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President Emmanuel Macron of France meets with Pope Leo XIV on April 10, 2026 in the Vatican. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope to visit France in September with a stop at UNESCO

  • May 16
  • Associated Press
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech next to the submarine ‘Le Temeraire’ (The Temerarious) at the Nuclear submarines Navy base of Ile Longue in Crozon, France, Monday March 2, 2026. (Credit: Yoan Valat/Pool Photo via AP.)

French Senate rejects assisted suicide bill again

  • May 14
  • Fionn Shiner
Members of the French parliament in Paris, France, on Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Michel Euler/AP.)

France the latest European country to consider assisted suicide

  • May 12
  • Fionn Shiner
Migrants disembark at the port of “La Estaca” in Valverde at the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024. (Credit: Maria Ximena/AP.)

Ahead of Pope’s visit to Canary Islands, bishop warns using immigration for votes is a ‘ticking time bomb’

  • May 11
  • Fionn Shiner
Passengers are disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (Credit: Manu Fernandez/AP.)

Pope Leo thanks Spain for letting hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship get to Canary Islands

  • May 10
  • Iain Sullivan, 
    Suman Naishadham

Pope spends anniversary afternoon in Naples, ‘city of a thousand colors’

  • May 9
  • Christopher R. Altieri
An elaborately decorated skeleton stands in the catholic monastery church of Banz in Bad Staffelstein, Germany, Saturday, May 2, 2026. (Credit: Matthias Schrader/AP.)

Elaborately decorated skeletons in Catholic churches across Bavaria take some visitors by surprise

  • May 9
  • Kirsten Grieshaber
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni during his two-day visit to Italy and the Vatican, in Rome, Friday, May 8, 2026. (Credit: Stefano Rellandini/Pool Photo via AP.)

Rubio presses Europe on Iran action as he seeks to mend ties with Italy and Vatican

  • May 9
  • Giada Zampano, 
    Nicole Winfield
View of the Inner Alster, or Binnenalster in Hamburg, Germany Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (Credit: Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP.)

‘Vote consciously’: German church launches campaign for crucial regional elections that could see far-right victory

  • May 7
  • Fionn Shiner
Pope Leo XIV arrives as he holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope will inaugurate Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia tower and meet with migrants in June trip to Spain

  • May 7
  • Nicole Winfield, 
    Suman Naishadham, Renata Brito

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Leo XIV at Regina Caeli: Putting humanity first in the AI age

  • May 17
  • Christopher R. Altieri

In the AI revolution, Leo XIV wants a third way between Terminator and Wall-E

  • May 17
  • Charles Collins

Pope to visit France in September with a stop at UNESCO

  • May 16
  • Associated Press

New Orleans kept accused priest in pulpit despite complaints: misconduct ‘involved adults’, archdiocese admits

  • May 16
  • Christopher R. Altieri