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The pope with boys and girls from Italian Catholic Action on Dec. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media

The "most valuable" Gift to Give this Christmas, According to Pope Leo XIV

Dec 20, 2025

Pope Leo XIV told the young people of Italian Catholic Action that they can perform a simple gesture that would be the best gift this Christmas: make peace.

Children participating in a Catholic Action initiative helped to release colorful balloons at the end of the Angelus on Jan. 30, 2022. Vatican Media

"The Lord always surprises us": Pope Francis

Jan 30, 2022

Pope Francis encouraged people to be open to the newness Jesus wants to bring in their daily lives and to cultivate the capacity to wonder.

Pope Francis meets a delegation of the French Catholic Action movement at the Vatican, Jan. 13, 2021. Vatican Media.

Synodality Not a "search for majority consensus": Pope Francis

Jan 13, 2022

The pope was speaking to French Catholic Action groups.

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World Day of Consecrated Life: South Sudanese Bishop Urges Proactive Vocations Promotion to Safeguard Church’s Future

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“We search in wrong places,” Catholic Archbishop Urges Nigerians to Seek True Happiness beyond Worldly Pleasures

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Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe Bishops Create Special Commissions for Pope Leo XIV’s Anticipated Visit

Members of the Zambia Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCCB). Credit: ZCCB

“A vocation of service to human family”: Zambia’s Catholic Bishops Decry Wrong notion of Politics Ahead of August Polls

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Pope Leo XIV Exhorts Catholic Bishops in Lesotho to Walk Together “as a Church that listens”

Friar Godfrey Nzamujo, founder of the Songhai Center in Porto-Novo, Benin. Credit: ACI Africa

“Land is Angola’s social security”: Catholic Church, Government Urged to Lead Agricultural Regeneration Efforts

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Over 200 Killed in Coltan Mine Collapse in Eastern DR Congo as Cardinal Ambongo Decries Resource Exploitation

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A World Scattered, A Youth Unheard: Kenyan Catholic Bishop on Why Kenya and the World “need the spirit of Don Bosco”

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“Our hearts go out to thousands”: SECAM President Joins Pope Leo XIV in Solidarity with Southern Africa Flood Victims

Bishop Hilary Nanman Dachelem of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Bauchi. Credit: ACI Africa

Guarantee Right to Religious Freedom, Catholic Bishop Urges Nigerian Government, Decries Ongoing Christian Persecution

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Catholic Bishop in South Sudan Urges Youths to Be Builders of Peace and Development at Diocesan Festival

From the opening of St. Francis of Assisi’s tomb in 2015, showing the then-custos of the Sacred Convent, Father Mauro Gambetti, inspecting the remains of the saint’s body. | Credit: Photo courtesy of the Sacred Convent of Assisi

Hundreds of Thousands Register to Venerate Relics of St. Francis of Assisi

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“Our problems are self-inflicted”: Cardinal Onaiyekan on Nigeria’s Deepening Crisis

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Young Catholic Adults, The Consecrated Converge in Groundbreaking Youth Synod in Southern Africa

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Pope Leo XIV Exhorts Catholic Bishops in Lesotho to Walk Together “as a Church that listens”

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