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Pope Leo XIV receives a decorative shawl from a priest during a meeting with clergy ministering in the Diocese of Rome in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican June 12, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Diversity is cause for strength, not division, pope tells Rome clergy
Bishops pray June 13, 2024, at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Spring Plenary Assembly in Louisville, Ky. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
 While the U.S. bishops go on retreat this June, business follows them
A photo taken May 6, 2025, shows a print of George Herman "Babe" Ruth visiting St. Mary's Industrial School in Southwest Baltimore was sent to Archbishop William E. Lori for the archdiocesan archives. It was discovered by Ginny Black, a resident of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, while she was searching through her late mother’s possessions. That same image O is featured in a book titled "The Babe and I." (OSV News photo/Kevin J. Parks, Catholic Review)
Rare Babe Ruth image a reminder of Baltimore Catholic school's huge role in his life, career
Nico Parker, and Mason Thames star in a scene from the movie "How to Train Your Dragon." The OSV News classification is A-II -- adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG -- parental guidance suggested. (OSV News photo/Universal Pictures)
Movie Review: How to Train Your Dragon
Pope Leo XIV greets a child from the popemobile as he rides around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience June 11, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Call out to Jesus for healing; he will hear you, pope says
Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City blesses the gathered crowd at the top of the Tepeyac Hill at the Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine in Oklahoma City during a Eucharistic procession on June 3, 2025.(OSV News photo/Avery Holt, courtesy Archdiocese of Oklahoma City)
National pilgrimage walks with Christ amid protests and finds inspiration along the way 
Pope Leo XIV receives the offertory gifts during Mass for the Jubilee of the Holy See in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Serve the Holy See by striving for holiness, pope tells officials, staff
Pope Leo XIV smiles at the conclusion of Pentecost Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican June 8, 2025, marking the end of the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations and New Communities. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
God's love breaks down walls, opens borders, dispels hatred, pope says
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'The Ritual' seeks to portray exorcism respectfully
Blessed Carlo Acutis sits in front of a computer in a scene from a stop-motion animation Lego-Carlo Acutis film made by three brothers in Limerick County, Ireland, and released in mind-May 2025 on their YouTube channel, Fiontar Floinn. On the wall to left is a blue poster of the last Super Mario Bros video game to be released in the lifetime of Blessed Carlo (1996-2006). (OSV News photo/courtesy Flynn family) Editors: best quality available.
Inspired by millennial soon-to-be-saint, Irish teens created animated Lego-Carlo Acutis film
Pope Leo XIV shakes hands with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, during an audience at the Vatican with officials from the Secretariat of State June 5, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Vatican office must be place of faith, charity, not ambition, pope says
People gather for a prayer vigil in Boulder, Colo., June 2, 2025, beside a makeshift memorial at the scene of an attack that injured multiple people outside the Boulder County Courthouse. The alleged attacker, identified by the FBI as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was armed with a homemade flamethrower and threw two Molotov cocktails at the group June 1, burning multiple victims, police said. Witnesses said Soliman yelled, "Free Palestine." (OSV News photo/Mark Makela, Reuters)
Colorado faith leaders express sorrow over attack on rally for release of Hamas hostages
Brazilian Sister Marizele Isabel Cassiano Rego is seen in an undated photograph. Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral worldwide after a May 28, 2025, video showed them beatboxing and dancing hip hop on Catholic TV -- drawing comparisons to a real-life "Sister Act." (OSV News/courtesy Copiosa Redenção)
Video of Brazilian nuns beatboxing goes viral, boosts interest in their ministry
Pope Leo XIV watches as cyclists participating in the Giro d’Italia begin their ride through the Vatican Gardens during a special passage through Vatican City June 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Take care of body, mind, heart, spirit, pope tells professional cyclists
Caption: Students walk on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., May 23, 2025. The Trump administration revoked Harvard's ability to accept foreign students May 22, a move currently being battled in the courts. The Department of Homeland Security on May 29 gave the school 30 days to prove it satisfies visa program requirements. (OSV News photo/Faith Ninivaggi, Reuters)
Fordham, Notre Dame look to support foreign students amid Trump visa crackdown
Pope Leo XIV gives his blessing at the conclusion of Mass and the recitation of the "Regina Coeli" marking the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Reach out to families; let them know God loves them, pope says
Pope Leo XIV poses for a photograph with members of grassroots groups and Catholic associations that work for peace and justice during an audience at the Vatican May 30, 2025. To the left of the pope is Bishop Domenico Pompili of Verona, Italy. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Decisions, relationships, actions must be rooted in nonviolence, pope says
A Vatican flag is seen on a balcony on the main square outside the papal palace in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, May 29, 2025, the day Pope Leo XIV visited. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope visits papal villa, former summer residence in Castel Gandolfo
A mural dedicated to Pope Leo XIV, alongside a special Pope Leo No. 14 Chicago White Sox jersey, is unveiled in Section 140 of Rate Field, the White Sox's ballpark, in Chicago, May 19, 2025. (OSV News photo / Courtesy of the Chicago White Sox)
Pope Leo video message to feature at Chicago Archdiocese, White Sox celebration
A chaplain for the perpetual pilgrims along the St. Katherine Drexel route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage prays before the Eucharist during a Holy Hour May 28, 2025, at St. Ambrose Cathedral in Des Moines, Iowa. (OSV News photo/Anne Marie Cox, Diocese of Des Moines)
National pilgrimage carries the Eucharist to Midwest cathedrals and along cow fields
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
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'Lilo & Stitch' Review
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
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