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Meetings took place this week between the head of the transitional phase in Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and U.S. President Donald Trump, in the presence of the Saudi Crown Prince, Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh.

U.S. lifts sanctions on Syria, renewing hope for Christians and boosting national economy

May 15, 2025

This week’s announcement by President Donald Trump that the U.S. would fully lift its sanctions on Syria triggered hope in Christians in the war-ravaged country.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, with Sister Mary Bosco of the Sisters of Mercy, a 100-year-old Irish nun who taught him to “love and serve the Lord.”

Cardinal Dolan visits 100-year-old nun who taught him to ‘love and serve the Lord’

May 15, 2025

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, visited Sister Mary Bosco of the Sisters of Mercy, a 100-year-old Irish nun who was his teacher in grade school.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. orders review of abortion pill

May 15, 2025

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the regulation and labeling of the abortion pill mifepristone following new evidence of safety concerns.

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd gathered on St. Peter’ s Square for the Regina Coeli on Sunday, May 11, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV can accelerate ‘Leonine revolution’ in the Church, theologian says

May 15, 2025

George Weigel held a public lecture at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on the “10 Markers of a Church ‘Permanently in Mission’” on Wednesday in Rome.

Pope Leo XIV gives a blessing during a meeting with participants in the Jubilee of Eastern Churches on May 14, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.

All the saints and Church Fathers Pope Leo XIV quoted in his first week

May 15, 2025

The Catholic Church’s first pope from the Augustinian order is already helping to educate the faithful through his deep knowledge of the Church Fathers.

The Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville petition calls for release of Catholic man arrested by immigration officers

May 15, 2025

Catholics in Nashville, Tennessee, are calling for the release of a man arrested by immigration officials last week amid efforts by the government to curb illegal immigration.

Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White reads the thesis of then-Father Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, titled “The Role of the Local Prior in the Order of St. Augustine,” which Prevost wrote while a student at Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in the early 1980s.

Future Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral thesis offers clues to his pontificate 

May 15, 2025

According to the rector of Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope Leo XIV’s doctoral thesis has a vision that could be extended to the papacy.

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134 years later, Rerum Novarum inspires Leo XIV and still shapes Catholic social teaching

May 15, 2025

Today, on the 134th anniversary of the release of Rerum Novarum, CNA takes a look at the significance of this historic encyclical.

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Camp IdRaHaJe in Colorado on May 12, 2025, field a lawsuit against the state government over a state rule allowing males who identify as girls to be given access to girls’ showers, dressing areas, and sleeping facilities.

Christian camp sues Colorado to prevent males from using girls’ showers, sleeping areas

May 15, 2025

Camp IdRaHaJe filed the federal lawsuit against Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood on Monday, May 12.

Pope Leo XIV walks in the corridor of the third loggia of the Apostolic Palace, where the papal apartment is located, on May 12, 2025, in Vatican City.

Pope Leo XIV expected to live in traditional papal apartment unused by Pope Francis

May 15, 2025

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of pontiffs for over a century.

Charitable organizations distribute food to displaced people in shelter tents in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on June 9, 2024.

Wars, climate disasters lead to record-high number of internally displaced people

May 15, 2025

The global number of internally displaced people worldwide skyrocketed to a record high of 83.4 million in 2024, according to a report released Tuesday.

CREDO is a new, global streaming platform for faith-driven content launching on May 28, 2025.

Filmmakers behind Acutis documentary to launch streaming platform, new film on Pope Leo XIV

May 15, 2025

CREDO will launch worldwide on May 28 and is on track to stream Castletown Media’s newest project, “Leo XIV: A Pontiff’s Path” later this year.

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