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Pope Leo say Ukraine has been ‘martyred’ in ‘senseless war’

Mary Stadnyk | Crux

Pope Leo receives seminarians of the Dioceses of Triveneto on June 25, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo tells seminarians celibacy is to be ‘conserved’

Jun 26
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV presides over Ordination Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 27, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo tells new priests to avoid ‘dubious and short-lived’ models of success

Jun 27
Charles Collins

Bishop Arnaldo Carvalheiro Neto of Jundiaí, Brazil, meets with the parents of a child attacked in the church of Nossa Senhora do Desterro (Our Lady of Exile). The meeting took place on June 24, 2025. (Credit: Diocese of Jundiaí.)

Woman attacks toddler with pepper spray during Mass in Brazil

Jun 27
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo blesses representatives of the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches (ROACO) on June 26, 2025 (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Violence against Eastern Christians is growing with ‘diabolical intensity,’ says Pope Leo

Jun 26
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV stands with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk while meeting with members of the Jubilee Pilgrimage of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the Vatican on June 28, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo say Ukraine has been ‘martyred’ in ‘senseless war’

Jun 28
Charles Collins

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP.)

U.S. Supreme Court says parents can opt kids out of pro-LGBT books at school

Jun 28
Crux Staff

Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts a signing ceremony in which Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, left, and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, right, pledge to work toward a peace deal at the State Department in Washington, April 25, 2025. (Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP.)

Congo Christian leaders submit peace plan draft to President amid Security Crisis

Jun 28
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV presides over Ordination Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 27, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo tells new priests to avoid ‘dubious and short-lived’ models of success

Jun 27
Charles Collins

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