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Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

A man with his wife and two of his brides walk, during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Credit: Themba Hadebe/AP.)

With address of polygamy, Vatican flunks early test of synodality

Nov 26
Charles Collins

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez delivers his speech during a mass on the sixth of nine days of mourning for late Pope Francis, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 1, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican answers African bishops concerned about polygamy with document praising monogamous marriage

Nov 25
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, August 6, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo to make international debut with tightrope act

Nov 26
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo XIV talks Thanksgiving, Türkiye and Lebanon, Ukraine, Violence against Women

Nov 26
Crux Staff

Father Maurice El Khoury, left, leads Sunday Mass inside a room usually used as a residence for visiting bishops next to St. George Melkite Catholic Church, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in the town of Dardghaya, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Credit: Hassan Ammar/AP.)

Cardinal Parolin says Pope Leo aiming to give hope to Christians in the Middle East

Nov 27
Crux Staff

Vatican budget shortfall nearly halved in 2024

Nov 27
Crux Staff

People who were kidnapped in a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kabuna, Nigeria, on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerian rights group links surge in violence to Vatican’s ‘inconsistent’ narrative

Nov 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross over the Waters in Cádiz, Spain. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Spanish bishop accused of sexual abuse maintains his innocence

Nov 27
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