Archive for May 12, 2025

A Planned Parenthood facility in Indianapolis.?w=200&h=150

By Tessa Gervasini

Campaign to defund Planned Parenthood swings into high gear

On May 7, digital ads from pro-life organization Live Action lit up Times Square, urging New Yorkers to help defund... Read more

Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists on May 12, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.?w=200&h=150

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Leo XIV to media: Thank you ‘for your service to the truth’

In his first address to international media on Monday, Pope Leo XIV thanked journalists for their service to the truth... Read more

A burnt scooter on May 9, 2025, stands on the spot where twins Zian Khan and Urwa Fatima died on May 7 during Pakistani artillery shelling in the main town of Poonch district.?w=200&h=150

By Anto Akkara

Catholic school hit, 3 students killed in India-Pakistan conflict; pope hails ceasefire

Indian security forces launched aerial assaults against what they said were nine terrorist centers inside Pakistan early on May 7.... Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a press conference after a meeting of European leaders in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on May 10, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

Pope Leo XIV, Zelenskyy hold first phone call about Russia-Ukraine war, Vatican says

The Holy See Press Office confirmed on Monday that the two leaders had spoken after the pope expressed concern for... Read more

Bishop Robert Francis Prevost was named prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops on Jan. 30, 2023.?w=200&h=150

By Kristina Millare

10 countries Pope Leo XIV visited before becoming pope

Here are some of the countries the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV has visited — or where he has been based... Read more

Pope Leo XIV, when he was a bishop, received the Gold Medal of St. Toribio de Mogrovejo from the Peruvian bishops in 2023.?w=200&h=150

By Walter Sánchez Silva

Leo XIV, in 2023, acknowledged previous meetings with Pope Francis in which they disagreed

In 2023, then-Bishop Robert Prevost recalled his early meetings with Pope Francis when the latter was archbishop of Buenos Aires... Read more

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By Kate Quiñones

California pregnancy centers appeal abortion pill reversal censorship

The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) and the SCV Pregnancy Center are asking the court to stop... Read more

Pope Leo XIV smiles as a jubilant crowd joins in prayer on Sunday, May 11, 2025.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Leo XIV papacy could mean increased charitable giving, Papal Foundation president says

The president of the Papal Foundation, which carries out the Holy Father’s humanitarian aid projects, thinks Leo XIV’s papacy might... Read more

Archbishop Julian Porteous.?w=200&h=150

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Australian archbishop promotes ecumenical creed on human sexuality

Archbishop Julian Porteous of Hobart is among some 6,000 initial signatories of the “Australian Creed for Sexual Integrity,” a statement... Read more

U.S. Navy LSTs and other vessels unloading at low tide at Normandy, soon after the June 1944 invasion. USS LST-55 is in the center, behind the closest barrage balloon. USS LST-61 is at right.?w=200&h=150

By Tessa Gervasini

Pope Leo’s ‘greatest generation’ dad served on D-Day tank landing ship

Louis Marius Prevost, the father of Pope Leo XIV, served on a D-Day landing ship during World War II. Read more

Mikal Mahdi.?w=200&h=150

By Tyler Arnold

Lawyers for Mikal Mahdi allege ‘botched’ firing squad execution in South Carolina

According to a status report filed by Mikal Mahdi’s lawyers, the autopsy and eyewitness accounts of his death raise several... Read more

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St. Paul’s Hospital, operated by Providence Health Care, has a MAID facility on its campus, operated by the British Columbia government’s Vancouver Coastal Health.

Euthanasia facility quietly opens at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver

Auxiliary Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera is secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Vatican secretary for protection of minors: ‘Harming a victim is harming the image of God’

Smoke from incense drifts in the air at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, where the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage concluded on June 22, 2025.

National Eucharistic Pilgrimage concludes with Corpus Christi Mass in LA

Pope Leo XIV leads a Eucharistic procession in Rome on June 22, 2025, for the feast of Corpus Christi.

Christ is God’s answer to humanity’s hunger, Pope Leo XIV affirms on Corpus Christi

Pope Leo XIV speaks to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Sunday Angelus on June 22, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV after U.S. bombings in Iran: ‘Humanity cries out and pleads for peace’

Despite being Yazidi, a religious minority that has suffered persecution in Iraq, Wael Jejo Khdeida, along with his wife, tends to Mar Odisho Church in northern Iraq without pay and treats it as sacred.

‘The church comes first’: A Yazidi family’s promise to protect a Christian sacred site

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From heartache to hope: One woman’s mission to match Catholics for marriage

A life-sized statue of Christ is displayed at the site of the Stations of the Cross garden in Maysville, Kentucky, Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

Kentucky political leader builds life-sized Stations of the Cross garden

Pope Leo XIV tells political leaders that “natural law, which is universally valid apart from and above other more debatable beliefs, constitutes the compass by which to take our bearings in legislating and acting” at the Jubilee of Governments on June 21, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV tells politicians that AI should serve human beings, not replace them

Venerable Enrique Shaw.

Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw one step closer to beatification

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