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Archbishop Andrew Nkea of Bamenda, Cameroon, speaks at a press briefing about the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican Oct. 22, 2024. Pope Leo XIV was scheduled to meet with Cameroon religious and political leaders, traditional chiefs, peacemakers, as well as faithful during his April 15-18, 2026, visit to the African country. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Bamenda's archbishop: Papal visit to Cameroon has brought miracles before it even begins
Pope Leo XIV is assisted by a Boy Scout as he visits the archaeological site of Hippo Regius in Annaba, Algeria, April 14, 2026. At right is Bishop Michel Guillaud of Constantine-Hippone in Algeria. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media)
'Son of Augustine': Pope Leo XIV retraces St. Augustine's steps in Algeria
Pope Leo XIV speaks during a meeting with members of the Chaldean Catholic Church during their synod to elect a new patriarch at the Vatican April 10, 2026. (OSV News photo/Vatican Media)
New Chaldean patriarch elected for Iraq amid pope's calls he 'should be' a 'father in faith'
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 
Butter sculptor Gerry Kulzer works on creating a bust of Pope Leo XIV out of the dairy staple April 7, 2026, during the 2026 National Catholic Educational Association Convention in Minneapolis, held April 7-9. (OSV News photo/Dianne Towalski, The Central Minnesota Catholic)
Minnesota butter sculptor brings skills to NCEA convention, enshrines pope in the dairy staple
Pope Leo XIV speaks to reporters aboard the papal flight from Rome, Italy, to Algeria April 13, 2026. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Pope Leo responds to Trump: 'Blessed are the peacemakers'
In a joint interview with CBS's Norah O'Donnell on "60 Minutes" April 12, 2026, Cardinals Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, N.J., Robert W. McElroy of Washingto, and Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, began by giving their impressions of the first U.S. pope, Pope Leo XIV. (OSV News screenshot/Facebook)
US cardinals speak out against Iran war, mass deportations in 60 Minutes appearance
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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
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)
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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
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