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Cindy Wooden writes for Catholic News Service.

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Paper covers the mosaics of Father Marko Rupnik July 23, 2024, in the Luminous Mysteries Chapel at the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada)

Vatican appoints judges in Rupnik trial

Cindy Wooden|Oct 13, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV receives a painting from Sister Norma Pimentel, an artist, a Missionary of Jesus and executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Texas, during an audience at the Vatican Oct. 2, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Migrants, refugees are often models of hope and faith, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Oct 2, 2025|4 Min Read

Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor and former California governor, speaks during a Vatican news conference on “Raising Hope for Climate Justice” Sept. 30, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Schwarzenegger says joint action needed to 'terminate' pollution

Cindy Wooden|Sep 30, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV, in choosing a theme for World Communications Day 2026, highlights the need to safeguard human voices and faces in the digital era, ensuring technology like artificial intelligence serves humanity rather than replacing it. In this file photo from June 14, 2025, Pope Leo greets people as they hold up cellphones to take photos and videos as he enters St. Peter’s Basilica for an audience with pilgrims in Rome for the Holy Year 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope's communications day theme focuses on using media responsibly

Cindy Wooden|Sep 29, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists and installs 39 people in the ministry of catechist as they kneel before him in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 28, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope tells catechists their love and witness can change lives

Cindy Wooden|Sep 28, 2025|7 Min Read

Melissa Villalobos of Chicago lights a candle during a vigil in advance of the canonization of St. John Henry Newman, at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Oct. 12, 2019. Villalobos' healing through the intercession of St. John Henry Newman was accepted as the miracle needed for the British cardinal's canonization. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope will declare St. John Henry Newman doctor of the church Nov. 1

Cindy Wooden|Sep 28, 2025|2 Min Read

In the Vatican's new courtroom on the ground floor of the Apostolic Palace Sept. 22, 2025, judges, lawyers and others attend the first session of the Vatican City State Court of Appeals consideration of the appeal of Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight other defendants convicted in late 2023 of crimes related to the Vatican's huge financial loss on an investment property in London. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican appeals court makes major ruling in financial fraud case

Cindy Wooden|Sep 26, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV leads the recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 24, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

God's love can reach anyone, even at 'rock bottom,' pope says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 24, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV gives his homily at Mass in the Vatican Church of St. Anne Sept. 21, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Use wealth to help people, not destroy them, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 22, 2025|3 Min Read

Msgr. Laurence Spiteri, a judge on the Roman Rota, a Vatican court, holds a public conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. at a Jubilee of Justice event in the Palazzo della Cancelleria in Rome Sept. 20, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

LA Archdiocese priest speaks with Supreme Court Justice during Vatican's Justice Jubilee

Cindy Wooden|Sep 21, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV blesses the child of a participant in a reflection on "the future of life and the family" in Latin America during an audience at the Vatican Sept. 19, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Family's role in church, society needs support, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 19, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV answers a question from Elise Allen, senior correspondent at Crux, during an interview at the pope's residence inside the Vatican's Palazzo Sant'Uffizio July 30, 2025. The biography of the pope is titled, "Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century," and it will be published in Spanish by Penguin Peru Sept. 18. English and Portuguese editions of the book will be released in early 2026. (CNS photo/courtesy Crux)

In interview, pope talks about abuse crisis, Trump, following Pope Francis, and AI

Cindy Wooden|Sep 18, 2025|7 Min Read

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