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Cindy Wooden writes for Catholic News Service.

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Palestinians walk amid rubble after an Israeli missile strike hit an evacuated residential building at Shati (Beach) refugee camp in Gaza City Sept. 11, 2025. (OS News photo/Ebrahim Hajjaj, Reuters)

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Pope phones Gaza parish as Israel launches new offensive on city

Cindy Wooden|Sep 16, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV receives the letters of credential of Brian F. Burch as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See during an audience Sept. 13, 2025, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope welcomes Burch as new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See

Cindy Wooden|Sep 13, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV and newly appointed bishops, including about a dozen from the United States, begin a meeting at the Vatican Sept. 11, 2025, by singing "Veni Creator Spiritus," invoking the Holy Spirit. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Pope to new bishops on priest abuse: 'These cannot be put in a drawer'

Cindy Wooden|Sep 12, 2025|4 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV prays before a statue of Mary and the Child Jesus behind the relics of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati during the Mass for their canonization in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 7, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

World

'We need to pray a lot,' pope says after Israeli attack in Qatar

Cindy Wooden|Sep 9, 2025|2 Min Read

Archbishop Fabio Fabene, secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, speaks about the Jubilee commemoration of "new martyrs and witnesses of the faith" during a news conference in the Vatican press office Sept. 8, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)

Jubilee event to honor modern martyrs as symbols of hope

Cindy Wooden|Sep 8, 2025|4 Min Read

Peace comes from dialogue, not 'walls and barbed wire,' pope says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 5, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV and Israeli President Isaac Herzog exchange gifts at the end of their meeting in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Sept. 4, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope meets Israeli president, discusses 'tragic' situation in Gaza

Cindy Wooden|Sep 4, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV greets members of the Jesus Bikers motorcycle club from Germany before autographing a modified BMW R18 motorcycle they presented with representatives of Missio Austria in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 3, 2025. The motorcycle will be auctioned by Sotheby’s, and proceeds will help Missio Austria build a school for children who work in the mica mines in Madagascar. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Salvation comes from being strong enough to ask God for help, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Sep 3, 2025|3 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV waves to visitors and pilgrims in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Aug. 31, 2025, before leading the recitation of the Angelus prayer. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope prays for Minneapolis victims, denounces 'pandemic' of gun violence

Cindy Wooden|Aug 31, 2025|2 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV greets children and families in traditional attire during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Aug. 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Hope is knowing that God is near and that love will win, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Aug 27, 2025|4 Min Read

Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, prays as he stands on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Pope's first World Peace Day message draws from his first public greeting

Cindy Wooden|Aug 26, 2025|3 Min Read

Pilgrims enter the Shrine of the Renunciation, where Blessed Carlo Acutis is buried, in Assisi, Italy, Aug. 21, 2025. Acutis who died in 2006, will be canonized Sept. 7 at the Vatican by Pope Leo XIV. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)

Eucharist and charity: The traits that unite Pope Leo's first saints

Cindy Wooden|Aug 26, 2025|4 Min Read

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