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POPE LEO XIV IN AFRICA

Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea
April 13-23

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Catholic Charities USA’s traveling museum ‘celebrates power of Christian service’

by Armando Machado

At the opening of the mobile museum, the CEO of Catholic Charities USA said, the venture “is a testament to mercy, service, hope, compassion and faith.”

The Eucharist can ‘rekindle lost hope,’ Pope Leo says at Sunday Mass in Angola
Pope Leo arrives in Angola, calls for fostering ‘just model of coexistence’
Pope Leo XIV rejects media ‘narrative’ his Africa remarks targeted Trump
With candor, Pope Leo confronts Cameroon’s ongoing abductions, killings in plea for peace
Pope Francis on then-Cardinal Prevost: ‘He’s a saint,’ journalist recalls in memoir book on the late pope
Bishops’ pro-life chair concerned about ‘uneven enforcement’ of FACE Act after DOJ report

U.S. Church

HHS proposes scrapping policy requiring foster homes to affirm children’s LGBTQ+ identity

by Kate Scanlon

Critics of the Biden policy said it discriminated against potential foster parents over their religious beliefs about marriage, sexuality and gender.

Gallup: Young men are an ’emerging exception’ among ‘low ebb’ of religiosity in US

Faithful sing, pray, walk in solidarity with detained immigrants in Florida to bring them hope

Trump says he has ‘right to disagree’ with Pope Leo, not ‘necessary’ to meet him

US bishops’ doctrine chair defends Church’s just war tradition after Vance comments

More US bishops raise their voices against Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo

Catholic groups slam Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo, a ‘shepherd’ of souls, not a politician

World

Guatemala’s ‘Fray Augusto’ is a martyr of the confessional, vice postulator says

by Junno Arocho Esteves

(OSV News) — At first glance, the official photo of Venerable Augusto Ramírez Monasterio — known simply as “Fray Augusto” — shows a smiling Franciscan friar standing in …

Church concerned about Costa Rica’s deal with US to receive deportees every week
Pope Francis remembered in Buenos Aires as ‘guiding light’ for Argentine Church
Irish-born religious sister’s joyful witness endures 10 years after her death in Ecuador quake
‘We can always begin anew’: Pope Leo leads peace meeting in heart of Cameroon’s conflict zone
At Cameroonian orphanage, Pope Leo tells children they can always find a friend in Jesus

Volkswagen’s Brazil ranch probed for human trafficking; Catholic priest exposed it

Catholic-run orphanage in Bethlehem offers a refuge of love, stability amid ongoing war

Gaza pastor: ‘We remain in the hands of the Lord’

Vatican

Pope adds feast day of St. John Henry Newman to universal calendar

by Carol Glatz

Opinion

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