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Belarus frees Catholic priest, prominent journalist in a 10-person prisoner swap

Pope Leo XIV arrives to celebrate Mass at Yaounde Ville Airport, Cameroon, Saturday, April 18, 2026 on the sixth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Tea leaves take on many colors in pope’s response to question on gay blessings

Apr 26
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV meets with Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury in the Vatican on April 27, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo acknowledges ‘complex’ relationship with Anglicans during meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury

Apr 27
Charles Collins

St. Mary’s Catholic Church is in Husbands Bosworth, England. (Credit: Charles Collins/Crux Now.)

Visiting an Ordinariate parish in England as new Archbishop of Canterbury visits Rome

Apr 27
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV on the papal plane from Equatorial Guinea to Rome on April 23, 2026. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/Crux Now.)

On way back to Rome, Pope Leo condemns state executions in Iran

Apr 23
Elise Ann Allen

Journalist Andrzej Poczobut stands in court in Grodno, Belarus, on Jan. 16, 2023. (Credit: Leonid Shcheglov/Pool via AP.)

Belarus frees Catholic priest, prominent journalist in a 10-person prisoner swap

Apr 29
Claudia Ciobanu,
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Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square on April 29, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

A journey to Africa was what he wanted at the beginning of his pontificate, Leo says

Apr 29
Crux Now Staff

Pope Leo XIV meets with Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury in the Vatican on April 27, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo acknowledges ‘complex’ relationship with Anglicans during meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury

Apr 27
Charles Collins

Cardinal Jose Advincula presides over the Mass at the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Mercy on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Credit: Archdiocese of Manila.)

Manila archbishop collects cooking oil to help Filipinos weather energy crisis

Apr 27
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Pawtucket Rangers Militia reenactors assemble in an Evacuation Day ceremony marking the 1776 departure of British troops from the city during the American Revolutionary War, March 17, 2026, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP.)

Boston marks 250 years since British evacuation at Catholic church

Mar 18
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A cross is silhouetted against a stained glass window inside a Catholic Church in New Orleans on Dec. 1, 2012. (Credit: Gerald Herbert/AP.)

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