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Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.)

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Survivor letters frame challenge facing Leo XIV on abuse and coverup

Rome conference highlights crucial safeguarding role of women, as Pope Leo XIV begins his pontificate.

Jun 22
Christopher R. Altieri

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Archbishop demands suspension of Marilyn Manson’s concert in Mexico

Jun 23
Eduardo Campos Lima

A Christian is in the hospital after being attacked by Hindu nationalists in Odisha state in India. (Credit: Chhattisgarh Christian Forum.)

Attack on Christians in India’s Odisha state blamed on Hindu nationalists

Jun 23
Nirmala Carvalho

Leila de Lima receives her honorary doctorate in sociology at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines, June 20, 2025. (Credit: Aaron Vicencio/UMCO/Ateneo de Manila University.)

Philippines’ top Jesuit school awards doctorate to once-jailed Duterte critic

Jun 23
Joseph San Mateo

Father Anderson Pitz with Janaina Moreira Soares da Rocha and Everaldo da Rocha. (Credit: Instagram of Father Pitz.)

Catholic community shocked with loss of couple in tragic balloon accident in Brazil

Jun 23
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV meets with political leaders during the Jubilee of Governments on June 21, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

Jun 21
Charles Collins

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In the spiritual life, silence is the highest form of language

Jun 22
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby

Leila de Lima receives her honorary doctorate in sociology at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines, June 20, 2025. (Credit: Aaron Vicencio/UMCO/Ateneo de Manila University.)

Philippines’ top Jesuit school awards doctorate to once-jailed Duterte critic

Jun 23
Joseph San Mateo

Father Anderson Pitz with Janaina Moreira Soares da Rocha and Everaldo da Rocha. (Credit: Instagram of Father Pitz.)

Catholic community shocked with loss of couple in tragic balloon accident in Brazil

Jun 23
Eduardo Campos Lima

Pope Leo XIV meets with political leaders during the Jubilee of Governments on June 21, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

Jun 21
Charles Collins

(Credit: Pexel.)

In the spiritual life, silence is the highest form of language

Jun 22
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby

In the spiritual life, silence is the highest form of language

Jun 22
Father Jeffrey F. Kirby

A solution may happen for the liturgical crisis in the Syro-Malabar Church in India

Jun 21
Nirmala Carvalho

Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

Jun 21
Charles Collins

Bishops protest as UK Parliament votes to legalize assisted suicide

Jun 21
Charles Collins

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Pope calls for peace, diplomacy in light of U.S. strikes on Iran

Jun 22
Elise Ann Allen

Signs are seen supporting refugees as Tshishiku Henry, a former refugee and Washington Delegate for the Refugee Conference, speaks in Seattle, Washington, on Feb. 25, 2025. (Credit: Ryan Sun/AP.)

Catholic official says refugees don’t leave their homes unless they have no choice

Jun 21
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV greets Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 12, 2025, during a meeting with representatives of the media who covered his election. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo delivers fiery defense of freedom of the press, supports Peru journalists

Jun 21
Elise Ann Allen

The Jindal Center in Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, a state in central India. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Christian wedding party attacked in central India

Jun 20
Nirmala Carvalho

Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Armed groups in DR Congo still recruit children to their ranks

Jun 20
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

Jun 19
Charles Collins

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Online gambling ‘wrecking lives’ of poor Filipinos, says Cardinal David

Jun 19
Joseph San Mateo

UN troops deploy outside Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 24, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Congo bishops denounce claim by political leader Church involved in conspiracy

Jun 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Church condemns ‘spiral of violence’ in Bolivia

Jun 18
Eduardo Campos Lima

Church in South Africa remembers history of discrimination in nation

Jun 18
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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Pope calls for peace, diplomacy in light of U.S. strikes on Iran

Jun 22
Elise Ann Allen

Signs are seen supporting refugees as Tshishiku Henry, a former refugee and Washington Delegate for the Refugee Conference, speaks in Seattle, Washington, on Feb. 25, 2025. (Credit: Ryan Sun/AP.)

Catholic official says refugees don’t leave their homes unless they have no choice

Jun 21
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope Leo XIV greets Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 12, 2025, during a meeting with representatives of the media who covered his election. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo delivers fiery defense of freedom of the press, supports Peru journalists

Jun 21
Elise Ann Allen

The Jindal Center in Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, a state in central India. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

Christian wedding party attacked in central India

Jun 20
Nirmala Carvalho

Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and police officers who allegedly surrendered to M23 rebels arrive in Goma, Congo, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Credit: Moses Sawasawa/AP.)

Armed groups in DR Congo still recruit children to their ranks

Jun 20
Ngala Killian Chimtom

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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

Jun 19
Charles Collins

Online gambling ‘wrecking lives’ of poor Filipinos, says Cardinal David

Jun 19
Joseph San Mateo

Congo bishops denounce claim by political leader Church involved in conspiracy

Jun 19
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

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Pope Leo XIV meets with political leaders during the Jubilee of Governments on June 21, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says international relations should be based on Natural Law

Jun 21
Charles Collins

A van displaying a sign passes Big Ben as demonstrators both for and against assisted dying hold banners outside Parliament in London, Friday, June 20, 2025, as British lawmakers are set to vote Friday on whether to back a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales. (Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP.)

Bishops protest as UK Parliament votes to legalize assisted suicide

Jun 21
Charles Collins

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Catholic Church warns assisted suicide Bill in Britain would damage hospice care

Jun 19
Charles Collins

California Highway Patrol officers arrest two men after a dispersal order during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Credit: Ethan Swope/AP.)

Archbishop of Los Angeles says Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants ‘is punishment’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV reflects on the paralytic man being healed in the Gospel of St. John in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on June 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls for hope for those ‘locked in a dead end’

Jun 18
Charles Collins

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Pope calls for peace, diplomacy in light of U.S. strikes on Iran

Jun 22
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV greets Peruvian journalist Paola Ugaz in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 12, 2025, during a meeting with representatives of the media who covered his election. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo delivers fiery defense of freedom of the press, supports Peru journalists

Jun 21
Elise Ann Allen

Israeli Ambassador to the Holy See Yaron Sideman presents his credentials to Pope Francis. (Credit: Israeli Embassy to the Holy See.)

Israeli envoy defends Iran offensive, says pope can make a difference

Jun 17
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo urges Chicago youth to be messengers of hope, peace

Jun 15
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV meets with Pontifical Representatives inside the Vatican's Apostolic Palace during the Jubilee for Papal Representatives June 10, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Leo with the curia will maintain Francis’s direction, but change the tone

Jun 11
Elise Ann Allen

John Lavenburg

A woman holds a picture of Pope Francis reading in Italian “Farewell Francis, thank you His Holiness, today all the people cry for you” in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican after Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

Pope Francis will be remembered for his concern over refugees and immigrants

Apr 21
John Lavenburg

Catholic Charities Western Washington CEO: Federal funding uncertainty ‘a big dilemma’

Mar 27
John Lavenburg

Parishioners attend Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church in the Queens borough of New York on Sunday, May 8, 2022. According to a report released Thursday, April 13, 2023, by the Pew Research Center, Catholics remain the largest religious group among Latinos in the United States, but the number of Latinos who identify as religiously unaffiliated continues to grow. (Credit: Brittainy Newman/AP.)

20 percent of adults have left their childhood religion in many countries, study shows

Mar 26
John Lavenburg

Religious freedom commission expresses ‘hope’ with Trump, cites Biden IRFA violation

Mar 26
John Lavenburg

Prime Minister Mark Carney meets young members of the crowd during the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Montreal, Sunday March 16, 2025. (Credit: Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP.)

Canadian Catholic leaders denounce government budget proposals

Mar 19
John Lavenburg

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