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Pope Leo publishes first book of his pre-papal writing

Category: Church in Europe | Crux

Church in Europe

Premium article: Top European bishop to Crux Now: Fear of immigration shows Europe’s identity crisis

Sep 10
Fionn Shiner

Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Basilica on Aug. 5, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope’s visit to France likely to attract 1M people, with Mass and vigil in Paris and Lourdes trip

Sep 9
Sylvie Corbet

A man touches the cross as Serbian national military servicemen stand around the coffin of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who died last week while serving a life sentence for genocide and other atrocities during the war in Bosnia, at the St. Luka Church, in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (Credit: Marko Drobnjakovic/AP.)

Body of war criminal Mladic lies in state at Orthodox church in Serbian capital ahead of funeral

Sep 7
Dusan Stojanovic,
Jovana Gec

An election poster of the German far right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), right, is attached to a lamppost in front of a giant election poster showing a map of Germany, at the headquarters of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 29, 2025. Slogan reads: ‘Now AfD’. (Credit: Michael Sohn/AP.)

German far-right wins state elections after local church’s warnings

Sep 7
Fionn Shiner

A golf cart sits near the Colosseum as tourists crowd the surrounding streets in Rome, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, highlighting the growing presence of the vehicles in the capital’s historic center as authorities move to curb an industry blamed by critics for worsening congestion, illegal parking, and overtourism. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Reckoning looms for golf carts that zip through Rome’s crowded historic center

Sep 4
David Biller,
Lorenzo Gironacci

Lisbon Patriarch Rui Valério and other officials attend the inauguration of a memorial to the 16 people killed in the derailment and crash of Lisbon's Glória funicular, an iconic streetcar, on the first anniversary of the accident, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026. (Credit: Armando Franca/AP.)

Catholic Patriarch marks year after crash of an iconic Lisbon streetcar

Sep 4
Barry Hatton

Opus Dei responds to bishop’s ‘offensive and unfounded accusation’ in dispute over Marian image

Sep 4
Fionn Shiner

Iglesia del Santuario de Torreciudad. Credit: José Luis Filpo Cabana/Wikimedia.

Spanish bishop renews dispute with Opus Dei over Marian image

Sep 3
Fionn Shiner

Spanish Army soldiers block access to the beach for people crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, August 31, 2026. (Credit: Antonio Sempere/AP.)

Spanish bishop says Ceuta crisis is part of a ‘geopolitical game’

Aug 31
Fionn Shiner

Father Nikolaos Vlavianos stands beside an icon of Saint Fanourios, known in Greek as "The Revealer," at the Church of St. Fanourios in Athens, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (Credit: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP.)

For everything from troubled hearts to lost keys, Greeks bake cakes for a wish-granting saint

Aug 28
Theodora Tongas,
Derek Gatopoulos

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Pope Leo publishes first book of his pre-papal writing

Sep 15
Crux Now Staff

Pope celebrates his 71st birthday but it’s Vatican employees who get the gift

Sep 15
Nicole Winfield

Premium article: ‘The Church will always believe in peace talks,’ says top Church mediator in Colombia

Sep 15
Eduardo Campos Lima

‘Century of martyrdom’: Vatican commission has recorded death of over 1700 martyrs in the 21st century

Sep 15
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