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A painting inside the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome depicting a cherub, right, that bore a striking resemblance to Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni shows signs of alteration after the face was removed, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026. (Credit: Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP.)

An angel resembling Italy’s Meloni is painted over after an outcry from church and state

Feb 5
Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas,
Silvia Stellacci, Associated Press

New cardinals quarantine in pope’s hotel ahead of consistory

Nov 27, 2020
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Pope heads to Ireland amid new global outrage over sex abuse

Aug 25, 2018
Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd at the weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sep. 23, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo remembers Archbishop Fulton Sheen the day before media pioneer’s beatification

Sep 23
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French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte arrive in the St. Damasus Courtyard at the Vatican to meet with Pope Leo XIV, Friday, April 10, 2026. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

About 2,000 church sex abuse victims have come forward for reparations in France

Sep 23
Sylvie Corbet

Priests from various countries, members of the "Priests Against Genocide" network, carry a shroud bearing the names of 300 Palestinian and Lebanese children whom organizers say were killed by the Israeli military after ceasefires were declared, during a demonstration near St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Priests and nuns march to Vatican to demand end to ‘genocide’ in Gaza

Sep 23
Associated Press

The text of the French Constitution is on display at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (Credit: Thomas Padilla/AP.)

How France handles its strict secularism as it prepares for a papal visit

Sep 23
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Pope Leo remembers Archbishop Fulton Sheen the day before media pioneer’s beatification

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

Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd at the weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sep. 23, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo remembers Archbishop Fulton Sheen the day before media pioneer’s beatification

Sep 23
Crux Now Staff

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

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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
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Isabel Debre, Franklin Briceno