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At Vatican Christmas concert, Pope Leo XIV sings praises of music

Pope Leo XIV greets Canadian singer Michael Bublé after an audience Dec. 5 in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Song legend Michael Bublé meets Leo XIV, takes requests

Dec 6
Crux Staff

Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech during a farewell ceremony at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 12025. (Credit: Andreas Solaro/Pool Photo via AP.)

Pope cancels Holy See fundraising commission announced under questionable circumstances

Dec 5
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV to diplomats: ‘Holy See will not be a silent bystander’ amid challenges to peace

Dec 6
Crux Staff

Pope Leo XIV meets with the participants in the Conference "Artificial Intelligence and Care of Our Common Home" in the Vatican on Dec. 5, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

AI forces us to ask ‘what does it mean to be human?’ Pope Leo says

Dec 5
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Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech during a farewell ceremony at the Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 12025. (Credit: Andreas Solaro/Pool Photo via AP.)

Pope cancels Holy See fundraising commission announced under questionable circumstances

Dec 5
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

People wait for the Angelus by Pope Leo XIV on July 27 in St. Peter’s Square. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican commission says ‘No’ to making women deacons

Dec 4
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV holds a moment of prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/AP.)

Pope prays at site of 2020 Beirut port explosion

Dec 2
Nicole Winfield,
Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

A nun holds up a portrait of Pope Leo XIV where he will meet with bishops, priests, consecrated persons and pastoral workers at the Catholic basilica of Harissa, Lebanon Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.)

Pope in Lebanon prays for peace at tomb of saint revered by Christians and Muslims

Dec 1
Nicole Winfield,
Trisha Thomas, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV at Esenboga International Airport in Ankara, Turkey, on Nov. 11, 2025. (Credit: Khalil Hamra/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV arrives in Turkey for his first papal trip abroad

Nov 27
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

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 leaves at the end of an audience on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Choirs in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV accepts resignation of Spanish bishop accused of abuse in first known case for pontiff

Nov 22
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

A Wordle game is seen on a mobile phone, July 15, 2022, in Boston. (Credit: Michael Dwyer/AP.)

Pontifical secret revealed: Pope Leo XIV changes his Wordle start word each day

Nov 21
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Francis shakes hands with Sister Raffaella Petrini, secretary general of the Vatican’s governorship, at the Vatican, on Dec. 23, 2021. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope tweaks a law allowing a woman to head the Vatican City State, months after a nun was appointed

Nov 21
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

At Vatican Christmas concert, Pope Leo XIV sings praises of music

Dec 7
Elise Ann Allen

Pope appeals for victims of devastating storms in southeast Asia

Dec 7
Crux Staff

Pope Leo XIV to diplomats: ‘Holy See will not be a silent bystander’ amid challenges to peace

Dec 6
Crux Staff

Christian women sing and dance at a church in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Nov. 5, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

US to restrict visas for Nigerians, family members involved in violence against Christians

Dec 6
Dyepkazah Shibayan,
Associated Press