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Mourners gathered June 16 to bid farewell to Fortune Aimaya Losike, a 15-year-old Catholic schoolgirl who died while reportedly rescuing fellow students from a dormitory fire.

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Pope Leo XIV presided Thursday over the funeral rites for Cardinal Camillo Ruini, remembering him as a servant of the Church who “knew how to guide the people of God.”

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Pope Leo XIV on Thursday emphasized the value of the Eastern Catholic Churches, warning that failing to understand them is harmful to the Church, in an address to members of the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches.

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Peruvian President José María Balcázar confirmed to reporters Pope Leo XIV's intention to visit five cities in the country — Lima, Chiclayo, Piura, Pucallpa, and Cusco — during the first half of November.

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Amid a legal dispute, the federal government will be permitted to put down a six-figure deposit as it moves to acquire a large parcel of land from the Diocese of Las Cruces in order to install fencing and other security measures on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The pope has declared as venerable the American religious sister Mary Teresa Tallon. In a June 18 decree, Leo recognized the heroic virtue of the foundress of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate in New York, among several others.

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In a private audience on June 18 with the board of governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Pope Leo XIV urged university leaders to be artisans for peace in a world characterized by increased polarization and violence.

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Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo have raised alarm over what they describe as a worsening wave of insecurity targeting ecclesial institutions and parishes.

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Princeton University professor Robert P. George called for a renewed commitment to America’s founding values at an event promoting “Fidelity Month,” a month dedicated to strengthening faithfulness to God, family, community, and country.

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Cardinal Camillo Ruini, a formidable strategist of the Church in Italy during the pontificate of St. John Paul II and a key architect of its post-Cold War engagement with politics and culture, died Tuesday in Rome.

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The lack of vocations threatens the closure after more than a century of the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Ronda, Spain, which houses the incorrupt left hand of St. Teresa of Ávila. The relic’s final destination will be decided in the coming months.

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With the 2026 FIFA World Cup playoffs as a backdrop, Ramón Castro Castro, bishop of Cuernavaca and president of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, called on Catholics to work together, affirming that in the Church, “we have Jesus Christ as our captain.”

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In response to a shortage of Communion hosts in Cuba, the Catholic Church in Panama announced that it had sent 35,000 hosts, while another 300,000 were sent from Puerto Rico, to support the celebration of the Eucharist.

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The Catholic bishops of England and Wales are “deeply disappointed” that an assisted suicide bill will again be back in Parliament, calling instead for improvements in palliative care.

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A viral controversy revived the claim that Iceland aborts nearly every baby with Down syndrome. Catholic sources there, and Iceland’s own data, tell a fuller story.

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Prague’s St. Vitus Cathedral has inaugurated a new pipe organ, blessed in a striking rite in which the archbishop called the instrument to “wake up” and fill the cathedral with music.

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At a general audience on June 17, Pope Leo XIV reflected on his recent apostolic journey to Spain. He described it as a profound experience of Catholic tradition, contemporary culture, and European cultural heritage.

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Pope Leo XIV assured his prayers “for all parents who suffer the loss of a child, especially a baby,” on the occasion of the upcoming Day for Life, which will be celebrated in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland this coming Sunday, June 21.

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Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda appealed to the Chaldean patriarch to be a voice for Ankawa, Iraq’s largest Christian district.

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Silvio Báez, the exiled auxiliary bishop of Managua, Nicaragua, stated in his June 14 homily in Miami that the task of Catholics to “cast out demons” also entails denouncing the cruelty and irrationality of dictatorships that violate human dignity.

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