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Cuba: Hurricane destroys the National Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre

Pope Leo XIV, addressing the faithful during his general audience in Rome on October 29, assured his prayers for the victims of Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica and Cuba, invoking Mary’s comfort for the afflicted.

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Pope Leo XIV Grants Plenary Indulgence for Schoenstatt Centennial Pilgrims

The indulgence, announced at the start of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary’s centennial jubilee, is available from October 1, 2025, through November 4, 2026

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Eleven Priests Martyred by Communism and Nazism To Be Beatified Following Authorization by Pope Leo XIV

In an audience granted by Pope Leo XIV on October 24, to Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, the promulgation was authorized of the decrees on the martyrdom of Polish priests between 1941 and 1942 "out of hatred for the faith," in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps, and of Czech diocesan priests murdered between 1951 and 1952.

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India’s Supreme Court Questions Anti-Conversion Law, Reasserting the Nation’s Secular Soul

At issue is the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, introduced by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu nationalist government

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Journalist slanders Cardinal Becciu and the Congregation for the Causes of Saints: Vatican court finds him guilty

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, which supervises the Church’s complex processes of beatification and canonization, reacted swiftly to the judgment, describing it as a “necessary act of justice.”

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Report shows that young Americans attend religious services more than their parents

The numbers may be modest, but the implications are far-reaching. For years, sociologists and church leaders alike have worried that Christianity in America was entering a phase of irreversible decline

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The world’s largest Orthodox cathedral is inaugurated: one of its most important benefactors was Saint John Paul II

When Pope John Paul II visited Romania in 1999 — the first papal visit to an Orthodox-majority country since the Great Schism — he donated $200,000 to support the construction of the future national cathedral. The funds were later used to help purchase the cathedral’s bells, manufactured in Austria and blessed in 2018

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Basilica of the Holy Family Becomes the Tallest Church in Europe

With the placement of the lower arm, the tower of Jesus of the Holy Family church reaches a height of 162.91 meters

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Spain’s socialist-communist government allocates €3 million to Masonic temple

What might have been a purely cultural act has instead ignited one of the oldest and most persistent tensions in Spanish public life: the uneasy intersection between national history, religion, and secular politics.

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3 educational challenges according to Pope Leo XIV

Address of the Pope to students participating in the Jubilee of the world of education

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