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Pope bids farewell to Lebanon with call for end to armed conflict

Italy

Mourners walk on the ‘Votif’ Bridge, a 407m temporary floating bridge connecting the city to the cemetery on the island of San Michele, to pay respects to their dead on All Soul’s Day, in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (Credit: Luca Bruno/AP.)

Venice revives a quarter-mile floating bridge to island cemetery for All Souls’ Day mourners

Nov 4
Associated Press

Visiting Italian president, pope urges multilateralism, welcome of migrants

Oct 14
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV, with Monsignor Leonardo Sapienza, walks out of the Vatican's Synod Hall on May 10, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Rome empties in August, but the papal in-tray doesn’t

Aug 13
Christopher R. Altieri

A view of the antennas of Vatican Radio in Santa Maria di Galeria on April 11, 2001. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state

Aug 1
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Carabinieri's headquarters in Castel Gandolfo on July 15, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo praises Italian military police at Mass in Castel Gandolfo

Jul 15
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV meets with the Italian Episcopal Conference in the Vatican on June 17, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Bishops should be aware of the challenges posed by AI, Pope Leo says

Jun 17
Charles Collins

A screen flags the news of new Pope Leo XIV during the second round match between Fabio Fognini of Italy and Jacob Fearnley at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome on May 8, 2025. (Credit: Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP.)

Pope Leo XIV is a tennis player. Tsitsipas would be happy to hit some balls with him

May 11
Andrew Dampf,
Associated Press

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — confirmed the Marymount International School 9th graders, usually 14 or 15 years old, in a Mass on May 11, 2024. (Credit: Marymount International School via AP.)

As cardinal, Pope Leo XIV balanced the sacramental with the personal while confirming teenagers

May 11
Colleen Barry,
Associated Press

Arrest of Italian priest for abuse may renew calls for national reckoning

Apr 17
Crux Staff

Clergy attend the beatification Mass of Carlo Acutis in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi in Assisi, Italy, Oct. 10, 2020. (Credit: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Assisi- Nocera Umbra- Gualdo Tadino.)

New documentary looks at life of Carlo Acutis, who will be canonized this month

Apr 16
Charles Collins

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Pope bids farewell to Lebanon with call for end to armed conflict

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

Pope ends Mass with a call for peace

Dec 2
Associated Press

Pastors in Lebanon hope papal visit will give boost to Christians’ civil rights

Dec 2
Elise Ann Allen

Pope prays at site of 2020 Beirut port explosion

Dec 2
Nicole Winfield,
Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press