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Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby meets with Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the then-Papal Nuncio, and his team on January 22, 2026, in the Pentagon. (Credit: Pentagon.)

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Pro-government demonstrators chant slogans as they hold Iranian flags and a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a gathering after announcement of a two-week ceasefire in the war with the United States and Israel, at the Enqelab-e-Eslami, or Islamic Revolution, Square, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. (Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP.)

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Pastors blessing Trump and asking God for war victory was shameful, says Spanish bishop

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Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David leads the Easter Vigil at San Roque Cathedral, Caloocan City, April 4, 2026. (Credit: San Roque Cathedral.)

In open letter, Asian cardinal warns Americans of ‘moral failure’ over Iran war

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Pa Chrysantus Nfor in the Nkwen precinct of Bamenda, Cameroon. (Credit: Facebook.)

97-year-old man ready for his third papal encounter in Cameroon

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Holy See Press Office. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Confessions of a ‘secret source’ from the Vatican

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Pope Leo XIV at his weekly General Audience in the Vatican on Jan. 7, 2026. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

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In this image from video provided by Just Like Me in April 2026, the company’s co-founder and investor Jeff Tinsley, bottom right, interacts with an AI-generated Jesus. (Credit: Just Like Me via AP.)

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