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Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, left, a former Vatican diplomat who served in Washington, talks to his lawyer during his sentencing in a Vatican court in this June 23, 2018, file photo.

Priest convicted of distributing, possessing child pornography said to still work at Vatican

Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, a former Vatican diplomat who was convicted of distributing and possessing child pornography, continues to work at the Vatican Secretariat of State as one of several clerks, a report says.
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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

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

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’

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

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

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

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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