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(OSV News) -- The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation announced a series of initiatives across several continents that will take place throughout...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV sent a letter to the College of Cardinals thanking them for their participation in the January consistory and preparing the...
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BAMENDA, Cameroon (OSV News) -- A religious sister in Cameroon who was kidnapped just a few months ago by separatists and held hostage for three days in...
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YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon on April 15, delivering a forceful appeal for peace to a nation scarred by years...
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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO YAOUNDE, Cameroon (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV spoke to journalists aboard the papal plane on April 15 on the five-hour flight...
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ANNABA, ALGERIA (CNS) -- In a country marred by hardship, deep faith and hard-won independence, Pope Leo XIV pointed to Algeria as a living witness to...
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BAMENDA, Cameroon (OSV News) -- Cameroon is abuzz with anticipation as the nation prepares to welcome the pontiff for the fourth time in the country's...
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ALGIERS (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV honored the memory of Algeria's Christian martyrs Monday evening, telling the country's tiny Catholic community that...
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(OSV News) -- As Pope Leo XIV makes his first apostolic journey to Africa April 13-23, some scholars of the Church's past are hoping he won't just make...
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(OSV News) -- Lebanese Christians are reeling from the death and destruction wrought on their community, caught in the crossfire between Israel and Lebanon's...
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ALGIERS (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV arrived in Algeria on the morning of April 13, becoming the first pope to make an apostolic journey to the North Africa...
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ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ALGIERS (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV said April 13 he has "no fear" of President Donald Trump's administration and responded to...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV is renewing urgent calls for peace, following a powerful April 11 prayer vigil where he warned that "war divides," "arrogance...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Warning against an increasingly unpredictable and aggressive "delusion of omnipotence" threatening the globe, Pope Leo XIV called...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Appealing to those in power to end all conflicts through dialogue and not domination, Pope Leo XIV urged humanity to stop growing...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- God's love is stronger than any evil, capable of "driving out hatred" and "bringing down the mighty," Pope Leo XIV said. "Man can...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Leo XIV welcomed the newly announced ceasefire in the Middle East as “a sign of genuine hope” after what he described...
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ROME (OSV News) -- Inside the ancient arena of the Roman Empire that crucified Christ, Pope Leo XIV carried the cross through the darkness of night on...
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(OSV News) -- Holy Week in the Holy Land is unfolding in unprecedented silence, as war-related restrictions have left sacred sites largely without the...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV spoke over the telephone with the presidents of Israel and Ukraine on Good Friday, urging diplomatic solutions and humanitarian...
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ROME (CNS) -- God doesn't exist to grant victories or to be useful by providing wealth or power, Pope Leo XIV said. Through Jesus, he serves humanity...
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(OSV News) -- On April 2, 2005, St. John Paul II returned to the Father's house. Twenty days earlier, on March 13, 2005, in Gemelli Hospital, he penned...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV has called on Catholics to pray for priests who find themselves in crisis and to "support those who so often support us." In...
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(OSV News) -- The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said an agreement has been reached with Israeli authorities to allow Holy Week and Easter celebrations...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Marking the start of Holy Week, Pope Leo XIV used his first Palm Sunday Mass to issue a forceful plea for peace, urging an end to...
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VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- In his first Palm Sunday homily, Pope Leo XIV proclaimed that Jesus, the King of Peace, embraces all suffering in human history...
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(OSV News) -- Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, the custos of the Holy Land, were...
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MONACO (CNS) -- Built behind fortresses and perched on precipitous rock, the tiny principality of Monaco has survived centuries of invasions, revolutions...
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MONACO (OSV News) -- In the principality known for super yachts and sports cars, Pope Leo XIV urged Monaco's wealthy citizens to remember the poor and...
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(OSV News) -- The Church's celebration of Holy Week is a solemn time for Catholics around the world to contemplate the final days of Jesus Christ and commemorate...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV renewed his appeal for a ceasefire in the ongoing U.S. and Israel-Iran war in comments to journalists in Castel Gandolfo on...
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LVIV, Ukraine (OSV News) -- A historic Bernardine monastery complex and the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in the western Ukraine city of Lviv were hit by...
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VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24 in St. Louis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced March...
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— El arzobispo Fulton J. Sheen será beatificado el 24 de septiembre en St. Louis, según anunció el 25 de marzo el Dicasterio para las...
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VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified on Sept. 24 in St. Louis, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints announced March...
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(Vatican News) -- A Vatican diplomat in Geneva issued a call for greater commitment to the defense of the dignity and rights of people with Down syndrome,...
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JERUSALEM (OSV News) -- The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said wartime restrictions have forced the cancellation or postponement of key Holy Week observances,...
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(OSV News) -- A Belgian Catholic bishop said he "will make every effort to ordain married men as priests" and expressed his commitment to doing so by 2028. In...
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ROME (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV met with the head of Israel's Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center at the Vatican March 23. The Holy See did...
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ROME (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV declared Father Edward Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, venerable on March 23, recognizing his heroic virtue and moving...
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(OSV News) -- The Church of the Holy Sepulcher remains a place of continuous prayer despite restricted access to the faithful, according to a statement...
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(OSV News) -- As the U.S. and Israel-Iran war enters its fourth week, and amid a deep humanitarian crisis throughout the region, Pope Leo XIV appealed...
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(OSV News) -- As Barcelona prepares for the centenary of Antoni Gaudí's death in 2026, renewed attention is focusing not only on the famed Spanish...
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(OSV News) -- Israeli authorities closed Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher as part of wider closures for security concerns, beginning Feb. 28, when...
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ROME (CNS) -- Believing problems and differences can be resolved with war is absurd, Pope Leo XIV said, chastising those who use God's name in their dark...
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(OSV News) -- The Vatican's top diplomat to the United Nations called for a "holistic approach" in securing access to justice for women and girls. "Ensuring...
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