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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

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

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A man kneels next to the coffins of sisters Liubava and Vira Yakovleva, killed by a Russian rocket strike during their funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 19, 2026. (Credit: Evygeniy Maloletka/AP.)

Kyiv holds a funeral for 2 young sisters killed by a Russian missile strike

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Priests bless believers and their Easter baskets to mark Orthodox Easter, in Pyrohiv, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire

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Residential multistory buildings are seen in the dark during large-scale power outages following Russian strikes on Ukraine’s power grid in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Credit: Dan Bashakov/AP.)

Pope Leo asks for prayers for Ukraine, as it faces freeze after Russia attacks

Jan 25
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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

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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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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

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