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Prayer is not easy: It can be a ‘battle’

Pope Leo XIV presides over Ordination Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 27, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo tells new priests to avoid ‘dubious and short-lived’ models of success

Jun 27
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV stands with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk while meeting with members of the Jubilee Pilgrimage of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the Vatican on June 28, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo say Ukraine has been ‘martyred’ in ‘senseless war’

Jun 28
Charles Collins

Bishop Arnaldo Carvalheiro Neto of Jundiaí, Brazil, meets with the parents of a child attacked in the church of Nossa Senhora do Desterro (Our Lady of Exile). The meeting took place on June 24, 2025. (Credit: Diocese of Jundiaí.)

Woman attacks toddler with pepper spray during Mass in Brazil

Jun 27
Eduardo Campos Lima

Displaced Palestinians fleeing Beit Lahia amid ongoing Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip arrive in Jabalia, northern Gaza, on Sunday, May 18, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

German-Israeli priest says Israel’s actions in Gaza are ‘genocidal’

Jun 27
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Prayer is not easy: It can be a ‘battle’

Jun 29
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby

Pope Leo XIV gives his homily at the Mass for the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul in the Vatican on June 29, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope calls for more unity in the Church on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

Jun 29
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV stands with Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk while meeting with members of the Jubilee Pilgrimage of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in the Vatican on June 28, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo say Ukraine has been ‘martyred’ in ‘senseless war’

Jun 28
Charles Collins

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (Credit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP.)

U.S. Supreme Court says parents can opt kids out of pro-LGBT books at school

Jun 28
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