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Pope Francis with members of the ‘Pope’s Team - Fratelli tutti’ in the Vatican’s Clementine Hall, Nov. 20, 2021.

Pope Francis meets the ‘Pope’s Team’ ahead of friendly soccer match

Nov 20, 2021

By CNA Staff

The papal team includes Swiss Guards and migrants. Read more

Pope Francis holds a soccer ball in St. Peter's Square during the Wednesday general audience on Aug. 26, 2015. L'Osservatore Romano.

Pope Francis fields Vatican soccer team in friendly match against Roma minority

Nov 11, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

The soccer match is intended to counter racism and discrimination. Read more

Pope Francis speaks to the Roma community in the Lunik IX district in Košice, Slovakia, on Sept. 14, 2021.

Pope Francis visits impoverished Roma minority in Slovakia

Sep 14, 2021

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis visited a Roma ghetto in Slovakia, where he told the ethnic minority they should never “worry about whether... Read more

Roma children practice gymnastics on horseback at an Order of Malta school in Romania.

‘I really pray for these kids’: the Catholic ambassador on a mission to help Europe’s largest minority

Aug 21, 2020

In 2013, Franz Salm-Reifferscheidt made a life-changing visit to Rome. The retired Austrian businessman had an appointment with the Grand... Read more

Pope Francis meets with the Romani people of Rome in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, Oct. 26, 2015.

Pope advises Gypsies to cultivate responsibility, openness

Oct 27, 2015

Pope Francis met with Rome's Romani, or Gypsies, on Monday, asking them to take a new direction and embolden their... Read more

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Catholic Relief Services distributes food for school children at one of the schools in the Department of Totonicapán, Guatemala, with the help of parent volunteers.

Catholic Relief Services loses federal funds for 11 of 13 international food aid programs

Participants at a May 22, 2025, afternoon vigil to honor the two lives lost in an attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., the night before hold signs reading “Christians and Jews united against hate.”

Catholics show solidarity after terrorist attack kills 2 Israeli officials in Washington, DC

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Bishops applaud Educational Choice for Children Act, urge removal of ‘poison pill’ language

State capitol in Dover, Delaware.

Delaware legalizes physician-assisted suicide

Tony McFall wears his father’s cowboy hat while looking over the debris of the house of his father and step-mother, who lost their lives during the tornado in the neighborhood of Sunshine Hills on May 17, 2025, in London, Kentucky. A tornado struck communities in Somerset and London, Kentucky, leaving over 10 dead and more injured.

Catholic Charities aids Midwestern communities devastated by tornadoes

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Catholic health leaders object to House-passed Medicaid reforms in ‘big, beautiful bill’

Pope Leo XIV addresses members of the Pontifical Missions Societies on May 22, 2025, at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV thanks Pontifical Mission Societies for devotion to communion, universality

From the popemobile, Pope Leo XIV greets thousands of people lined up along Via della Conciliazione on the morning of his inaugural Mass, Sunday, May 18, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV appoints nun as secretary of Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life

Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson speaks as (left to right) House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Lisa McClain, Rep. Jason Smith, Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Mark Green, House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise, and House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer listen during a news briefing after a House Republican Conference meeting with President Donald Trump at the U.S. Capitol on May 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Catholics praise defunding of Planned Parenthood in major congressional budget bill

Pope Leo XIV prays in front of the famous icon at the Shrine of the Mother of Good Counsel in Genazzano, Italy, on Saturday, May 10, 2025.

Our Lady of Good Counsel: All about this devotion and Pope Leo XIV’s connection to it

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