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Pope inflight says fears over Islam often a political maneuver against migrants

A Nativity scene containing characters with cloth faces, by Belgian artist Victoria-Maria Geyer, is displayed in a white tent in Brussels, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Sylvain Plazy/AP.)

A controversial infant Jesus is stolen from a Belgian Nativity scene

Dec 2
Sylvain Plazy,
Associated Press

Auction officer Jean-Pierre Osenat gestures as the long-lost painting “Crucifixion of Jesus Christ” by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens was sold at auction for 2,3 million euros or $2.66 million in Versailles, west of Paris, Nov. 30, 2025. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million

Dec 1
Associated Press

A nun holds up a portrait of Pope Leo XIV where he will meet with bishops, priests, consecrated persons and pastoral workers at the Catholic basilica of Harissa, Lebanon Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

Pope in Lebanon prays for peace at tomb of saint revered by Christians and Muslims

Dec 1
Nicole Winfield,
Trisha Thomas, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV on the plane to Rome from Lebanon on Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/CruxNow.com)

Pope inflight says fears over Islam often a political maneuver against migrants

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV on the plane to Rome from Lebanon on Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/CruxNow.com)

Pope inflight says fears over Islam often a political maneuver against migrants

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

People wait for the arrival of Pope Leo XIV to visit the De la Croix hospital in Jal el Dib, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope bids farewell to Lebanon with call for end to armed conflict

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate Mass at Beirut’s waterfront. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope ends Mass with a call for peace

Dec 2
Associated Press

A group of nuns hold flags while waiting for the arrival of Pope Leo XVI to a meeting with bishops, clergy, religious and pastoral workers in Lebanon at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pastors in Lebanon hope papal visit will give boost to Christians’ civil rights

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

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Scout Troop 228 participates in the U.S. flag retirement ceremony for Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Church during the annual Patriots Day observance at the church in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (Credit: Krysta Fauria/AP.)

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Sep 20
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Then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick at St. Nereus and Achilleus Church in Rome on April 14, 2005. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

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