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Pope Leo XIV address papal representatives on June 10, 2025, at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV: The Church ‘will always defend the sacred right to believe in God’

Jun 10, 2025

By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú

In the June 10 speech delivered in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, Pope Leo XIV thanked the... Read more

Msgr. Peter Bryan Wells.

High-ranking American in Vatican 'humbled' by appointment as nuncio

Feb 9, 2016

By Elise Harris

On Tuesday it was announced that Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Peter Bryan Wells, the highest ranking American in the... Read more

Pope Francis leads the Bishops of Italy in a solemn Profession of Faith in St. Peter’s Basilica for their 65th General Assembly May 23, 2013.

Pope to future diplomats: 'don't be ridiculous'

Jun 6, 2013

Pope Francis warned priests studying to serve in the papal diplomatic corps and the Vatican’s Secretariat of State not to... Read more