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Pope Leo celebrates Mass with 2.5 million people in heart of Buenos Aires

by Courtney Mares

“Dear families, I encourage you to take a leading role in evangelization! The Church in Argentina needs you,” the pope said in his homily at the iconic Buenos …

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Pope Leo XIV arrives in Argentina, meets President Milei while urging respectful dialogue

U.S. Church

‘Decisive action’ needed at upcoming UN climate conference, say Catholic leaders

by Gina Christian

“Young people in particular are leading” the response to climate change, “demanding climate justice for their generation and generations to come.”

Over 90 US lawmakers call for Pope Leo to address next Congress in bipartisan letter

‘Decisive action’ needed at upcoming UN climate conference, say Catholic leaders

Catholic death penalty opponents praise Newsom for commuting California death sentences

Vatican upholds excommunication of former deacon, who plans to appeal

Bishop: Church upholds value of every human life, even ‘those who have committed horrible crimes’

World

In secular Uruguay, Pope Leo urges Catholics to find strength in being few

by Josephine Peterson

In Uruguay, Latin America’s most secular country, Pope Leo XIV received a welcome from tens of thousands that surprised even longtime Vatican observers.

Pope Leo shares advice for Catholic parents whose children left the faith at Uruguay’s national shrine
UK honoring Pope Leo indicates new closeness in ties, Church leaders say
Pope Leo’s visit to Argentine disability home carries pastoral — and political — weight
At Peruvian shrine, Pope Leo will return to the missionary model that shaped him
Pope Leo heads to a divided Argentina still reckoning with Francis’ legacy

It takes courage to stand for — not against — something, pope tells young people

Pope warns economic inequality threatens peace, urges politicians to serve common good

Bread under fire: Pope Leo’s envoy witnesses hunger in war-torn Ukraine

Vatican

Pope makes call for evangelization in secular Uruguay

by David Agren

Opinion

Blaming Autumn: Unjust cranks in this excellent season of wonder

by Elizabeth Scalia

Beneath our division lies a crisis of dehumanization

by Vicente Del Real

The courage to risk death for life

by Katie Yoder

Reviews

The Cat in the Hat

by John Mulderig
The Mongoose
Movie review: Wicker
Sense and Sensibility
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