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The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus of $1.86 million

The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus...

St. Peter’s Square during the declaration of St. John Henry Newman a doctor of t...

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Pope Leo offers Lebanon a way to hope ‘even when surrounded by the sound of weapons’

Pope Leo offers Lebanon a way to hope ‘even when surrou...

Pope Leo XIV addressed Lebanon’s bishops, clergy, and pastoral workers at Hariss...

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Pope Leo tells Lebanese religious leaders unity and peace are possible

Pope Leo tells Lebanese religious leaders unity and pea...

Pope Leo XIV in Harissa, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Beir...

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Pope Leo to Lebanese youth: Love, not retaliation, is the real answer to evil

Pope Leo to Lebanese youth: Love, not retaliation, is t...

Pope Leo XIV greets a young mother and her child outside of the Monastery of St....

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Aid to the Church in Need welcomes appointment of Cardinal Koch as its new president

Aid to the Church in Need welcomes appointment of Cardi...

Cardinal Kurt Koch during an interview with EWTN News. / Credit: EWTN News ACI ...

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The Ultimate Francophile Gift Guide

The Ultimate Francophile Gift Guide

We’ve scoured high and low to handpick the most exquisite gifts for la belle vi...

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Pope Leo XIV marks Nicaea anniversary, urges Christians to overcome divisions

Pope Leo XIV marks Nicaea anniversary, urges Christians...

Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at an ecum...

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Vatican's 2025 Christmas tree installed in St. Peter's Square

Vatican's 2025 Christmas tree installed in St....

Workers erect the Vatican's 2025 Christmas tree in St. Peter's Square on Thursda...

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Pope Leo shares ‘secret of Christian charity’ with Little Sisters of the Poor

Pope Leo shares ‘secret of Christian charity’ with Litt...

Pope Leo XIV visits a care home for the elderly run by a community of the Little...

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Pope Leo reminds Turkish Catholic minority of the ‘logic of littleness’

Pope Leo reminds Turkish Catholic minority of the ‘logi...

Pope Leo XIV encourages Catholic clergy, religious brothers and sisters, and lay...

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Pope arrives in Turkey giving thanks, preaching peace

Pope arrives in Turkey giving thanks, preaching peace

Pope Leo XIV began his first papal trip speaking of dialogue, peace and thanksgi...

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UN report: Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed somewhere in the world

UN report: Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed somewher...

Nov. 25 is observed as International Day for the Elimination of Violence against...

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Catholic bishops offer prayers for National Guard members shot in DC

Catholic bishops offer prayers for National Guard membe...

The midafternoon attack, believed to be perpetrated by a lone suspect now in cus...

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Former business manager charged with stealing $1.1 million from suburban Philadelphia parish

Former business manager charged with stealing $1.1 mill...

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — A former business manager at a suburban Philadelphia p...

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Pew: US Latinos disapprove of Trump’s immigration, economic policies

Pew: US Latinos disapprove of Trump’s immigration, econ...

Most of the nation's Latinos disapprove of President Donald Trump's hardline imm...

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Pope to give 2025 Ratzinger Prize to conductor Riccardo Muti at Christmas concert

Pope to give 2025 Ratzinger Prize to conductor Riccardo...

Conductor Riccardo Muti has been awarded the 2025 Ratzinger Prize. / Credit: Ric...