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Pope Leo XIV meets with Ukrainian children who were welcomed by Caritas Italy during the summer on July 3, 2025, at the Vatican.

Caritas Ukraine leads efforts to reintegrate children taken by Russia in war

Nov 26, 2025

By Zoe Romanowsky

At the forefront of the work of repatriation and recovery of Ukrainian children swept up in the country’s war with... Read more

LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

Religious sisters announce historic land return to Wisconsin Native American tribe

Nov 7, 2025

By Daniel Payne

The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration announced the transfer of land back to the Lac du Flambeau Band of the... Read more

A color guard stands at attention as Eliza Monroe Hay’s remains are carried for reinterment at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025.

In Virginia, a Founding Father’s Catholic daughter is laid to rest after 185 years

Oct 23, 2025

By Daniel Payne

The Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, held Eliza Monroe Hay’s reinterment at the top of Hollywood Cemetery overlooking the James River... Read more

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Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for the Angelus on December 7, 2025.

‘Peace is possible,’ Pope Leo XIV says after visits to Turkey and Lebanon

Promo photo for the The Better Part Journal of shadows of Madonna lilies for the Blessed Virgin Mary.

New print journal for ‘intellectual Catholic women’ to be released in April

Pope Leo XIV receives an electric lawn mower from Czech manufacturer Swardman during a general audience in mid-November 2025.

You heard of the popemobile, now meet the papal lawn mower

A still from “Trailblazers of Faith: The Legacy of African American Catholics,” which tells the inspiring story of how African Americans found a home in Catholicism without abandoning their identity or culture. Those pictured are the African Americans currently on the path to sainthood: Venerable Henriette DeLille, Julia Greeley, Father Augustus Tolton, Mother Mary Lange, Pierre Toussaint, and Sister Thea Bowman.

Hidden Catholic histories come alive in new Black and Native American films

The “Sons of Thunder” vocations club at St. Bartholomew Church in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.

‘Sons of Thunder’ vocations group teaches boys how to be Catholic men

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, speaks with members of Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), during a Dec. 5, 2025 fundraising dinner to support of Christians in the Holy Land at St. John's Resort in Plymouth, Michigan.

On visit to Detroit, patriarch of Jerusalem focuses on hope for Holy Land Christians

The Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Archdiocese prays St. Andrew novena for fallen away Catholics

Chris Pratt speaks at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego.

Christ Pratt to release documentary on tomb of St. Peter

Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, president of the Slovak Bishops’ Conference, blesses the new mosaic of Our Lady of Sorrows in the Vatican Gardens at a ceremony attended by Slovak President Peter Pellegrini and Vatican officials on Dec. 5, 2025

New Slovak Virgin Mary mosaic highlights spiritual bonds between Slovakia and Vatican

Statue of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Bari, Italy, at the Pontifical Basilica of St. Nicholas.

The saint of Christmas and ecumenism: Bari celebrates St. Nicholas

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