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Pope Francis speaks to participants in a Feb. 3, 2025, International Summit on the Rights of the Child inside the Clementine Hall of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope leads global summit on defending children’s rights

Feb 4
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Francis greets a child after he baptized him during Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 12, 2025, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope offers ‘baby bonus’ to Vatican employees

Jan 16
Elise Ann Allen

Pope urges poor, disabled children to ‘keep the light of love burning’

Sep 7, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Tomas Hlavaty. (Credit: Diocese of Alba)

Italian priest’s exit for wife, unborn child renews celibacy debate

Sep 2, 2024
Crux Staff

Refugees fleeing conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, in 2020. (Credit: Nariman El-Mofty, Associated Press.)

Drought driving new crisis of child hunger in Ethiopia, Catholic experts say

Aug 26, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna of Malta and Malta Trust Foundation chair Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca at a signing ceremony on July 5, 2024. (Credit: Archdiocese of Malta.)

Malta lends famed property to center for disabled children

Jul 11, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Rescuers, volunteers and medical workers search for survivors after a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s biggest children’s hospital. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Pope, Ukraine Church leader condemns children’s hospital attack in Kyiv

Jul 10, 2024
Elise Ann Allen

Famed Italian actor and comic stars on Pope’s own stage

May 27, 2024
Crux Staff

From geopolitics to traffic, a week of vignettes from the Vatican

May 26, 2024
John L. Allen Jr.

Pope calls for negotiated peace, blasts climate change skeptics in CBS interview

Apr 25, 2024
Crux Staff