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Pope Francis
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President of the Governorate Fernando Vérgez Alzaga
Pope Leo waves as he leads the Angelus prayer at the Vatican on Sunday. Photo: Reuters
Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo’s cancer is ‘game changer’ for papacy, Vatican foreign minister says

The illness has revealed that the ‘Superman’ pontiff is a ‘poor mortal like the rest of us’, Archbishop Paul Gallagher says.

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Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo doesn’t need further treatment for lung cancer, doctors say

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European Union

Pope Leo pledges return to duties following lung cancer surgery

Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo leaves hospital 4 days after lung cancer surgery

He will lead prayers at the Vatican for pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, his first ⁠public engagement since he went into hospital.

Pope Leo leaves Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic on Saturday. Photo: AP
Ukraine war

From hospital, Pope Leo pushes Putin for ceasefire in contested Ukraine city

The call suggests the pontiff, who is recovering from a lung cancer operation, is still hard at work.

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Video | Prayers and well-wishes for Pope Leo after lung surgery

Vatican says the 71-year-old pontiff spent a peaceful night after a 90-minute operation to remove part of his lung was completed without complications.

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Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo diagnosed with cancer after surgery to remove part of his lung

Vatican says 71-year-old pontiff spent a peaceful night after 90-minute operation was completed without complications.

A statue of Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s Gemelli hospital where Pope Leo had his surgery. Photo: EPA
Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo to undergo surgery for small growth on lung

The growth was ‘well-contained’ and detected at an early stage.

Pope Leo XIV

Pope says AI doom concerns not ‘fake news’ in apparent rebuke of Trump

Pontiff insists AI safety issues should be discussed and acted on following apocalyptic warnings from industry professionals.

France

Pope Leo pledges action on child abuse by priests after meeting French survivors

The pope met privately with victims and heard proposals for how to improve the Church’s safeguarding measures, ‌said a Vatican statement.

Pope Leo leads the prayer of the Holy Rosary on the day of a candlelight procession, at the Grotto of the Apparitions, also known as the Grotto of Massabielle, at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France on Sunday. Photo: Reuters
France

Pope celebrates giant Paris mass in landmark visit

The first US pontiff was visiting France seven months before French voters went to the polls.

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Crowds on the Avenue des Champs-Elysees wait for Pope Leo to pass by on his way to celebrate mass in Place de la Concorde, Paris on Saturday. Photo: EPA
Mainland China

Vatican, Beijing agree on new China bishop as ordination fills 20-year vacancy

Appointment of Roman Catholic prelate in Inner Mongolia highlights uneasy yet continuing diplomatic engagement on sensitive issue.

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Italy

Pope visits Africa-Europe crossing as anti-migrant policies rise in US, EU

The Catholic Church’s first US pope has clashed with the administration of President Donald Trump over its treatment of migrants.

Religion

Vatican excommunicates 6 bishops from rebel Catholic group

Holy See responds aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent.

Newly consecrated bishops pray at the end of their consecration ceremony in Switzerland on Wednesday. Photo: AP
Americas and the Caribbean

US, Mexico Catholic bishops call for humane treatment of migrants

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in a statement opposed ‘the vilification of immigrants’ in the US under President Donald Trump.

Bishop James Misko, of Tucson, Arizona, blesses a woman’s rosary during Border Mass 250 at Parroquia de la Purisima Concepción in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, on Friday. Photo: Reuters
Italy

Pope exalts first US saint as a model for Christians for her care of migrants

Mother Frances Cabrini, patron saint of migrants, is known for caring for Italian immigrants in the US at the turn of the last century.

Spain

Pope Leo’s plane grounded, so Spain’s king gives him a ride

The pontiff flew back to Rome on the monarch’s private jet after the papal aircraft’s engine failed to start.

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Spain

Pope Leo blesses new tower at Spain’s Sagrada Familia

Spain’s king, queen and prime minister joined thousands inside the world’s tallest church to celebrate mass with the pontiff.

Fireworks explode during the inauguration of the Tower of Jesus Christ at the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
Spain

Standing ovation: Pope warns Spain’s parliament of world’s ‘profound’ crisis

Weapons can impose a temporary silence but can never build lasting peace, he said, hours after Madrid mass for over one million people.

European Union

Pope calls for ‘disarming’ of AI, technology should be ‘human friendly’

Pope Leo called for the ‘disarming’ of artificial intelligence, and warned of ‘new forms of slavery’ behind its rise.

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Pope Leo XIV

‘Human dignity’: Pope Leo, Anthropic to launch pontiff’s first AI document

The presence of the firm at the Vatican could mean a new flashpoint with the US, which in February ordered all agencies to stop using it.

Pope Leo greets a child in Pompei, Italy, on May 8 as he meets people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, including the sick and the disabled. Photo: Reuters
Italy

Rubio meets Pope Leo at Vatican to defuse tensions with Trump

The meeting comes amid the US president’s repeated attacks on the pontiff over the Iran war and nuclear weapons.

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Pope Leo (centre) meets US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Vatican on Thursday. Photo: EPA/Vatican Media
Religion

Pope to inaugurate Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia in June trip to Spain

He will also visit a migrant reception centre in the Canary Islands.

Donald Trump

‘He’s endangering a lot of Catholics’: Trump takes another shot at pope

US president’s latest criticism threatens to derail Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s high-stakes mission to Rome.

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Religion

Pope meets first female Archbishop of Canterbury in symbolic Vatican encounter

Sarah Mullally, the first woman to serve as spiritual leader of the Church of England, and the pope exchanged gifts and prayed together.

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Pope Leo meets Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally at The Vatican on Monday. Photo: Simone Risoluti / Vatican media / AFP
Africa

Pope Leo denounces ‘colonisation’ of minerals on final leg of Africa tour

The pontiff warns that a global lust for profit ‘kills’ as he meets with a government accused of widespread corruption and authoritarianism.

Pope Leo attends a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters
Africa

In Angola, Pope Leo prays at shrine that was once a hub for slavery

First American pontiff recalls centuries of ‘suffering’ at site originally built by Portuguese colonisers.

In Focus

The rupture: how Europe fell out of love with America

Many believed the transatlantic alliance could weather another term of Trump, but a year and a half on those hopes have largely faded.

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