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

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 holds Wednesday General Audience in the Vatican on June 25, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo warns against approaching Jesus in ‘a superficial way’

Jun 25
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV with Bishops during their Jubilee pilgrimage to St Peter's Basilica on June 25, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Bishops must work for unity, especially with the priests of their dioceses, Pope Leo says

Jun 25
Charles Collins

The Church of St. Bartholomäus in Essen, Oldenburg in Germany. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Bishop in India barred from visiting Germany due to abuse allegations

Jun 25
Nirmala Carvalho

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Chicago Sun Times newspaper headlines after Chicago native Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, published on May 9, 2025. (Credit: Melina Walling/AP.)

‘DA POPE!’ Leo XIV’s Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor

May 11
Matt Sedensky,
Associated Press

‘We’ve done our part’: End of Roe brings answer to prayer

Jun 24, 2022
Matt Sedensky

Louisiana residents thankful for small miracles after Ida

Louisiana residents thankful for small miracles after Ida

Sep 6, 2021
Matt Sedensky,
Aaron Morrison

‘How many of us will be left?’ Catholic nuns face loss, pain

Apr 9, 2021
Matt Sedensky

An unassuming maestro of Sunday soundtracks lost to COVID-19

May 18, 2020
Matt Sedensky

At a Catholic seminary, hope for church beyond scandals

Feb 17, 2020
Matt Sedensky

AP-NORC Poll: Divided Americans fret country losing identity

Mar 6, 2017
Matt Sedensky

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

Displaced Palestinians fleeing Beit Lahia amid ongoing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip arrive in Jabalia, northern Gaza, on Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

German-Israeli priest says Israel’s actions in Gaza are ‘genocidal’

Jun 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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

Flag of Pakistan. (Credit: Pixabay.)

After 23 years in prison for blasphemy, Catholic man in Pakistan freed

Jun 27
Nirmala Carvalho