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Standing amid the rubble and with the loved ones of people killed behind him, Pope Leo XIV prays at a memorial marking the site of a deadly explosion in 2020 at the port in Beirut Dec. 2, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Unity, dialogue, respect: On first trip, pope highlights paths to peace
Joel Edgerton portrays Robert Grainier in the Netflix movie "Train Dreams." The movie tells the story of Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America. The PG-13 film is available for streaming on Netflix. (OSV News photo/courtesy Netflix)
Netflix's 'Train Dreams' captures the beauty of an ordinary life
The congregation at St. Joseph the Worker in Gary serenades a historic statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Nov. 30, following the annual procession with the statue from Ss. Monica and Luke to kick off the novena leading up to Our Lady’s feast day on Dec. 12. Most Rev. McClory offered his blessing on those gathered and joined in the singing of “La Guadalupana” after the five-mile pilgrimage.
Winter procession through Gary honors Our Lady of Guadalupe
Pope Leo XIV prays in silence before the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, Dec. 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope Leo is first pontiff to go to St. Charbel's tomb; visit is source of 'great joy' for Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV smiles as he meets with Lebanese young people gathered at the square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch in Bkerké, Lebanon, Dec. 1, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Lebanese have what is needed to build a future of peace, pope says
First-graders Connor Nguyen and Jasper Zhao work in a science, technology, engineering, and math program, or STEM, at Assumption of the Virgin Mary School in Pasadena, Calif. Jan. 15, 2025. Experts and teachers from coast to coast told OSV News that artificial intelligence, AI, is poised to transform Catholic education. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Why authentic friendships outshine AI companions
Pope Leo XIV speaks to journalists during a news conference aboard his flight from Turkey to Lebanon, Nov. 30, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Holding inflight news conference, pope talks about peace in Gaza, Ukraine
Volunteers with the Ladies of Charity of Calvert County, Md., load turkeys and other provisions into the car of a person in need at a food pantry Nov. 20, 2021, held on the grounds of of St. Anthony's Catholic Church in North Beach. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller)
Four steps for Christian discipleship in Advent
A digital billboard showing Pope Leo XIV stands along a road in Beirut Nov. 19, 2025, ahead of his planned visit to Lebanon. Nearby are partially collapsed grain silos that were damaged in the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut port blast. (OSV News photo/Mohamed Azakir, Reuters)
Lebanese long for peace ahead of Pope Leo's visit
Sam Sorich, a Catholic filmmaker producing a documentary on Catholicism and UFOs, is seen filming a behind-the-scenes segment of an episode of Jesse Michels’ podcast on location in San Oreste, Italy, DATE, 2025. Michels and his production team were given a private tour of the Monte Soratte military bunker, where some people claim UFO technology was studied in the early 20th century. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)
Catholic filmmaker investigates UFO mysteries at the Vatican
Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia preaches a homily during the Nov. 22, 2025, closing Mass of the National Catholic Youth Conference celebrated in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. (OSV News photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion)
Jesus 'is the king of our hearts,' archbishop shares at NCYC closing Mass
Nigeria Catholic School Abduction
Pope Leo urges 'immediately release' of kidnapped children and teachers after gunmen abduct over 300 in a Nigerian Catholic school
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. The new co-owner of the Chicago White Sox calls meeting Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican Nov. 19 "a really wonderful experience and one that I won't forget." News reports said he asked for a papal blessing on a future new stadium he hopes to see one day. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, via Reuters)
White Sox co-owner says pope told him he'd 'love to' throw a season opening pitch in future
This is the cover of “Joy within His House,” written by Sister Mary Magdalene of the Immaculate Conception Prewitt, OP, published by OSV Oct. 20, 2025. (OSV illustration/OSV)
'Joy Within His House': An inside look into the life of cloistered nuns
A convoy of Nigerien soldiers patrol outside the town of Ouallam, Niger, July 6, 2021. A coup on July 26, 2023, brought Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, the head of the presidential guard, into power and threw the country into further turmoil. As Niger and its neighbors battle insurgencies, the rising kidnapping of foreign nationals and local Christians has left a feeling that the Sahel region is a place particularly dangerous for missionaries. (OSV News photo/Media Coulibaly, Reuters)
Silence around kidnapped American missionary pilot in Niger is disturbing, Catholic priest says
Pope Leo XIV speaks to visitors and pilgrims attending Mass for the Jubilee of Choirs and the feast of Christ the King Nov. 23, 2025, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. At the end of Mass, the pope announced the release of his apostolic letter, "In Unitate Fidei" ("In the Unity of Faith") on the Creed and the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope issues apostolic letter on the Creed, marking anniversary of Nicaea
Elise Wing from the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, asks Pope Leo XIV a question during the pope’s first digital encounter Nov. 21, 2025, with 15,000 youth gathered in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis as part of the 2025 National Catholic Youth Conference. (OSV News photo/Margaret Murray)
Youth embrace Pope Leo's message of hope following unique digital meeting
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Artist Patricia Brintle writes an icon of St. Kateri Tekakwitha for St. James Cathedral in Seattle. In May, the archdiocese asked her to create the icon of St. Kateri, which she completed over the summer and sent to Seattle in September. After being blessed on Oct. 19, 2025, the icon has been touring local Native American Catholic communities before being placed in its permanent home on a wall of the cathedral. (OSV News photo/courtesy Patricia Brintle)
Indigenous elders, New York artist, Seattle cathedral join to create St. Kateri icon
Volunteers serve food during the 20th annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner Nov. 23, 2019, at St. Mary Parish in Menasha, Wis. (OSV News photo/Brad Birkholz)
The meaning of Thanksgiving
A boat is seen near Combu Island with the city of Belem, Brazil, in the background Nov. 9, 2025. Belem is hosting the U.N. Climate Conference, COP30. (CNS photo/Sergio Moraes, COP30)
'Creation is crying out,' pope says in new message to COP30
Pope Leo XIV greets Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, during a meeting at the Vatican with priests who staff nunciatures and other Vatican diplomatic missions around the world Nov. 17, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope asks priests in diplomatic corps to be witnesses of hope
Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin delivers a homily after announcing the elevation of St. Mary's Pro Cathedral to formal cathedral status at a Mass to mark the bicentenary of the church's dedication in 1825 and the feast of the city's patron, St. Laurence O'Toole, on Nov. 14, 2025. The Catholics of Dublin have a dedicated cathedral for the first time in 500 years following Pope Leo XIV's decision on Nov. 14 to designate St. Mary's as the Irish capital's official Catholic cathedral. (OSV News photo/courtes
Catholics in Dublin now have a dedicated cathedral for first time in 500 years
A screenshot of the film "Sacré Coeur," directed by Steven and Sabrina Gunnell and released in France Oct. 1, 2025, is seen, picturing St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus was showing his heart between 1673 and 1675 in Paray-le-Monial, in the French region of Burgundy. With more than 400,000 viewers since the film's release as of Nov. 14, and counting, the new film about the Sacred Heart of Jesus has become an unexpected box office hit in France. (OSV News/courtesy SAJE)
Sacred Heart film breaks all records in secular France for viewership and public backlash
Pope Leo XIV waves to students in a lecture hall at Rome's Pontifical Lateran University after giving a formal speech to professors, staff and a small group of students in the university's main hall Nov. 14, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Be prophetic sign of communion, fraternity, pope tells Lateran University
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