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Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

Pope Leo XIV with Andrzej Michalski and Proton at the Vatican on Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

Oct 16
Crux Staff

Group defining crime of spiritual abuse making good progress, cardinal says

Oct 15
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV presides over a Rosary vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

Oct 16
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Cathedral of St. Joseph in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

New Hampshire court rules in clergy abuse case that 2020 law cannot be applied retroactively

Oct 15
Holly Ramer,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV with Andrzej Michalski and Proton at the Vatican on Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo receives a purebred Arabian horse

Oct 16
Crux Staff

Pope Leo XIV leaves the Global World Food Day Ceremony in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 16, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

Pope Leo urges world leaders ‘not to look the other way’ in fighting global hunger

Oct 16
Giada Zampano,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV presides over a Rosary vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

Oct 16
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV meets Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2025. Lula holds a book with a black and white photo representing the Asháninka, an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in Brazil and Peru. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Brazil’s Lula meets with Pope Leo and tries to keep friendship he had with Francis

Oct 16
Eduardo Campos Lima

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