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Why is St. Jude the patron saint of lost causes?

Why is St. Jude the patron saint of lost causes?

A candle of St. Jude. / Credit: Francesca Pollio/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 28, 2...

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Pope Leo XIV: There’s no template for synodality across all countries

Pope Leo XIV: There’s no template for synodality across...

Pope Leo XIV sits next to Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the V...

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Pope Leo XIV gives advice for living with hope in a ‘troubled era’

Pope Leo XIV gives advice for living with hope in a ‘tr...

Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hop...

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PHOTOS: Cardinal Burke celebrates Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica

PHOTOS: Cardinal Burke celebrates Latin Mass in St. Pet...

Pilgrims participate in a Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the...

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Pope Leo: Don’t let tension between tradition, novelty become ‘harmful polarizations’

Pope Leo: Don’t let tension between tradition, novelty ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of Sy...

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Pope Leo XIV: The first lesson for every bishop is humility

Pope Leo XIV: The first lesson for every bishop is humi...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates a Mass of episcopal consecration at the Altar of t...

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Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III make history with first joint prayer since Reformation

Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III make history with fir...

Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III walk together in the Sistine Chapel duri...

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Pope Leo XIV criticizes pharmaceutical industry’s role in scourge of opioid addiction

Pope Leo XIV criticizes pharmaceutical industry’s role ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with participants of the fifth World Meeting of Popular...

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Pope Leo XIV encourages Order of the Holy Sepulchre in its mission in the Holy Land

Pope Leo XIV encourages Order of the Holy Sepulchre in ...

Pope Leo XIV addresses the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre at the Vatican on...

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Fact check: Did the Vatican Library open a prayer room for Muslims?

Fact check: Did the Vatican Library open a prayer room ...

A view of the Vatican Apostolic Library in 2021. / Credit: Franco Origlia/...

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5 ways St. John Paul II changed the Catholic Church forever

5 ways St. John Paul II changed the Catholic Church for...

In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all ...

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Pope Leo XIV to name St. John Henry Newman a patron saint of Catholic education

Pope Leo XIV to name St. John Henry Newman a patron sai...

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba...

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Cardinal, Vatican journalists condemn threat to free press after assaults on journalists

Cardinal, Vatican journalists condemn threat to free pr...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrates a Mass for peace in Ukraine on Nov. 17,...

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Pope Leo XIV: Sadness in life can be healed through Christ

Pope Leo XIV: Sadness in life can be healed through Christ

Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during his general audience in St. Peter’s Squa...

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Pope Leo XIV canonizes 7 new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea

Pope Leo XIV canonizes 7 new saints, including first fr...

A Venezuelan priest who concelebrated the canonization Mass with Pope Leo ...

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Pope Leo XIV asks Catholics in Russia to be an example of love, brotherhood, and respect

Pope Leo XIV asks Catholics in Russia to be an example ...

Pope Leo XIV greets Catholic pilgrims from Russia during an audience in th...

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Meet the 7 saints Pope Leo XIV will canonize on Oct. 19

Meet the 7 saints Pope Leo XIV will canonize on Oct. 19

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian...

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Pope Leo XIV says first canonized couple give example of ‘marriage as a path to holiness’

Pope Leo XIV says first canonized couple give example o...

Louis and Zelie Martin. Public Domain image. / null Vatican City, Oct 18,...

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Worldwide Catholic population up, vocations down

Worldwide Catholic population up, vocations down

Pope Leo XIV is seen here at the Jubilee of Youth on August 3, 2025. / Cre...

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Pope Leo XIV hails Roma, Sinti, and Travelers’ faith amid marginalization

Pope Leo XIV hails Roma, Sinti, and Travelers’ faith am...

Pope Leo XIV hugs a man during the Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers o...