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Pope Leo XIV at Psychiatric Hospital: ‘God Loves Us Just As We Are’

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Pope Leo XIV: Universities Must Seek Truth and Form the Whole Person

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Meet the Pathologist Performing Autopsies on the Great Saints

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Remembering Pope Francis: 9 Moments That Defined His Legacy

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Pope Leo XIV Will Be Able to Speak Spanish in This African Nation

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Pope Leo XIV Recalls Pope Francis a Year After His Death

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Pope departs from Angola, heads to Equatorial Guinea (CWN)

Following a private Mass at the apostolic nunciature and a farewell ceremony (video), Pope Leo XIV departed this morning from Luanda, Angola’s capital and largest city, for Equatorial Guinea.

Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado religious freedom case (Religion Clause)

The United States Supreme Court agreed to rule on whether religious schools may be excluded from state programs for adhering to traditional Christian teaching on sexuality.

The Becket Fund, which is representing Catholic parents in the case, explained:

In 2022, Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood created a universal preschool program to provide all kids with 15 hours per week of free education at a private or public school of their parents’ choice in the year before kindergarten ...

When implementing this program, however, the Department chose to deny this benefit to parents who send their kids to Catholic schools. Rather than work with all licensed preschools in Colorado, the Department imposed restrictions that categorically barred the Archdiocese of Denver’s Catholic preschools from participating—excluding over 1,500 kids attending over 30 different preschools simply because their parents chose a Catholic education.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops filed a brief in the case.

Ukrainian Catholic leader reports on Russian vandalism, seizure of parish (Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church)

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said that Russian forces vandalized a Greek Catholic parish in Tokmak before handing it over to Russian Orthodox clergy.

Major Archbishop Shevchuk also thanked Pope Leo for his appeals for peace:

It was especially important to hear this voice in the light of the Lord’s Easter—the feast of the victory of life over death—when we welcome the Risen Christ among us as the Prince of Peace. In supporting the Holy Father in this struggle against war in the modern world, we want the whole world to hear: Ukraine stands. Ukraine fights. Ukraine prays!