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Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

Bassem Mroue | Crux

A man with his wife and two of his brides walk, during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

With address of polygamy, Vatican flunks early test of synodality

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Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez delivers his speech during a mass on the sixth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 1, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican answers African bishops concerned about polygamy with document praising monogamous marriage

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Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, August 6, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

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Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in the town of Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

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People who were kidnapped in a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kabuna, Nigeria, on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerian rights group links surge in violence to Vatican’s ‘inconsistent’ narrative

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The Cathedral of the Holy Cross over the Waters in Cádiz, Spain. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

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