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Father Renzo Pegoraro, who was named president of the Pontifical Academy for Life by Pope Leo XIV May 27, 2025, is seen in an undated file photo. (CNS photo/courtesy of the Pontifical Academy for Life)
Pope names priest president of the Pontifical Academy for Life
Pope Leo XIV visits the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, May 25, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Communion requires prayer, listening, conversion, pope says
Spanish Bishop Alejandro Labaka Ugarte of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aguarico, Ecuador, left, and Colombian Sister Inés Arango Velásquez, a member of the Capuchin Tertiary Sisters of the Holy Family, are pictured in an undated photo. Pope Leo XIV has advanced the sainthood causes of the two missionaries who worked to protect Indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. (CNS photo/Courtesy of General Curia of the Capuchin Friars Minor)
Pope advances sainthood cause of missionaries killed trying to save Indigenous
Father Mike Schmitz, a priest of the Diocese of Duluth, Minn., and host of "The Bible in a Year" podcast, speaks to the crowd at a previous Parables Tour in 2025. Father Mike took the tour to Constitution Hall in the nation's capital May 19, 2025. (OSV News photo/courtesy Ascension)
Popular priest podcaster takes 'Parables' tour cross-country to sold-out crowds
In this 2019 photo, then-Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Washington joins students at St. Mary's School in Landover Hills, Md., in planting a tree in celebration of the school's 65th anniversary. In advance of the 10th anniversary of the late Pope Francis' encyclical "Laudato Si'," the U.S. bishops' conference recognized the impact the climate crisis has on young people and encouraged their strong witness and leadership for a better future. (OSV News photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)
US bishops urge young people to 'lead the way' on climate crisis
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Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski, a Redemptorist, accepts the gifts during his installation Mass at the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul in Providence, R.I., May 20, 2025. He became the 10th bishop of Providence. (OSV News photo/Laura Kilgus, Rhode Island Catholic)
Baptism calls faithful to 'knock on doors of people's hearts,' says Providence's new bishop
Kimberly Hess, an organist at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, poses for a photo in October 2024 in Sacred Heart of Mary Chapel at Marymount University in Arlington. (OSV News file photo/Ann M. Augherton, The Arlington Catholic Herald)
Memorial Day strikes a chord for organist at Arlington National Cemetery
Pope Leo XIV blesses a baby as he rides in the popemobile around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his first weekly general audience May 21, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
God's love is generous, not calculating, pope says at first audience
Young adults serving as "perpetual pilgrims" on the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage kneel on May 18, 2025, on the grounds of St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis while the Eucharist is placed in the pilgrimage van. The pilgrimage, which started in Indianapolis, will cross 10 states, 20 dioceses and four Eastern Catholic eparchies before concluding June 22, the feast of Corpus Christi, in Los Angeles. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)
'Perpetual pilgrims' start out across US, walking 'with love and truth' to share the Gospel
Pope Leo XIV meets with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 19, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo meets with US Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Rubio
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Pope Leo begins papacy calling for 'united church' in a wounded world
A drone view May 9, 2025, shows St. Mary of the Assumption Church at the very southern edge of Chicago, where Pope Leo XIV attended Mass with his family while he was growing up. The church, vacant since 2011, is now in the planning stages for a possible community center, workers' training program and place of worship for area church congregations. (OSV News photo/Carlos Osorio, Reuters)
Pope Leo XIV's election gives new hope to Dolton, Ill., and the church that formed him
The Tumblr application is seen on a mobile phone in this illustration photo March 7, 2018. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a 10th anniversary edition of the bishops' pastoral on pornography, "Create in Me a Pure Heart," with a new preface. The title, slightly modified for its 10th anniversary, evokes Psalm 51. (OSV News illustration/Thomas White, Reuters)
US bishops release updated pastoral letter on pornography amid rise in sexual  exploitation
Pope Leo XIV greets Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, during a meeting with participants in the Jubilee of the Eastern Churches in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican May 14, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Meeting Eastern Catholics, pope pledges to be peacemaker
Augustinian Father José Luis Romero Toscano, seen May 12, 2025, serves in the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, where Pope Leo XIII was the bishop until 2023. The priest predicted the new pope would draw on Augustinian values to promote unity in the church. (OSV News photo/David Agren)
Peru's Augustinian friars remember 'Monsignor Roberto' as defender of 'those who have nothing'
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass May 11, 2025, at the altar near the tomb of St. Peter's in the grotto of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Father Alejandro Moral Anton, prior general of the Order of St. Augustine, was the principal concelebrant. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Besides Leo XIII, 12 other popes have shared that name with new pontiff; 5 are saints
Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican as he leads, for the first time, the midday recitation of the "Regina Coeli" prayer May 11, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo prays for vocations, for peace and for mothers on Mother's Day
Using sign language Franciscan Sister Veronica Donatella applauds Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with members of the media May 12, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. Sister Donatella provides Italian sign language interpretation for Vatican Media. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope thanks media, urges them to be peacemakers
Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
First American pope: White Sox fan, Villanova grad, Peru missionary, Vatican leader
Cardinals Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, laugh during a news conference on the election of Pope Leo XIV at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
Unity, not nationality led to Pope Leo's election, U.S. cardinals say
Pope Leo XIV gives his homily while celebrating his first Mass as pope with the cardinals who elected him in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
New pope calls for Christian witness in world that finds faith 'absurd'
A man holding a rosary and U.S. flag reacts as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV, appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope in history. (OSV News photo/Dylan Martinez, Reuters)
Trump, US political leaders congratulate Pope Leo XIV: 'A great honor for our country'
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV, appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope in history. (OSV News photo/Dylan Martinez, Reuters)
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope Leo XIV: Peacemaker and openness in an historic name
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