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Pope Leo year one: How Chiclayo’s bishop brought his grounded leadership to a global church

by Ines San Martin

When Pope Leo XIV was elected to the papacy on May 8, 2025, few felt the change more personally than those who had known him before.

Timeline: Highlights from Pope Leo XIV’s first year
Catholic groups stress efforts to combat hunger as Senate prepares to consider farm bill
Priests often serve as first responders for those struggling with mental health, experts say
Minnesota state senators recall Annunciation shooting as omnibus firearms bill passes
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Pope Leo XIV discuss Iran war at Vatican meeting
Pope Leo XIV expected in France this September for Lourdes, Paris visit

U.S. Church

Bank transformed into Virginia church now a ‘worthy space for worship, prayer, praise’

by Joe Staniunas | The Catholic Virginian

Bishop Knestout also blessed work done by faithful volunteers, including the ceiling stencils and the altar in the sanctuary that holds the tabernacle.

New data analysis provides baseline for weighing options on unauthorized immigration, say experts

Americans disapprove of Trump’s comments about Pope Leo XIV, poll shows

Americans continue to feel drawn to Pope Leo, first American pontiff, a year after election

From his shrine to hers: ‘Mini-Camino’ walks from St. Joseph to Our Lady of Champion

Bishops’ pro-life chair ‘urgently’ encourages FDA to proceed with safety review on mifepristone

Colorado’s newest shrine has long been place of ‘prayer and communion’ amid ‘beauty of creation’

World

Lebanese priests overjoyed by a surprise video call from Pope Leo

by Dale Gavlak

“First, it was a surprise, then it was a great joy,” Lebanese Maronite Catholic parish priest in Rmeich, Father Toni Elias, told OSV News.

Catholic bishops in Africa urge end to xenophobic attacks in South Africa
The Church must speak clearly, decisively against all evil, pope says
God’s diplomat: Pope Leo XIV and his strategy to speak Gospel to power
Historic Catholic church in Mozambique destroyed in ‘scene of terror’ by Islamic extremists
Christian sites under attack in Holy Land as violence and displacement intensify

Pope Leo condemns violence after bomb attack in Colombia

Suspect arrested for assault against French nun in Jerusalem

Benedictine abbot warns of Holy Land becoming ‘Christian Disneyland’

Vatican

UFOs, extraterrestrial life explored at Vatican parish event

by Robert Duncan

Opinion

Catholicism in the Lower South: Thriving communities built on French and Spanish foundations

by Father Anthony D. Andreassi

‘Pope Leo XIV: The Biography’: A Vatican insider tells the pope’s tale, from southside Chicago to Rome

by Kimberley Heatherington

What the Easter Scriptures teach us about how to live as family

by Laura Kelly Fanucci

Reviews

The Sheep Detectives

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