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Pope Leo XIV meets with the leadership and staff of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s global charitable network operating in more than 200 countries, on Nov. 21, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV to Caritas: Be Artisans of Peace, Serve Every Person With Dignity

Nov 21, 2025

Pope Leo XIV on Friday met with the leadership and staff of Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s global charitable network operating in more than 200 countries.

Erik Dike, a rising senior nursing student at Belmont Abbey College, carries a patient onboard a hospital ship in Madagascar during a two-week program with Mercy Ships. / Credit: Joshua Kiew Wing Chau

“Being on Mercy Ships completely transformed me”: One of Three U.S. Catholic Nursing Students on Madagascar Experience

Sep 11, 2025

Three nursing students from a Catholic liberal arts school in North Carolina spent two weeks on a hospital ship in Madagascar this summer.

Grace Center in northern Ethiopia provides extensive care and support to over 50,000 individuals yearly of all ages and abilities. / Credit: Marcie Erickson

Grace Center in Ethiopia: How One Woman’s "vision from God" Led to Helping Thousands of Lives

Mar 23, 2025

“At Grace Center we ask: What would Jesus do for this person? Then we do the same,” founder and executive director of Grace Center Marcie Erickson told CNA.

Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address on Feb. 11, 2024. | Vatican Media

Pope on Our Lady of Lourdes Feast: The Church is Close to all who are Sick or Frail

Feb 11, 2024

Speaking on a rainy Sunday in Rome from the window of the Apostolic Palace to the crowd huddled under umbrellas below, the pope said that he wanted to express the closeness “of the entire Church to all those who are sick or frail.”

Pope Francis waves during the Angelus Nov. 15, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media.

Make Choices With Eternity in Mind: Pope Francis on Christ the King

Nov 22, 2020

On Christ the King Sunday, Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to make choices with eternity in mind, by thinking not about what they want to do, but what is best to do.