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Rock formations are seen along Lake Powell in Page, Ariz., Nov. 23, 2024. Pope Francis released his landmark environmental encyclical "Laudato Si'" 10 years ago May 24, 2015.

As ‘Laudato Si” turns 10, experts urge greater response to pope’s urgent message on climate

May 22, 2025
With the 10th anniversary of the late pope's "Laudato Si'" approaching May 24, experts wonder: Have we been listening?
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Venezuelan migrants arrive on a deportation flight from the U.S. at Simon Bolivar International airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Feb. 10, 2025.

High court’s decision to allow 350,000 Venezuelans to lose TPS disturbs Catholic advocates

May 21, 2025
Catholic immigration advocates said they were "disturbed" by a Supreme Court order allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections from deportation for about 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants.
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A tribute to Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, is displayed inside the Rate Field baseball stadium in Chicago, May 9, 2025, before a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins.

Chicago Archdiocese, White Sox team up to celebrate Pope Leo and his ‘message of peace’

May 20, 2025
The Archdiocese of Chicago has scheduled a Mass and a special program June 14 to celebrate the election and inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, a native son of the Windy City.
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Pope Leo XIV poses for a photograph with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette Dousdebes Rubio, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 19, 2025.

Pope Leo meets with US Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio

May 19, 2025
The day after his inauguration Mass, Pope Leo XIV had a closed-door meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Vatican.
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer looks on as a bus transporting detained people leaves the Department of Homeland Security field office in Nashville, where multiple immigrant rights groups gathered to protest what they believe to be a multi-agency operation to detain-noncitizens overnight in Nashville, Tenn., May 4, 2025. (OSV News photo/Seth Herald, Reuters)

Tennessee diocese clarifies Mass obligations amid immigration crackdown

May 16, 2025
Amid an immigration enforcement operation in Nashville, Tennessee, the Diocese of Nashville is reminding faithful that they are not required to attend Sunday Mass.
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A child looks on at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip April 17, 2025, on a tent camp sheltering displaced people. (OSV News photo/Hatem Khaled, Reuters)

Jerusalem patriarch, back in Holy Land, reflects on conclave, Gaza situation

May 15, 2025
The importance of continuity and diversity as well as the issues of war and peace were a main topic of conversation for the 133 cardinals as they gathered to vote in the conclave May 7-8, said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin ...
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Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican as he leads, for the first time, the midday recitation of the "Regina Coeli" prayer May 11, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Quietly, without flashiness, Pope Leo strives toward unity

May 14, 2025
Following the April 21 death of Pope Francis, a great curiosity hovered across the world as the College of Cardinals entered into mourning and prepared to elect a new pope.
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