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Leading Vatican official says war in the Middle East could cause world ‘being set ablaze’

People watch from a rooftop as a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (Credit: Vahid Salemi/AP.)

Leading Vatican official says war in the Middle East could cause world ‘being set ablaze’

A “preventative war” could make the whole world at “risk being set ablaze,” according to the Vatican’s chief diplomat.

Mar 4
Crux Staff

Pope Leo XIV renews calls for peace, dialogue as Iran strikes continue

Mar 4
Crux Staff

Conservative Anglican leaders meet in Nigeria, facing debate on a possible breakaway

Mar 3
Peter Smith

Cardinal says priest who sent favorable letters to U.S. judge about El Mencho’s children ‘messed up’

Mar 3
Eduardo Campos Lima

Church should take a ‘critical and prophetic stance’ towards polarizing rhetoric, says Spanish archbishop

Mar 2
Fionn Shiner

Pope warns against ‘spiral of violence’ as US attacks Iran

Mar 1
Elise Ann Allen

Card. Ambongo leads historic call for fundamental change in African water management

Feb 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Cardinal says priest who sent favorable letters to U.S. judge about El Mencho’s children ‘messed up’

Mar 3
Eduardo Campos Lima

Church should take a ‘critical and prophetic stance’ towards polarizing rhetoric, says Spanish archbishop

Mar 2
Fionn Shiner

Pope warns against ‘spiral of violence’ as US attacks Iran

Mar 1
Elise Ann Allen

Card. Ambongo leads historic call for fundamental change in African water management

Feb 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Card. Ambongo leads historic call for fundamental change in African water management

Feb 27
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Pope warns against ‘spiral of violence’ as US attacks Iran

Mar 1
Elise Ann Allen

Border czar Homan offers to ‘explain’ Trump policy to Pope Leo XIV

Feb 27
Charles Collins

Bishops to launch initiatives against violence on Ecuador-Colombia border

Mar 1
Eduardo Campos Lima

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Attorney General Peter Neronha gives a victory speech after winning a second term, during an election-night gathering of Rhode Island Democratic candidates and supporters on Nov. 8, 2022, in Providence, R.I. . (Credit: Mark Stockwell/AP.)

Rhode Island AG to unveil long-awaited report on Diocese of Providence clergy abuse

Mar 4
Kimberlee Kruesi

Supreme Court blocks law against schools outing transgender students to their parents in California

Mar 3
Lindsay Whitehurst

Brazilian priest convicted of embezzling nearly 700 smart devices donated to his institute

Mar 2
Eduardo Campos Lima

Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment’

Mar 1
Nicole Winfield

In Minnesota, US cardinals and pope’s ambassador decry mass deportations and call for reconciliation

Feb 28
Giovanna Dell'Orto

Then-Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo speaks during a briefing about the assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2023. (Credit: Credit: Lola Gomez/CNS.)

Japanese cardinal says a ‘polite persecution’ faces Christians in Japan

Feb 28
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Jaime Sin hosted both of Pope John Paul II’s visits to the Philippines in 1981 and 1995. (Credit: Ryansean071/Wikimedia Commons.)

Filipinos remember prophetic Cardinal Sin on 40th People Power anniversary

Feb 27
Paterno R. Esmaquel II

Trees and buildings dot Tapalpa, Mexico, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, a day after the Mexican army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho." (Credit: Marco Ugarte/AP.)

In ‘El Mencho’s’ last redoubt, a crucifix, saint candles and a handwritten psalm

Feb 27
Fabiola Sanchez,
Associated Press

Holy See renews call for moratorium on AI weapons-development

Feb 26
Christopher R. Altieri

Vatican official tells UN so-called ‘new rights’ can attack religious freedom

Feb 26
Crux Staff

A ‘chatbot’ can’t replace angels, Bishop Varden tells Pope Leo, Roman Curia

Feb 26
Charles Collins

Daniela Petroff, AP’s longtime Vatican reporter, dies at 80

Feb 26
Nicole Winfield,
Colleen Barry, Associated Press

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Attorney General Peter Neronha gives a victory speech after winning a second term, during an election-night gathering of Rhode Island Democratic candidates and supporters on Nov. 8, 2022, in Providence, R.I. . (Credit: Mark Stockwell/AP.)

Rhode Island AG to unveil long-awaited report on Diocese of Providence clergy abuse

Mar 4
Kimberlee Kruesi

Brazilian priest convicted of embezzling nearly 700 smart devices donated to his institute

Mar 2
Eduardo Campos Lima

Vatican removes salty white film coating Michelangelo’s ‘The Last Judgment’

Mar 1
Nicole Winfield

In Minnesota, US cardinals and pope’s ambassador decry mass deportations and call for reconciliation

Feb 28
Giovanna Dell'Orto

Then-Archbishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo speaks during a briefing about the assembly of the Synod of Bishops at the Vatican Oct. 20, 2023. (Credit: Credit: Lola Gomez/CNS.)

Japanese cardinal says a ‘polite persecution’ faces Christians in Japan

Feb 28
Nirmala Carvalho

Cardinal Jaime Sin hosted both of Pope John Paul II’s visits to the Philippines in 1981 and 1995. (Credit: Ryansean071/Wikimedia Commons.)

Filipinos remember prophetic Cardinal Sin on 40th People Power anniversary

Feb 27
Paterno R. Esmaquel II

In ‘El Mencho’s’ last redoubt, a crucifix, saint candles and a handwritten psalm

Feb 27
Fabiola Sanchez,
Associated Press

Holy See renews call for moratorium on AI weapons-development

Feb 26
Christopher R. Altieri

Vatican official tells UN so-called ‘new rights’ can attack religious freedom

Feb 26
Crux Staff

A ‘chatbot’ can’t replace angels, Bishop Varden tells Pope Leo, Roman Curia

Feb 26
Charles Collins

News Analysis

White House border czar Tom Homan holds a news conference at the Bishop Whipple Federal building on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026 in Minneapolis. (Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP.)

Border czar Homan offers to ‘explain’ Trump policy to Pope Leo XIV

Feb 27
Charles Collins

Candid talk from senior cardinal on Pope Francis, Benedict XVI

Feb 22
Christopher R. Altieri

Senior Italian cardinal’s remarks may be valuable advice for U.S. political hopefuls

Feb 21
Christopher R. Altieri

The smartphone apps DeepSeek page is seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Jan. 28, 2025. (Credit: Andy Wong/AP.)

Artificial Intelligence is growing fast, making the Church face new challenges

Feb 19
Charles Collins

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives a thumbs up as he departs Munich International Airport in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, after attending the Munich Security Conference. (Credit: Alex Brandon/Pool photo via AP.)

Rubio’s speech on US-Europe relations finds parallels in Vatican-NATO relations

Feb 16
Charles Collins

Charles Collins

The Lenten retreat takes place in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

A ‘chatbot’ can’t replace angels, Bishop Varden tells Pope Leo, Roman Curia

Feb 26
Charles Collins

Pages from the U.S. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline website are arranged for a photograph in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (Credit{ Patrick Sison/AP.)

Assisted suicide increases rates of non-medical suicide, statistics show

Feb 25
Charles Collins

In this photo provided by Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade press service, a local passes by a destroyed apartment building following an Russian air strike in the town of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Credit: Andriy Andriyenko/Ukraine’s 65th Mechanized Brigade via AP.)

On anniversary of Russian invasion, Major Archbishop says Pope Leo understands Ukraine

Feb 24
Charles Collins

Lion of Three Worlds: New book examines papal office at dawn of Leonine era

Feb 18
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV receives officials of the Tribunal of Roman Rota for the inauguration of their judicial year in the Vatican on Jan. 26, 2026. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo says the Catholic Church cannot ‘relativize’ its teaching on marriage

Jan 27
Charles Collins

Elise Ann Allen

Pope warns against ‘spiral of violence’ as US attacks Iran

Mar 1
Elise Ann Allen

Pope Leo XIV receives the letters of credential of Brian F. Burch as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See during an audience Sept. 13, 2025, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

US Ambassador sees potential for ‘Catholic Moment’ with Leo

Feb 25
Elise Ann Allen

Brian Burch speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination for to be Ambassador to The Holy See, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP.)

US immigration law ‘not rooted in hate or xenophobia,’ ambassador says

Feb 25
Elise Ann Allen

Pope opens Lent condemning ‘structures of sin’, calling for conversion

Feb 18
Elise Ann Allen

Experts condemn income disparity as unjust in healthcare

Feb 18
Elise Ann Allen

Christopher R. Altieri

Pope Leo XIV at the Lenten retreat in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

In Lenten meditation, Bishop Erik Varden addresses abuse, corruption

Feb 25
Christopher R. Altieri

New US policy on AI threatens industry disruption, puts US at loggerheads with Holy See

Feb 17
Christopher R. Altieri

President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (Credit: Alex Brandon/AP.)

Senior U.S. Church leaders call for presidential apology in wake of racist social media post

Feb 10
Christopher R. Altieri

Pope receives Courage International leadership delegation

Feb 7
Christopher R. Altieri

Father John Wauck blesses the coffin of John L. Allen Jr. on Jan. 26, 2026, in Sant’Eugenio basilica in Rome. (Credit: YouTube.)

Funeral held in Rome for John L. Allen Jr., founding editor-in-chief of Crux

Jan 27
Christopher R. Altieri

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