Participating in the ecumenical Season of Creation, Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of September is “for our relationship with all of creation.”
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Annunciation pastor calls first Sunday Mass after church shooting a ‘humble beginning’
Recalling the fear and the cries from students, parents and school staff to “get low, stay down, stay down, don’t get up” as bullets tore through Annunciation church at an all-school Mass in Minneapolis, Father Dennis Zehren, the pastor, said it marked a new beginning.
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Pope Leo named one of top 100 A.I. influencers by Time magazine
If Leo XIV continues to marshal the world’s Catholics against AI’s alienating potential, Time said, “Silicon Valley faces a formidable—and unexpected—spiritual counterweight.”
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Pope Leo talks about what St. Augustine has given him in new video message
“So much of who I am I owe to the spirit and the teachings of St. Augustine,” Pope Leo XIV told his Augustinian confreres and their benefactors who were celebrating the saint’s feast day in Philadelphia.
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Fletcher loved his family, Harper was a ‘joyful’ big sister: Annunciation shooting victims mourned
The parents of both children confirmed as victims of the Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church issued their first statements in the aftermath, mourning the loss of their children.
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Pope Leo sends prayers after 2 children killed, 17 injured, in Minneapolis Catholic school shooting
A deadly mass shooting took place the morning of Aug. 27 at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis shortly after the start of the school day during an all-school Mass at the adjacent Annunciation Catholic Church.
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Pope Leo’s first World Peace Day message draws from his first public greeting
The Vatican announced the theme of Pope Leo’s 2026 World Peace Day message will be: “Peace be with you all: Towards an ‘unarmed and disarming’ peace.”
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after surrendering to ICE
“Deporting him to Uganda far away from his family reveals the cruelty embedded in this administration’s immigration policies,” J. Kevin Appleby, senior fellow for policy at the Center for Migration Studies in New York.
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Priest’s St. Monica Project helps accompany parents whose children have left the faith
“It’s a devotion that I created to help parents — and to encourage parents — in their prayer for their children to return to the practice of the faith,” Father Buhman said ahead of St. Monica’s feast day on Aug. 27.
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Pope Leo encouraged vocations to the priesthood in meeting with French altar servers
“I speak to your young, enthusiastic and generous consciences,” the pope said, “and I will tell you something you must hear, even if it may trouble you a bit: the lack of priests in France, and in the world, is a great misfortune!”