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Leo XIV meets global survivor advocacy group in Vatican

Leo XIV meets global survivor advocacy group in Vatican

Oct 21
Elise Ann Allen

Card. Kikuchi remembers Japanese PM Murayama

Oct 21
Nirmala Carvalho

Police guard outside Peruvian President Dina Boluarte's house on March 30, 2024. (Credit: Martin Mejia/AP.)

Senior churchman defends protestors in Peru as demonstrations intensify

Oct 20
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV appeals for peace in Myanmar

Oct 19
Crux Staff

Pope Leo XIV with Andrzej Michalski and Proton at the Vatican on Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

Oct 16
Crux Staff

Britain's Queen Camilla and King Charles III at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, on Sep. 17, 2025. (Credit: Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP.)

King Charles III’s visit to Vatican marks a historic step in path of unity between two churches

Oct 17
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV presides over a Rosary vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

Oct 16
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Leo XIV on World Mission Sunday: ‘Will the Son of Man find faith on Earth?’

Oct 19
Crux Staff

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Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral is seen with its spire surrounded by scaffolding Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023 in Paris. The restoration of Notre Dame hits a milestone Friday, Dec. 8, 2023: one year until the cathedral reopens its huge doors to the public. (Thibault Camus/AP.)

A milestone for Notre Dame: 1 year until cathedral reopens to public after devastating fire

Dec 8, 2023
John Leicester

COVID-defying French nun toasts 117th birthday with wine and prayer

Feb 11, 2021
John Leicester

Ex-Vatican envoy’s trial for sex assault begins without him

Nov 11, 2020
John Leicester

French police quiz child apologists of teacher’s beheading

Nov 8, 2020
John Leicester

Paris priest tests positive for coronavirus

Mar 1, 2020
John Leicester

At Tour de France, a beacon for fire-damaged Notre Dame

Jul 9, 2019
John Leicester

In Notre Dame fire, embers of unity for a fractured France

Apr 16, 2019
John Leicester

In France, rebel priest takes on Church bosses on sex abuse

Sep 6, 2018
John Leicester