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Pope laments ‘ashes of international law’ left by today’s conflicts in Ash Wednesday liturgy

Pope Leo XIV, left, arrives, with bishops and cardinals in a penitential procession marking the start of the Catholic Lent,…

February 20, 2026

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Pope to visit Spain this year, with stops in Madrid, Barcelona and Canary Islands, cardinal says

Pope Leo XIV meets faithfuls at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul XI Hall at the…

January 12, 2026 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — The Associated Press

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The pope in a major foreign policy address blasts how countries are using force to assert dominion

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in the Paul XI Hall at the Vatican on Wednesday, Jan. 7,…

January 12, 2026 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — The Associated Press

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Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering

Pope Leo XIV waves after delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' )…

December 25, 2025 • By SILVIA STELLACCI and COLLEEN BARRY — The Associated Press

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Pope Leo XIV sends message of support to southern Lebanon as he ends 1st foreign trip

Pope Leo XIV waves as he boards a flight back to the Vatican after his visit to Lebanon at Beirut…

December 2, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and BASSEM MROUE — Associated Press

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Pope in Lebanon asks for ‘divine gift of peace’ alongside country’s Christian and Muslim leaders

Pope Leo XIV, center, attends an ecumenical and interreligious meeting at Martyrs’ Square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 1,…

December 1, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and ABBY SEWELL — The Associated Press

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Vatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada as gesture of reconciliation

Pope Francis dons a headdress during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwaci, the former Ermineskin Residential School, on Monday,…

October 26, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — The Associated Press

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Pope meets with global group of clergy abuse survivors to talk zero tolerance

Evelyn Korkmaz, left, Gemma Hickey, center, and Matthias Katsch, with Ending Clergy Abuse, a global organization of abuse victims and…

October 20, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — Associated Press

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Pope urges Italy to remain open to migrants during rite of passage visit to presidential palace

Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by Italian President Sergio Mattarella as he arrives at the Quirinale Presidential Palace in Rome…

October 19, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — The Associated Press

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Vatican names judges for trial of former Jesuit artist Rupnik accused of abuse by over 20 women

A mosaic by ex-Jesuit artist Marko Rupnik is seen on the main facade of the Church of Our Lady of…

October 19, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — The Associated Press

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El Paso bishop brings pope desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

Bishop of El Pass Mark Joseph Seitz talks about the situation at the U.S. border with Mexico at the Vatican…

October 12, 2025 • Nicole Winfield — The Associated Press

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Pope Leo XIV to visit Turkey and Lebanon

next month will be first foreign excursion of his papacy

October 11, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — The Associated Press

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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88

FILE – Pope Francis leaves at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican,…

April 21, 2025 • By NICOLE WINFIELD — Associated Press