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Zelenskyy shares letter from Pope Leo XIV on Ukraine’s Independence Day 

August 24, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Leo XIV gives his Sunday Angelus address from the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square on Aug. 24, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Aug 24, 2025 / 10:10 am (CNA).
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky… […]

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Pope Leo XIV: Jesus challenges presumption of those who think they are already saved

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Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd during his Angelus address on Aug. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Aug 24, 2025 / 08:20 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that Jesus calls Christians to enter through the narrow gate and challeng… […]

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Pope Leo XIV urges Catholic legislators to look to Augustine’s ‘City of God’

August 23, 2025 Catholic News Agency 2

Pope Leo XIV views a gift from an attendee at the International Catholic Legislators Network meeting at the Vatican, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Aug 23, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday urged Ca… […]

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Pope Leo XIV calls Christians to ecumenism to be architects of reconciliation and peace

August 22, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Leo XIV meets with a U.S. ecumenical group led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on July 17, 2025, at the Vatican, encouraging them to “return to the roots of our faith” in their pilgrimage to It… […]

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Pope Leo XIV calls for fasting and prayer for peace on Friday, Aug. 22

August 21, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Leo XIV prays during his Wednesday general audience on Aug. 13, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 21, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has called for a day of fasting and pr… […]

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Pope Leo XIV looks to Ukraine with hope: ‘We must work hard, pray hard’

August 20, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful at the gates of Castel Gandolfo on Aug. 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 20, 2025 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Speaking to reporters at Castel Gandolfo on Aug. 19, Pope Leo XIV expressed hope for an … […]

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Leo XIV calls theologians to find ‘balanced synthesis’ between God’s law, human freedom

August 20, 2025 Catholic News Agency 20

Pope Leo XIV waves during his Wednesday audience Aug. 20, 2025. In a telegram dated the same day, he called moral theologians meeting in Colombia to “find a balanced synthesis” between “the laws of God” and the “dynamics of man’s conscience and… […]

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Pope Leo XIV invites Church to pray and fast for peace on Queenship of Mary feast day

August 20, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Leo XIV greets a young papal admirer in St. Peter’s Basilica during the general audience on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Aug 20, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday continued … […]

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Pope Leo XIV could visit Lebanon before the end of the year, patriarch says

August 20, 2025 Catholic News Agency 1

Lebanese Cardinal Béchara Boutros Raï, the head of the Maronite Catholic Church, gives a homily during the Synod on Synodality on Oct. 9, 2023. / Credit: Vatican Media

Vatican City, Aug 20, 2025 / 09:30 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV could visit Lebano… […]

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Pope Leo XIV visits favorite Marian shrine of John Paul II outside Rome

August 19, 2025 Catholic News Agency 0

Pope Leo XIV prays at the Marian shrine at Mentorella on Aug. 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

National Catholic Register, Aug 19, 2025 / 18:43 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV made a private visit Tuesday to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mentorella, Mother… […]

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