In the divisive political climate in Spain, some say there is the risk that political factions will try to use the pope's words to their advantage.

Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin speaks at a Vatican conference on mental health, digital technologies, and education, lamenting that society offers young people every means available but no purpose.

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As an EU court presses member states to recognize same-sex "marriages," Poland's bishops insist defending marriage takes nothing from anyone's dignity.

Ten contemplative monasteries are preparing thousands of rosaries for Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic visit to Spain. The small hand-crafted objects are born of silence, prayer, manual labour, and the help of young volunteers.

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An Armenian music concert takes place at the Vatican to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Armenian section of Vatican Radio-Vatican News.

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In an interview with Vatican News, Archbishop Ronald Hicks of New York calls Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical 'Magnifica humanitas' essential for generations to come and insists that Pope Leo is raising the right issues, especially on the transforming nature of work, as young people of his Archdiocese ask: 'Am I studying for a career that won't exist in 10 years?'

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The pontiff met with Johnson at the Vatican on May 28 and was formally invited to visit his native city next year.

The Trump administration authorized 10,000 more Afrikaners from South Africa to be admitted as refugees, and Bishop Brendan Cahill said U.S. protection should not be limited to a single group.

"Central Nigeria remains entrenched in an intense, daily, and seemingly perpetual crisis of insecurity," the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said in a recent report.

The 2025 report showed 168 more allegations than in the previous audit year.