues in England and Wales. (Credit: Diocese of Westminster.)

Premium article: British Archbishop to Crux Now: Victims of domestic abuse could be coerced into assisted suicide

Aug 27
Fionn Shiner

Record-high number of assisted suicides in California

Aug 27
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Vatican’s ‘Foreign Minister’ tells Moscow to end the war in Ukraine

Aug 27
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Caritas assessing after flash floods kill more than 100 in Nepal and China

Aug 27
Nirmala Carvalho

Bishop John Sherrington is the Lead Bishop for Life Issues in England and Wales. (Credit: Diocese of Westminster.)

Premium article: British Archbishop to Crux Now: Victims of domestic abuse could be coerced into assisted suicide

Aug 27
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