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President Donald Trump outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 2026. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Trump says he won’t apologize to Pope Leo and explains his reason for posting much-criticized meme

Apr 14
Will Weissert,
Josh Boak, Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on April 12, after leaving Miami. (Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP.)

Trump lambasts Pope Leo XIV, extending feud over Iran war with first American pontiff

Apr 13
Will Weissert,
Josh Boak, Associated Press

Biden: Pope told him he should ‘keep receiving communion’

Oct 29, 2021
Josh Boak,
Zeke Miller, Nicole Winfield

Biden, pope to talk virus, climate, poverty at Vatican

Oct 29, 2021
Josh Boak,
Zeke Miller

Biden bound for global summits as domestic agenda in limbo

Oct 28, 2021
Josh Boak,
Zeke Miller

Premium article: New convert and author says French Catholics have learned from Islam to be proud of their faith

Sep 22
Fionn Shiner

Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter’ s Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope will retrace his missionary footsteps in Peru and finally visit Argentina in November

Sep 22
Nicole Winfield,
Isabel Debre, Franklin Briceno

People enter the Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire basilica in Lourdes, southwestern France, Tuesday Sept. 8, 2026 . (Credit: Fred Scheiber/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV in France will find a secular country at odds with Catholic teaching on life

Sep 22
Nicole Winfield

Activists fighting child abuse stage a protest near the home of a former Catholic priest suspected of sexually assaulting dozens of children, in Etrechy, outside Paris, Wednesday, Sept 16, 2026, Placards read from the left: '330,000 victims of child sexual abuse, never again' and Delfosse, the church knew'. (Credit: Thibault Camus/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV will meet with the French abuse survivors as critics demand action

Sep 22
Sylvie Corbet

Pope Leo XIV signs Magnifica humanitas. (Image ©Vatican Media)

Premium article: Amid doomsaying on AI, Leo XIV looks before – and beyond – regulation

Sep 20
Christopher R. Altieri

Pope Leo XIV prays the Angelus on Sunday, 20 Sept. 2026, in the Vatican. (Image ©Vatican Media)

Pope appeals for aid to drought and violence-stricken Somalia

Sep 20
Crux Now Staff

People enter the Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire basilica in Lourdes, southwestern France, Tuesday Sept. 8, 2026 . (Credit: Fred Scheiber/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV in France will find a secular country at odds with Catholic teaching on life

Sep 22
Nicole Winfield

a busy street intersection near the iconic "I Love My Country" monument in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon

Premium article: Cameroon faces upsurge in deadly violence against women

Sep 20
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New convert and author says French Catholics have learned from Islam to be proud of their faith