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Peruvian ex-priest responds to Crux coverage

Vatican

Pope Leo XIV explained that love is “not the result of chance, but of a conscious choice” during his General Audience on Aug. 6, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Leave room for God, Pope Leo says at General Audience

Aug 6
Crux Staff

A faithful throws a keffiyeh as Pope Leo XIV arrives for a Mass with young people participating in the Youths Jubilee at the Tor Vergata field in Rome, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV tells 1 million Catholic youths that they are ‘the sign a different world is possible’

Aug 3
Colleen Barry,
Paolo Santalucia, Associated Press

An estimated one million pilgrims came to Tor Vergata for the vigil in Rome on the evening of Aug. 2, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo warns against abuse of social media in speech to young pilgrims

Aug 3
Charles Collins

Young people participate in the Youth Jubilee at the Tor Vergata field in Rome, Italy, Aug. 2, 2025. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.)

A half-million young Catholics invade Rome, awaiting Pope Leo XIV at Holy Year youth festival

Aug 2
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Pope Leo giving the group of Egyptian pilgrims his blessing in the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on Aug. 8, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo meets with pilgrims after Egyptian girl dies of heart failure during Jubilee

Aug 2
Crux Staff

A view of the antennas of Vatican Radio in Santa Maria di Galeria on April 11, 2001. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world’s first carbon-neutral state

Aug 1
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press

Coverup allegations against Leo spun by defrocked priest

Aug 1
Elise Ann Allen

Tapestry of St. John Henry Newman in St. Peter's Basilica for his canonization in 2019. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

British Saint John Henry Newman to be declared Doctor of the Church

Jul 31
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV speaks during his General Audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, July 30, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo expresses ‘deep sorrow’ over deadly attack on church in DR Congo

Jul 30
Charles Collins

Pope Leo XIV arrives on the Popemobile as youth gathered in St. Peter's Square on Tuesday evening, July 29, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Pope Leo XIV surprises Catholic youth festival with unexpected popemobile salute

Jul 29
Nicole Winfield,
Associated Press