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Visiting Italian president, pope urges multilateralism, welcome of migrants
ROME – In his first visit to Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Pope Leo XIV conveyed a vision largely shared by his predecessor, calling for care of migrants and creation, condemning low European birth rates, and making an appeal for the...
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Censorship is Chaos Disguised as Order
Image by Andrej Lišakov. The scene was a courtroom turned gladiator pit, where justice isn’t blind but bloodshot, half-drunk, and swinging for the fences. A black-robed executioner masquerading as a judge hoisted a weapon hacked together from the...
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Pope Leo sends antibiotics to Gaza for sick children
Pope Leo directed the Office of Papal Charities to send 5,000 doses of antibiotics to Gaza to treat children impacted by the war. Pope Leo XIV directed that 5,000 doses of antibiotics be sent to Gaza as humanitarian aid deliveries resumed to the...
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Study sheds light on generational divide among US priests
A major new study of U.S. priests by the Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America has highlighted sharp differences in the outlook and experiences of older and younger clergy. Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk. Source. The 2025 National...
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Pope Leo XIV, St. John Paul II, and the Fertility Crisis
Pope Leo XIV has joined the chorus of those lamenting the implosion of global fertility levels. Speaking after a visit with the President of Italy, the Pope urged action to implosion of fertility and the collapse of childbearing. Encouragingly, he...
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Pope Leo XIV tells Swiss Guard they need each other to be all they can be: ‘You can be a message of unity’
VATICAN CITY — Living in harmony with others requires benevolence, honesty, solidarity and mutual respect, Pope Leo XIV said. Welcoming new recruits from different regions of Switzerland to the Pontifical Swiss Guard, the pope said they are called...
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The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests
Crisis editor Eric Sammons has made written and spoken pleas for laity calm in the aftermath of Pope Leo XIV’s odd ice-block blessing and refusal to condemn Cardinal Blase Cupich’s decision to award a pro-abortion politician with a lifetime...
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Tour Offers Unique View of Kalaupapa
Photo by Léo Azambuja By Léo Azambuja It is nearly impossible for the general population to understand the suffering, the joys, the daily lives of those diagnosed with Hansen’s disease — also known as leprosy — and sent on a one-way ticket to...
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The Pope’s homily to consecrated persons on their Jubilee Day in the Holy Year
(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 10.09.2025).- At 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 9, Pope Leo XIV presided over Holy Mass on the occasion of the jubilee for religious and consecrated persons. In the days leading up to the event, the Dicastery for...
José Daniel Ferrer denuncia tortura y “destierro obligado” tras ser liberado de prisión en Cuba
Por Mario González, CNN en Español El disidente cubano José Daniel Ferrer llegó a Estados Unidos tras lo que describe como un “destierro obligado”, al asegurar a CNN que aceptar el exilio fue la única opción que tuvo para salvar su vida y proteger...
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Leo XIV highlights multilateralism, family, acceptance as paths for peace and development
Today the pontiff visited the Quirinal Palace in Rome, the former papal palace, now the residence of the President of the Italian Republic. It was a symbolic visit centred on the relationship between the Church and politics. The pontiff called for...
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Spotlight on 2025 Nikon Prize Winners and Walkley Award photography finalists
The Walkley Foundation is thrilled to announce the 2025 winners of the Nikon Photography Prizes, along with all the photographic category finalists for the 70th annual Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The Walkley Awards for Excellence...
Wildfire suspect to remain jailed
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a man charged in California’s deadly Palisades Fire to remain jailed amid concerns about his mental health. A prosecutor said Jonathan Rinderknecht had traits of an arsonist and his family had...
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Pope says role of the media has never been more essential … or more threatened
Photographer Hatem Khaled, a Reuters contractor, sits in a car, after being wounded in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, August 25, that killed journalists (OSV News/Ramadan Abed, Reuters) Addressing a...
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Elderly are a gift, blessing to be welcomed, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Getting old is part of the wonder of creation and is a sign of hope, Pope Leo XIV said. "Instead of being ashamed of human weakness, we will, in fact, be led to ask for help from our brothers and sisters and from God, who...
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Consecrated life shows beauty of authentic love, trust in God, pope says
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — All human beings need consistent, lasting, and healthy experiences of authentic love, Pope Leo XIV said. Consecrated men and women, who abandon themselves “like children into the arms of the...
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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem speaks out after first phase of peace deal completed
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 15, 2025 / 17:51 pm Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has given an update on the status of Christians in Gaza after the first phase of the historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas began this week. “We are in daily...
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‘Take Courage and Rebuild’: Holy Spirit breathes new life into Vancouver’s Charismatic Renewal
For a movement that’s all about rebirth, there was plenty of it for nearly 200 people attending the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference in Vancouver. Not only was Melvin De Paz present to share his story of transformation from addiction and...
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Pope Leo XIV, in His First Apostolic Exhortation, Says the Poor Evangelize Us
Pope Leo XIV signs his first apostolic exhortation, “Dilexi Te,” at the Vatican on Saturday, October 4. The text of his first exhortation was released on October 9.In the first major document of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV writes that the poor...
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Gaza's only Catholic church to reopen school as fragile ceasefire holds
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A Catholic-run school that was among thousands of educational institutions shut in Gaza during the war will soon reopen, a senior priest has said. At the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, a small band of nuns,...
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