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Poll finds pope has high favorability rating after AI encyclical while Trump dips over inflation, war in Iran
A new poll shows President Donald Trump trailing Pope Leo XIV by 54 percentage points in net favorability.
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Feminist group violating Malta’s pro-life law
Mary Zwicker, European Correspondent: A foreign pro-abortion activist group is interfering in a pro-life country by distributing illegal abortifacient pills to women. On April 15, Women on Waves, a pro-abortion activist …
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Supreme Court allows mail delivery of abortion pill
Oswald Clark, U.S. Correspondent: On May 14, the Supreme Court of the United States permitted the on-going mail distribution of the abortion pill when it stayed a lower court decision …
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2 former University of Notre Dame rectors sexually abused students, report finds
An independent report shows that two priests who oversaw University of Notre Dame residence halls sexually abused several students during their tenure in the 1980s and 1990s, with both continuing …
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Grace Transforms Us When We Open Our Hearts to Eucharist
(See the readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ) St. Carlo Acutis was canonized the first millennial saint last September by Pope Leo. He …
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AMERICA/HAITI – Confirmation of the Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies
Vatican City – On May 25, 2026, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization , confirmed Fr. Junior Phares Larosiliere, of the diocesan clergy of Port-au-Prince, …
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AFRICA/SOUTH SUDAN – St. Theresa Mission Hospital launches Ebola awareness campaign
Nzara – St. Theresa Mission Hospital in Nzara has initiated a comprehensive awareness campaign targeting the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio to strengthen precautionary measures against ongoing Ebola outbreaks in the …
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ASIA/MYANMAR – Five bishops forced to leave the cathedral. Bishop of Pekhon: “People, tired and traumatized by the violence, pray with tears in their eyes”
Vatican City – Due to the civil war that has ravaged Myanmar since 2021, five bishops from the country’s 17 dioceses have been forced to abandon their episcopal sees and …
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If the “problem” is no longer atheism. Spain’s missionary urgency awaits Leo XIV
by Marie-Lucile Kubacki Madrid – From June 6 to 12, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will visit Spain as part of his fourth apostolic journey outside Italy. During this trip, he …
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Well-traveled Pope Leo knows Spain better than many Spaniards, author says
Juan Vicente Boo, the Vatican correspondent for the Spanish newspaper ABC for 23 years, says the current pontiff is, among the popes of the last five centuries, the one who …