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Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, speak to journalists on July 22, 2015. (Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.)

Latin Patriarch says ‘dignity of the human spirit’ remains in Gaza

Jul 23
Charles Collins

Palestinians gather around the bodies of Dr. Marwan al-Sultan, the director of the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, his wife, his daughter, and his son-in-law, after they were killed in an Israeli airstrike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, on July 2, 2025. (Credit: Jehad Alshrafi/AP.)

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem says war in Gaza is ‘inexcusable’

Jul 22
Crux Staff

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Patriarch Theophilos III of the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem visit Gaza after Thursday’s attack on the Church of the Holy Family, July 18, 2025. (Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.)

Pope Leo XIV calls Cardinal Pizzaballa about attack on Gaza church

Jul 18
Charles Collins

‘Papabile’ of the Day: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa

Apr 28
John L. Allen Jr.

Nuns pray for Pope Francis in front of the statue of Pope John Paul II at the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

As Pope Francis marks first week in hospital, Church leaders call for prayer

Feb 21
Charles Collins

Two men walk near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Credit: Ariel Schalit/AP.)

Holy Land Catholic leaders: End of the war is not end of the conflict

Jan 17
John Lavenburg

Day after Pope said he’d been blocked, Catholic patriarch enters Gaza after all

Dec 23, 2024
Crux Staff

Pope, Holy Land leaders call for Oct. 7 to be day of prayer, fasting for peace

Oct 4, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

A summer camp for children at the Saint James Vicariate for Hebrew Speaking Catholics in Israel in 2021. (Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.)

Catholic Church in Israel helps Christian migrants seeking safety

Sep 30, 2024
Crux Staff

Pope Francis appeals for peace in Lebanon in 2020. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope, Christian leaders press case for peace in Lebanon and Gaza

Aug 27, 2024
Crux Staff

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Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives

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