Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
In a little over a month since his election to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV has appeared to embrace his role as a head of state to promote Catholic principles about peacebuilding, an analyst told OSV News. His actions as a head of state could also impact U.S. diplomacy.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News
As conflict in the Middle East escalated with Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites in Iran and retaliatory drone attacks on Israel, Pope Leo XIV appealed for restraint and renewed the church’s calls for nuclear disarmament and peaceful dialogue.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Sports, Vatican, World News
he June 14 celebration, organized by the Archdiocese of Chicago, included a series of short video clips and first-ever airing of Pope Leo XIV’s video message to the world’s youth at Rate Field on Chicago’s Southside.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Sports, Vatican, World News
Sport, with its demands for self-giving, collaboration and perseverance, reflects the beauty and dynamic love of God, Pope Leo XIV said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News
The Vatican can take three key steps to provide greater assistance than it already has in securing the return of Ukrainian children forcibly taken by Russia, a Ukrainian child advocate and former government official told OSV News.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati together Sept. 7, the Vatican announced.
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Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News
In an interview with OSV News, Louis Prevost said that it was more than just Robert being “the baby of the family. … There was an air about him. I mean the spirit coming out of his physical body as he grew older.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to victims’ families after an Air India flight headed to London Gatwick airport crashed shortly after takeoff in the western city of Ahmedabad.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News
The cultural and pastoral diversity among clergy is not a burden but a gift that should enrich communion within the church rather than fragment it, Pope Leo XIV told the priests and deacons of the Diocese of Rome.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Bishops, News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV will revive a tradition begun by St. John Paul II in 1983 by personally placing a pallium around the shoulders of recently named archbishops.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
The Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank, reported increased profits in 2024 and gave a slightly larger dividend check to Pope Francis, who used the entire amount for charity.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News
Pope Leo XIV met with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres during a private audience at the Vatican June 11.
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