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File photo of San Francisco de Asis Parish in Naga City. (Credit: San Francisco de Asis Parish via CBCP News.)

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The Oxford Botanic Garden in England. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

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Pope Leo XIV meets with Archbishop Thibault Verny in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

French archbishop appointed head of Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors

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Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria, with priests. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Pope Leo XIV meets with Archbishop Thibault Verny in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

French archbishop appointed head of Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors

Jul 5
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Pope Leo XIV speaks to teachers from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, along with young people from Denmark in the Vatican on July 5, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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A mine worker holds bits of coltan ore in the mining town of Rubaya in the Democratic Republic of Congo on May 9, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

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Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto, Nigeria, with priests. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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