Addressing Pope Leo XIV, Madonna wrote: “Most Holy Father. Please go to Gaza and bring your light to the children before it’s too late. As a mother, I cannot bear to watch their suffering.”
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Pope Leo XIV marks 56th anniversary of moon landing with observatory visit and a call to Buzz Aldrin
Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of man’s arrival on the moon Sunday with a visit to the Vatican astronomical observatory in Castel Gandolfo and a call to astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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Pope Leo XIV names first Chinese bishop, signaling he is continuing controversial Vatican-China deal
Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is continuing one of Pope Francis’ most controversial foreign policy decisions.
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Pope Francis to make late Italian teenager Carlo Acutis the first millennial and digital saint on April 27
Pope Francis said he will canonize Carlo Acutis next April, setting the eagerly awaited date for the late teenager to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint.
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Xavier of New Orleans may soon have country’s first historically Black and Catholic medical school
Xavier University, a small Catholic and historically Black school in New Orleans, formally signed an agreement with Ochsner Health to establish a medical school.
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Pope Francis warns against ‘radical individualism’ ahead of meeting with Argentina’s libertarian president
On Sunday Francis will canonize Mama Antula in a ceremony that will also mark his first meeting with Argentina’s new libertarian president, Javier Milei.
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New executive director joins outreach initiative for LGBTQ Catholics
Journalist and author Michael O’Loughlin, the national correspondent at America Media, has been appointed the first executive director of Outreach.
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Pope Francis marks Holocaust Remembrance Day as antisemitism rises in Europe
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Francis invoked the extermination of Jews to remind the world that war can never be justified.
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Nicaraguan bishop and 18 priests released from prison and handed over to Vatican authorities
Nicaragua’s government released a prominent Catholic bishop and 18 other clergy members imprisoned in a crackdown by President Daniel Ortega and handed them over to Vatican authorities.
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Sexual abuse case against defrocked Cardinal McCarrick suspended in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin judge suspended charges against defrocked Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the 1970s, ruling he is incompetent for trial because of dementia.