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Peruvians to celebrate Leo’s birthday with beloved local devotion

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Filipino priest who defied Duterte to receive Nobel Prize of Asia

Sep 8
Joseph San Mateo

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. launches a website where the public can report issues surrounding flood control projects, August 11, 2025. (Credit: Presidential Communications Office.)

Filipino church leaders condemn corruption of flood control projects

Sep 5
Joseph San Mateo

A Freemason Hall. (Credit: Pexel.)

Filipino priest suspended for blessing Masonic marker

Sep 3
Joseph San Mateo

Father Robert Reyes, a prominent Filipino activist priest, leads a penitential service for the change of heart of the Senate and the Supreme Court, at Malate Church in Manila, Philippines, August 22, 2025. (Credit: Joseph San Mateo.)

Filipino Catholic group wears ‘sackcloth and ashes’ to seek Duterte impeachment

Aug 25
Joseph San Mateo

Vice President Sara Duterte attends a Mass at the San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City, her family's hometown, for the opening of the 2025 Kadayawan Festival, August 7, 2025. (Credit: Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook.)

Filipino priests, laypersons ask Supreme Court to allow Duterte impeachment

Aug 15
Joseph San Mateo

Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David joins the celebration of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, in these photos shared by the Diocese of Kalookan on July 27, 2025. (Credit: Roman Catholic Bishop of Kalookan/Facebook.)

Cardinal David questions Philippines’ gambling law after young man’s death

Aug 8
Joseph San Mateo

Archbishop Martin Jumoad on Tuesday, Aug. 5, announces the temporary closure of St. John the Baptist Parish in Jimenez, Misamis Occidental, after the desecration of its holy water font. (Credit: DXDD Radio/Facebook.)

Historic Filipino parish closed after vlogger ‘spits’ into holy water font

Aug 7
Joseph San Mateo

Cardinal Jose Advincula (left) shares a light moment with House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez (center), cousin of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr., during a thanksgiving Mass at the Manila Cathedral, July 27, 2025. (Credit: Manila Cathedral/Facebook.)

Manila archbishop tells lawmakers: Ensure every law ‘is a prayer before God’

Jul 30
Joseph San Mateo

File photo of Vice President Sara Duterte, posted on her official account on July 3, 2025. (Credit: Inday Sara Duterte/Facebook.)

Priests, nuns condemn Philippine court ruling against Duterte impeachment

Jul 28
Joseph San Mateo

Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer from his window at the Vatican, August 10, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Peruvians to celebrate Leo’s birthday with beloved local devotion

Sep 12
Elise Ann Allen

St Patrick's Cathedral in Karachi, Pakistan. (Credit: Wikipedia.)

Catholic pilgrim murdered in Pakistan

Sep 10
Nirmala Carvalho

A protester wearing flak jacket and carrying a shield snatched from a policeman shouts slogans at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepal’s government’s various ministries and offices during a protest against social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Credit: Niranjan Shrestha/AP.)

Priest said Catholics in Nepal are hoping for an end to violence

Sep 10
Nirmala Carvalho

A Cameroonian policeman and a gendarme patrol in Lysoka, near Buea, in Cameroon’s Anglophone South-West region, October 07, 2018. (Credit: Voice of America.)

Cameroon bishop laments spiraling violence in Anglophone regions

Sep 10
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV and Crux's Elise Ann Allen speak at the Palazzo Sant'Uffizio at the Vatican on Jul 30, 2025. (Credit: CruxNow.com)

Leo gives first exclusive interview to Crux correspondent for new bio

Sep 8
Crux Staff

Maybe we should stop waiting for real pope to emerge from under careful facade

Sep 7
John L. Allen Jr.

Pope Leo XIV at his general audience in the Vatican on Aug. 20, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Traditionalists rejoice that top US cardinal allowed to celebrate old Latin Mass at St. Peter’s

Sep 9
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope makes saints of youth icons who capture cornerstones of his agenda

Sep 7
Elise Ann Allen