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Children pray rosary with Pope Leo
Hundreds of children join Pope Leo XIV in praying the rosary for peace in Vatican Gardens
Pope Leo XIV wears a Chicago White Sox baseball cap during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 11, 2025. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)
Pope Leo sends letter to White Sox, encouraging team to 'foster friendship, solidarity'
Demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington Jan. 22, 2026, calling on President Donald Trump's administration to ban the abortion pill. In a Sept. 29, statement, Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chairman of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee, urged the faithful to mark Respect Life Month with prayer for an end to abortion and action to stop use of the abortion pill. (OSV News photo/Aaron Schwartz, Reuters)
During Respect Life Month, Catholics urged to pray, take action to stop use of abortion pill
A statue of St. Francis of Assisi is pictured outside an animal hospital in Prince Fredrick, Md., July 22, 2021. His feast day is celebrated Oct. 4. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Assisi to mark 800 years since St. Francis' death during yearlong jubilee celebration
San Diego Bishop Michael M. Pham shakes hands with Rabbi Mike Rothbaum Sept. 27, 2026, after the bishop led more than 4,000 people in a procession on the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. The event in Balboa Park was held to support immigrants and to proclaim that "All Are Sacred." Dozens of other faith leaders participated in the procession. (OSV News photo/David Maung)
San Diego bishop proclaims that 'faith must speak' on behalf of immigrants, protect their dignity
Christa Gail Pike, the only woman on Tennessee's Death-row, is pictured in this 2007 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph obtained by Reuters March 22, 2012. After Tennessee officials failed in their Sept. 30, 2026, attempt to execute Pike for a 1995 murder, Catholic opponents of the death penalty said that the incident demonstrates the flaws with capital punishment. (OSV News photo/Tennessee Department of Correction handout via Reuters)
Tennessee halts executions after death row inmate survives lethal injection attempt
Father Adrian Mantykiewicz, still bearing bandages and bruises from the Sept. 24, 2026, knife attack at the Benedictine sisters' abbey in Jaroslaw, Poland, celebrates Mass Sept. 26 and delivers a message of forgiveness, praying for the attacker and urging respect and solidarity between Poles and Ukrainians. (OSV News screenshot/courtesy Radio Fara)
Polish priest wounded in stabbing returns to altar with message of forgiveness
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., consecrates the University of Notre Dame for the first time to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Sept. 25, 2026, following an evening Mass in Notre Dame, Ind. The faithful processed with the Eucharist to a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the center of the campus for a prayer of consecration, where the bishop and university leaders prayed for an end to divisions and strength to love selflessly like Jesus. (OSV News photo/Michael Caterina, University of N
Notre Dame consecrated to the Sacred Heart for first time thanks to student-led initiative
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Prairie of the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes, France, Sept. 27, 2026, during his apostolic journey to France. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
At Lourdes, a refuge for the ill, Pope Leo stands against assisted dying laws
Pope Leo XIV leads a candlelight procession at Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes during his four-day apostolic journey to France, in Lourdes, France, Sept. 27, 2026. (OSV News photo/Stephane Mahe, Reuters)
Pope Leo XIV leads thousands in candlelight rosary procession in Lourdes
Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre (center), chairman of the board of directors of The Pontifical Mission Societies, U.S.A., celebrates Mass at St. Mary's Church in El Paso, Ill., Sept. 26, 2026, with Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria. Blessed Fulton J. Sheen was baptized at St. Mary's on May 12, 1895, and Bishop Barres was baptized by Blessed Sheen decades later in New York. (OSV News photo/Gretchen R. Crowe)
Blessed Sheen's baptismal church in Illinois to be part of world's first parish named for him
Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
Archbishop Sheen's epic meatloaf – and its surprising 'appley' ingredient!
Pope Leo XIV delivers a speech during a meeting with authorities, members of civil society and the diplomatic corps at the Élysée Palace in Paris Sept. 25, 2026, the first day of his four-day apostolic journey to France. (OSV News photo/Teresa Suarez, Pool via Reutes)
Pope Leo XIV arrives in Paris, urging French leaders to protect the right to life
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, a pro-prefect of the Holy See's Dicastery for Evangelization, gestures as he processes after concelebrating the beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 24, 2026, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. Blessed Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen declared 'Blessed' at beatification Mass in St. Louis
Seminarians watch as prelates process in at the start of the vespers for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Sept. 23, 2026, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, the eve of his beatification. Archbishop Sheen is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
'Pivotal' Archbishop Sheen 'opened the door to the evangelization of the world,' says Bishop Barron
James Engstrom, then 15, who has a great interest in meteorology as a hobby, shows his parents, Travis and Bonnie, the weather forecast at their home in Washington, Ill., Jan. 23, 2026. James Engstrom, who was born without a pulse on Sept. 16, 2010, and remained clinically dead for an hour before his heart began beating, led to a Church-approved miracle that helped advance the cause for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's beatification. (OSV News photo/Daryl Wilson)
Miracle baby's mom reflects on Archbishop Sheen ahead of beatification Mass
People look at the Notre Dame Cathedral decorated with Vatican flags in Paris Sept. 23, 2026, as preparations continue ahead of Pope Leo XIV's Sept. 25-28 visit to France, (OSV News photo/Sarah Meyssonnier, Reuters)
Pope Leo to visit migration center in Paris that welcomes all, no matter their legal status
Pope Leo XIV speaks to visitors during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 23, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Technological advancements are not rivals to faith, pope says
Professor Pierluca Azzaro, left, executive secretary of the Ratzinger Foundation, and Father Roberto Regoli, president of Ratzinger Foundation announce that Notre Dame professor John C. Cavadini, who served as the director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, has been selected as the winner of the 2026 Ratzinger Prize at the Holy See Press Office Sept. 22. (OSV News photo/Sergio Augusto Sannipoli, courtesy of Ratzinger Foundation)
Notre Dame professor John Cavadini selected as 2026 Ratzinger Prize recipient
Women carry a cutout of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen in the exhibit hall ahead of the beatification Mass for Archbishop Sheen Sept. 24, 2026, at The Dome at America's Center in St. Louis. The archbishop is remembered as one of the most influential and innovative evangelists in American history. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Sheen beatification 'a gift' and a call to mission, say pilgrims in St. Louis
Pope Leo XIV greets diocesan leaders at the conclusion of an assembly at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, Sept. 18, 2026. The meeting opened the new pastoral year for the Diocese of Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Priests, pastoral leaders have permission to do less, do it better, pope says
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore gives a keynote address Sept. 18, 2026, at the National Assembly of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women Religious in Florissant, Mo. The theme of the Sept. 17-20 assembly was "250 Years of Freedom: Daughters of the Church from One Generation to the Next." (OSV News photo/courtesy CMSWR)
Baltimore archbishop urges women religious to model renewal of American political culture
Pope Leo XIV is embraced by a member of a delegation from the Special Olympics during a private audience at the Vatican Sept. 19, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti Vatican Media)
Pope Leo tells Special Olympics athletes they 'remind everyone of the true values of life'
Thomas Cander Woude cause for canonization
Virginia diocese investigates potential sainthood cause for Catholic father who saved his son
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