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Pope Leo XIV listens during the opening session of an international conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," at the Mariapolis Center in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Oct. 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

World must come together to fight climate change, Pope Leo says

October 3, 2025
People of faith cannot love God while despising his creatures, and people cannot call themselves Christians without caring for everything fragile and wounded, including the earth, Pope Leo XIV told climate activists and political and religious leaders.
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Supreme Court to review Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case

March 23, 2021
The Supreme Court's March 22 announcement that it would hear a government appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brings the death penalty issue in front of the Biden administration.
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Cardinal, imam hold dialogue as follow-up to pope’s meeting with ayatollah

March 22, 2021
With personal warmth paired with the careful phrasing of diplomats, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory and Imam Sayyid M. B. Kashmiri, a representative of Shiite Muslims in North America, held a dialogue on Christian-Muslim relations March 17.
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Sister Jean, Loyola Chicago’s biggest fan, returns to March Madness

March 19, 2021
A year after it was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA basketball tournament is back. And one of the sport's most beloved fans will have a shot at witnessing any buzzer-beaters by her favorite team in person, too.
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Tackling racism is difficult work, but it must be done, says Bishop Fabre

March 18, 2021
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS) -- The work it takes to respond to the issue of racism in the church and the wider community is difficult and slow, but it must be done, said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana. Speaking ...
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Quebec bishops distance themselves from Canadian bishops’ vaccine note

March 17, 2021
A note on COVID-19 vaccines from the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops triggered nearly immediate responses from many bishops in Quebec, who felt it was "untimely" and lacked some clarity.
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U.N. condemns Myanmar bloodshed; cardinal criticizes ‘brutality, violence’

March 16, 2021
The United Nations and human right groups have strongly condemned the worsening bloodshed in Myanmar as at least 38 people were killed in the military's crackdown on protesters March 14.
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