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(OSV News) -- For the past three months, Israeli settlers have been bringing their sheep herd up to the Kaabnah family compound just outside Taybeh village...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV conveyed his solidarity with the people of Indonesia after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country's eastern...
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(OSV News) -- Warning against increased violence in the West Bank, Pope Leo XIV urged world leaders to decisively pursue an independent Palestinian state...
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(OSV News) -- The world must no longer look at the plight of migrants, especially children, as a problem to be managed or quantified, but as a call to...
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(OSV News) -- Numismatists take note. The Vatican City State Mint has issued a new set of coins to mark Pope Leo XIV's pontificate and the Jubilee Year...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV traveled to Assisi Aug. 6 to celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with 2,500 young people, urging them to become the "new...
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ROME (OSV News) -- Preparations are in full swing for World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul, South Korea, where Pope Leo XIV is expected to join young Catholics...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to gather in person for Sunday Mass and called for working conditions that allow people to attend, saying...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV encouraged sisters to foster vocations to religious life in the United States in a video message sent Aug. 12. Addressing participants...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV said he was deeply saddened by the loss of life and destruction following a powerful earthquake that struck Colombia, leaving...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV will make a four-day apostolic journey to France Sept. 25-28, with a program that stretches from the Élysée Palace...
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WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) -- Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine have been identified in a 12th-century manuscript preserved in Poland, giving...
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CASTEL GANDOLFO (OSV News) -- As dusk settled over the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo on July 29, Pope Leo XIV listened as Andrea Bocelli led 164...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV traveled to Assisi Aug. 6 to celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with 2,500 young people, urging them to become the "new...
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Returning to his weekly general audiences after a monthlong summer break, Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to embrace the Liturgy of...
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VATICAN CITY (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV is inviting Catholics to pray "for evangelization in the city" as his August prayer intention, asking the Lord...
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ROME (OSV News) -- At the age of 97, Cardinal Ernest Simoni, returned to the former prison camp in Albania where he used to offer Mass in secret during...
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I will never forget you (Is 49:15) Dear brothers and sisters, Through the prophet Isaiah, the Lord promises that he will never forget any of us. He assures...
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ROME (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV has named two American bishops as members of the Vatican's highest court, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura....
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(OSV News) -- The theme of this year's World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly draws on a powerful promise from Scripture: "I will never forget you"...
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(OSV News) -- French top politicians, bishops and family remembered the 85-year-old Father Jacques Hamel 10 years after the priest was murdered by two...
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (OSV News) -- When Jack Lebon, 15, returns to his Texas high school in the fall, he will be able to share a summer experience few...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV offered prayers as firefighters continue to battle massive wildfires in Spain and France that have forced hundreds of thousands...
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(OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV's Sept. 25-28 visit to France is expected to be watched closely for his message to a Europe divided by political tensions and...
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(OSV News) -- The Vatican has pushed back against reports that former Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik has been acquitted in his Vatican criminal trial. In a...
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(OSV News) -- After a pair of earthquakes struck the mountainous region of Junín in Peru, the Catholic Church in the country expressed solidarity...
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ROME (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit to the Benedictine Abbey of Montecassino July 20, where he prayed for peace at the tomb of St. Benedict. Abbot...
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, (OSV News) -- Catholics from every inhabited continent gathered in Castel Gandolfo July 19 as Pope Leo XIV led the Angelus prayer...
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