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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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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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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
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
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
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