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Pope, Herzog discuss antisemitism, peace in phone call

Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo makes Vogue top 50 ‘best dressed’ list for 2025

Dec 16
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This image released by Netflix shows Josh O'Connor, left, and Daniel Craig in a scene from "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery."(Credit: John Wilson/Netflix via AP.)

The latest ‘Knives Out’ film takes place in the Court of the Gentiles

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks in Brussels on March 23, 2023. (Credit: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP.)

Spanish government clashes publicly with Church hierarchy

Dec 16
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An 82-foot fir tree from the Ultimo valley in South Tyrol, Italy, is lit up as Christmas tree together with a crib in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Vatican unveils Nativity scene, lights Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square

Dec 16
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Pope, Herzog discuss antisemitism, peace in phone call

Dec 17
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Leo condemns large, ‘out of control’ investment portfolios

Dec 17
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Burkhard Scheffler, second from right, a homeless man who died from the cold in 2022 on the edge of St. Peter's Square, is portrayed as St. Peter in a painting by German artist Michael Triegel and exposed in the chapel of the Teutonic College at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Church altar featuring homeless man goes on display a stone’s throw from his grave at the Vatican

Dec 17
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Father Julio Lancellotti hands food to a homeless person in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 3, 2020. (Credit: Andre Penner/AP.)

Brazilian cardinal orders a popular Catholic priest to go offline following right-wing attacks

Dec 17
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