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Pope Leo XIV is greeted by an Algerian girl with flowers upon arrival at Houari Boumediene International Airport in Dar El Beida district in Algiers, Algeria, April 13, 2026, to begin his apostolic journey to Algeria, Angola, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo arrives in Algeria on first-ever papal visit to the country 
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Artemis II mission prompts look at Catholics' longtime interest in space exploration
Sister Michaela Rak of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus hugs a patient in the Hospice of Blessed Michal Sopocko in an undated photo in Vilnius, Lithuania. (OSV News photo/courtesy Hospice of Blessed Michal Sopocko)
Vilnius' hospice stands as a living work of Divine Mercy as city prepares to host global congress
Worshippers pray inside St. Patrick Catholic Church following a Way of the Cross procession on Good Friday in Washington April 3, 2026. (OSV News photo/Annabelle Gordon, Reuters)
Can salvation be guaranteed?
Bishop Andrew H. Cozzens of Crookston, Minn., delivers a keynote talk April 7, 2026, to open the National Catholic Educational Association convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center, taking place April 7-9. Bishop Cozzens told the educators that too many people have wounded hearts and their job is ito help heal them. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
Educators must help heal the human heart, especially in youth, bishop says in NCEA keynote
Michael Okinczyc-Cruz, executive director of the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, washes the feet of an immigrant on Holy Thursday, half a block away from the Broadview ICE processing facility in Broadview, Ill., as three priests and a religious sister minister to 14 people detained at the ICE facility April 2, 2026. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership)
Priests: ICE detainees see Chicago group's Easter Triduum visits as sign of 'humanity'
Pope Leo XIV delivers his "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) message from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on Easter at the Vatican April 5, 2026. (OSV News photo/Vatican Media, ­handout via Reuters)
'The power with which Christ rose is entirely nonviolent,' pope says in Easter peace message
Pope Leo XIV greets people from the popemobile after appearing on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after Easter Mass April 5, 2026. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope at Easter: Jesus showed nonviolence is true power over evil
Pope Leo XIV leads the Way of the Cross at the Colosseum in Rome April 3, 2026. (OSV News photo/Vincenzo Livieri, Reuters)
At Colosseum, pope carries the cross, leading thousands in Good Friday prayer for suffering world
People react at the site of a residential building in Tehran, Iran, March 27, 2026, that was damaged by a strike amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. (OSV News photo/Majid Asgaripour, West Asia News Agency via Reuters)
Archbishop Broglio: War in Iran likely not justified under Catholic teaching on legitimate defense
A displaced South Sudanese woman braids her grandmother's hair Jan. 15, 2026, at a shelter in El Obeid, in Sudan's North Kordofan state. In a March 26, 2026, message Italian Bishop Christian Carlassare of Bentiu, South Sudan, said his people are living a real-life Way of the Cross, marked by suffering, violence and deep wounds.(OSV News photo/El Tayeb Siddig, Reuters)
In South Sudan, people have been through Way of the Cross, and long for Easter peace, bishop says
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, washes the feet of laypeople during the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper at the Altar of the Chair in the Vatican April 17, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Some thoughts on washing feet
Japanese sculptor Etsuro Sotoo poses in front of the Basilica of the Holy Family, known in Spanish as Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, Spain,Nov. 4, 2010. Sotoo, whose decades of carving at the basilica, have shaped one of the world's great sacred spaces, the slow, humbling work of sculpting stone ultimately led him to encounter the God whom Antoni Gaudí -- Sagrada's iconic architect -- served, and to enter the Catholic Church through baptism. (OSV News photo/Gustau Nacarino, Reuters)
Carved by grace: How Gaudí led a Japanese artist to the Catholic faith
Jamar Carr, a substance abuse counselor with Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., cuts the ceremonial ribbon during the launch of a three-year journey of Catholic Charities USA's People of Hope Museum March 26, 2026, in Manhattan. Under the sponsorship of Catholic Charities USA, the tractor-trailer-sized traveling museum will tour the country highlighting "the impact of neighbors helping neighbors, and celebrating the power of Christian service," organizers said. (OSV News photo/Armando Mach
Catholic Charities USA's traveling museum 'celebrates power of Christian service'
A young altar server raises a palm frond during Palm Sunday Mass at Gaza City's Holy Family Church March 29, 2026. (OSV News photo/Dawoud Abu Alkas, Reuters)
Gaza Christians mark Palm Sunday with hope amid ongoing hardships
Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris speaks at a ceremony Sept. 22, 2025, to bless the foundation stone of the future Maison de la Visitation–Vaugirard in central Paris, where a former convent site -- a 78,500-square-foot property with a 43,000-square-foot garden -- will be transformed into a special housing project for the poor and vulnerable. (OSV News photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Paris)
French Church gives 'best to the poorest' in landmark Paris architectural project
Wyatt and Andrea Artz, are pictured in an undated photo with their three children Roselyn, Adeline and Catherine outside their home in Gann Valley, S.D. As a fourth grader, Andrea Artz remembers praying that she would experience a Eucharistic miracle one day. She never imagined that, years later, she might witness one with her newborn daughter Catherine. (OSV News photo/courtesy Artz family)
After Eucharistic encounter, dying baby is thriving one year later
Pope Leo XIV holds a palm branch as he celebrates the Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 29, 2026. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
'Lay down your weapons,' pope says in Palm Sunday call for peace
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, sits in the Church of All Nations March 29, 2026, at a prayer service to mark Palm Sunday, following the cancellation of the traditional Palm Sunday procession from the Mount of Olives, amid restrictions on gathering in large groups and the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Jerusalem. (OSV News photo/Ammar Awad, via Reuters)
Israel to allow Church leaders to celebrate Holy Week, Easter at holy sites, Latin patriarchate says
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Sept. 24 beatification of Archbishop Sheen to be 'a moment of immense grace'
Silver vessels containing sacramental oils are displayed during the chrism Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 17, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
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Groups of tourists walk around the Basilica of the Holy Family, known in Spanish as Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, Spain, June 30, 2025. Pope Leo XIV will visit Barcelona in June 2026 to mark the centenary of the death of the Sagrada Familia’s iconic architect, Antoni Gaudí, a candidate for sainthood declared venerable by Pope Francis April 14, 2025. (OSV News photo/Albert Gea, Reuters)
Gaudí's hidden dimension: Visionary Sagrada Familia's architect was a giant of faith
Former astrologer Molly Curtis described astrology as a system where one is always looking inward, trying to discover how signs in the sky affect one's life. In Christ, Curtis said, she is now looking outward, discovering how Jesus is affecting those in the world, including herself. After putting Christ at the center, she is to be confirmed at Easter 2026 in the Archdiocese of Detroit. (OSV News photo/Valaurian Waller, Detroit Catholic)
Former astrologer rediscovers Catholic roots, will enter full communion with Church at Easter
Pope Leo XVI poses with King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain during a private audience at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace March 20, 2026. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
Pope Leo XIV meets Spanish royals at Vatican, renewing crown's historic bond with Basilica of St. Mary Major
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