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Pope Leo XIV greets a participant in an international conference on the pastoral care of the elderly organized by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life at the Vatican Oct. 3, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
5 takeaways from Pope Leo's message for the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly
Source of All Hope missionaries Erin Kelter, left, and Daniel Otto, right, pray with Keith Quigg, a man experiencing homelessness, at the corner of Greene and West Lombard streets in Baltimore April 14, 2026. (OSV News photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
Young Catholic missionaries bring hope to Baltimore's homeless population
Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Liberta in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, July 26, 2026. He appealed for dialogue, diplomacy and prayers for a just peace in the Holy Land and the Middle East. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
Pope Leo appeals for dialogue, diplomacy, prayers for just peace in Holy Land, Middle East
Andrea Bocelli performs during the World Meeting on Human Fraternity in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 10, 2023. Bocelli will sing for Pope Leo XIV with a choir of 160 children from the Holy Land, Uganda and Italy in the Vatican Gardens in Castel Gandolfo on July 29, 2026, in a special performance organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Andrea Bocelli to sing for Pope Leo with international children's choir
Journalists Lola Gómez, Jovel Álvarez, José Arnaldo Mujica, and Daniel Cáceres launched "Cartas para el Papa" ("Letters to the Pope") to bring the voices of Venezuela's June 24, 2026, earthquake victims to Pope Leo XIV. The team is collecting letters and photos online until Aug. 15 to hand-deliver to the pope during his apostolic visit to France in September. (OSV News photo/Lola Gomez)
Journalists launch initiative to bring letters from Venezuelan quake survivors to Pope Leo XIV
The Vatican has pushed back against reports that former Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik, pictured in 2019, has been acquitted in his Vatican criminal trial. In a July 22, 2026, statement, the Vatican said rumors of an acquittal are "completely unfounded" and confirmed the canonical trial is still under review. Officials said judges continue examining evidence from dioceses, the Jesuits, alleged victims and media reports. (OSV News photo/Reuters)
After attorney pressed for transparency, Vatican answers rumors of Rupnik's alleged acquittal
Performers depict the origin story of Our Lady of Guadalupe during a special performance of "Misa Azteca" at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on June 27, 2026. (OSV News photo/Reese Cuevas, courtesy Archdiocese of Los Angeles)
'Misa Azteca' at LA cathedral mixes Catholic faith with Mexico's Indigenous culture
Ann Teresa O'Neill is pictured in an undated photo with Pope John XXIII in Rome. O’Neill, whose confirmed miraculous cure from acute lymphatic leukemia as a child led to the canonization of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, died July 17, 2026, at her home in Easton, Md. She was 78. (OSV News photo/courtesy Ann Teresa O'Neill)
Woman whose confirmed miracle as child led to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's canonization dies at 78
A boy poses for a photo while holding a smartphone in front of a screen displaying characters of a U.S. children's video game featured on Roblox, an online gaming platform, in this Dec. 8, 2025, illustration. The sentencing of a convicted online child predator to a 40-year prison term July 8, 2026, and renewed safety warnings from federal officials mark a call for parents to double down on protecting their kids in the digital sphere, a Catholic legal scholar told OSV News. (OSV News Illustration/Ramil Sitdi
Violent extremist's sentencing a call to protect kids online, says Catholic legal scholar
A file photo shows a couple on their wedding day. (OSV News photo/Handout via Laura Dodson)
What love teaches us about God
Pope Leo XIV visits the tomb of Sts. Benedict and Scholastica during a visit to Benedictine Abbey of Montecassino in the town of Cassino, Italy, July 20, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV makes surprise visit to pray for peace at the tomb of St. Benedict 
Vínicius Marques Diniz, 22 years old, first from right, came to Castel Gandolfo, Italy, to pray with the pope with his family from Campo Grande, Brazil, July 19, 2026. (OSV News photo/Courtney Mares)
Pope Leo XIV in Castel Gandolfo: God's kingdom grows in the 'little things of daily life'
Akram Al-Fayoumi, 13, who lost his right foot and left hand after an Israeli strike on the Abdel Fattah Hamouda school, plays in a street in Gaza May 13, 2026. (OSV News photo/Mahmoud Issa, Reuters)
For Gaza Christians, World Cup final offers brief respite from horrors of war
A file photo shows a replica of the famed Porziuncola chapel in Assisi, Italy, inside San Francisco's National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. (OSV News photo/Dan Morris-Young, Catholic San Francisco)
Can't go to Assisi? Visit a US replica of the tiny church where St. Francis founded order
Place one of Western civilization's foundational texts in the hands of one of the entertainment industry's greatest living auteurs and the results are likely to be impressive. And so it proves with "The Odyssey" (Universal), writer-director Christopher Nolan's lavish and absorbing adaptation of Homer's epic poem.
Move Review: The Odyssey
Pilgrims process during the 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in Savannah, Ga., May 27. As the Georgia Martyrs' Oct. 31 beatification approaches, pilgrims hoping to learn more about them and walk in their footsteps are able to visit a handful of identified sites. (OSV News photo/courtesy John Paul Flynn)
Pilgrims walk in the steps of the Georgia Martyrs 
A family is pictured in a file photo praying before Mass. (OSV News photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)
Five times to pray on the go
Juana Aiskel Fumero, mother of Ashley Martinez, 29, and grandmother of Kalani Martinez, 2, who were killed in the June 24, 2026, earthquakes, carries Kalani's ashes, while Zuleiry Martinez carries Ashley's ashes, to be buried at Tarmas cemetery, in La Guaira, Venezuela, July 15. Two catastrophic earthquakes hit Venezuela in quick succession, leaving at least 5,000 dead with thousands still missing. (OSV News photo/Pablo Sanhueza, Reuters)
Death toll in Venezuela nears 5,000 as earthquake recovery intensifies
Pope Leo XIV poses for a photo with two young boys at a lunch with vulnerable people from the Diocese of Rome at Borgo Laudato Si, in the pontifical gardens of Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 11, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Catholic group helps parishes to share a table with the poor, following pope's example
Father Vijay Kiran, a chaplain at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence, R.I., seen in an undated photo, displays some of the memorabilia he has collected over the years about St. John Paul II and St. Teresa of Kolkata. Upon his retirement from active ministry in July 2026, the Indian priest plans to return to Bangalore in his home country to open a long-planned museum and library honoring Mary and the two saints. (OSV News photo/Rick Snizek, Rhode Island Catholic)
Priest's museum in India will honor John Paul II, Mother Teresa and offer 'silent evangelization'
St. John Paul II addresses a press conference with President Jimmy Carter in the Rose Garden at the White House Oct. 6, 1979. He was the first pope to visit the White House, During his papacy, St. John Paul made seven visits to the United States. (OSV News photo/Chris Sheridan)
Exhibit highlights St. John Paul II's US visits, esteem for nation's foundational documents
Medical personnel are pictured in an undated photo preparing a patient for cataract surgery in Guatemala. Hospital Oftalmológico Visualiza in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala, opened Nov. 7, 2025, and became the fourth in a planned system of eight eye hospitals and 38 clinics across the Central American country. (OSV News photo/courtesy Seva Foundation)
Faith leads effort to end preventable blindness in Guatemala and beyond
During a papal audience at the Vatican June 24, 2026, former White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski presents Pope Leo XIV with “the Ball” -- from the final out of Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
How a baseball rosary found its way to Pope Leo XIV
Helping build a Habitat for Humanity home in St. Paul, Minn., July 8, 2026, are Angie Davis, construction assistant for Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity; Will Skobba, site supervisor; Chris Coleman, president and CEO of the Twin Cities Habitat affiliate; Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis; and Leslie Varela, a student at St. Catherine University in St. Paul. The home is part of the Pope Leo Village movement, a national interfaith, multicity housing initiative inspired by Pope Leo XIV.(O
Donning hardhats, Archbishop Hebda, students help raise wall for Pope Leo Village in St. Paul
Pope Leo leads the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Liberta in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Italy, July 12, 2026. (OSV News photo/Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters)
Pilgrims flock to Castel Gandolfo for Pope Leo’s first summer Angelus
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