Pope Leo spoke to members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See in the Vatican Apostolic Palace Jan. 9.
Haiti
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Seventeen Catholic priests, sisters, seminarians and lay workers were murdered in 2025, according to Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news agency.
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Mary “walks with us in our struggles, not as a distant figure, but as a mother. She accompanies us in the battle and reminds us hope is stronger than fear.”
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Irish missionary freed after monthlong kidnapping in Haiti amid worsening gang violence
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsThe NGO for which the missionary works, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, reported the news with “deep gratitude and a relief that cannot be described in words.”
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An Irish parish priest described kidnapped missionary as a “wonderful, generous, caring and compassionate person.”
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“We raise our voices today to demand freedom for our colleague and friend Gena Heraty.”
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Gena Heraty was among several taken by gunmen in the early hours of Aug. 3 from the Saint-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff, near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince.
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Wisconsin abortion ban, Big Beautiful Bill, care for creation Mass | Week in Review
by Megan Marleyby Megan MarleyThe end of a longstanding ban on abortions in Wisconsin, a care for creation Mass being added to the Roman Missal, and the passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill …
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“Many people are afraid, and I see now that church attendance is less,” said the chaplain of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Haitian Catholic community.
