The Spanish writer Javier Cercas reflects on Pope Leo XIV's Message for the 2026 World Day of Social Communications.

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A Lenten reflection from Jenny Kraska, Executive Director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

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Fr Francesco Patton, OFM, reflects on the city of Nazareth.

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The Pontifical Academy for Life has launched a new initiative appealing to the scientific and academic world to contribute to the pursuit of peace.

Pope Leo XIV appoints Archbishop Luis Marín de San Martín as the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, known as the Papal Almoner, and names Cardinal Konrad Krajewski as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Łódź, in Poland.

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After concluding the first leg of his African apostolic journey in Algeria, Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to travel to Cameroon from April 15–18.

Though perpetrators try to keep it hidden, human trafficking violates human dignity and cuts across borders, cultures, the vulnerable, poverty-stricken communities, and the desperate. Yet, it is much closer than we think, inhabiting our phones and social media as a promise of opportunity popping on screen. Religious sisters with Talitha Kum Kenya are tenaciously building a network with both local presence and global impact.

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Pope Leo XIV calls on communities to look to the Holy Family of Nazareth to rediscover their calling to welcome others and learn to walk the path of service, as he addressed participants in the "Cathedra of Hospitality."

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Cardinal Zuppi celebrates Mass at the Basilica of Saint Francis for peace in Ukraine and the world. Organized by the Ukrainian Embassy to the Holy See, the celebration coincides with the exhibition of the relics of Saint Francis and the fourth anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion.

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A parish in Little Rock, Arkansas, has instituted a program to encourage children to bring a “passport booklet” to Mass each weekend to receive a sticker from priests and deacons.