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Bishop of Udupi Catholic Diocese Leslie Clifford DSouza meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Bishop of the Udupi Catholic Diocese Leslie Clifford D’Souza met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday to receive his blessings after assuming office. Pope Leo met all newly appointed Bishops from…
Pope Leo XIV arrives in the popemobile at Plaza de Lima in Madrid on June 6, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Leo XIV has thrown his support behind the United States ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, offering a boost to the cohost nation as the tournament prepares to get underway on June…
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U.S. President Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump launched a sharp rhetorical attack against Pope Leo XIV and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson following their recent meeting in Rome, suggesting that Vatican officials should have cautioned the pontiff against hosting the Democratic leader, whom he labelled as “useless”. Taking to his social…
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The Catholic Church has survived over two millennia of collapsing empires, plagues, schisms, and televangelists, so it probably says something about the current state of technology that Pope Leo XIV chose artificial intelligence as the defining subject of his first encyclical, the formal papal teaching document intended to shape long-term Catholic doctrine. Released this month…
Illegal waste is seen on the side of a road in the outskirts of the southern Italian town of Acerra in the Terra dei Fuochi, or Land of Fires, an area scarred by decades of pollution from illegal waste dumping and burning, much of it linked to organized criminal groups, on May 22, 2026, a…
This picture, taken on April 14, 2026, shows the front pages of some Italian newspapers reporting on comments by U.S. President Donald Trump about Pope Leo XIV, with headlines using words such as “outrage”, “shock attack”, “insult”, and Trump’s schism”. | Photo Credit: AP On April 12, U.S. President Donald Trump declared on his social…
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Pope Leo XIV holds a holy Mass for peace and justice at Bamenda airport in Bamenda, Cameroon, on April 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pope Leo XIV blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation as he preached a message of peace on Thursday (April 16, 2026) in the…
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Pope Leo XIV greets the crowd as he arrives surrounded by security for a meeting with youths in Bkerki, the seat of the Maronite Church, in Lebanon, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Leo XIV prayed on Monday (December 1) at the tomb of a Lebanese saint revered among Christians and…
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Turkiye on Thursday (November 27, 2025) on his first foreign trip, fulfilling Pope Francis’ plans to mark an important Christian anniversary and bring a message of peace to the region at a crucial time in efforts to end the war in Ukraine and ease Mideast tensions. Pope Leo’s charter plane…
Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people and compounded Lebanon’s economic and political crisis during his first foreign trip as Pope next month, which will also take him to Turkiye to mark an important anniversary with Orthodox Christians. The Vatican on Monday…
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