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Pope Leo XIV opens the door to the papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 11.

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Pope Leo to include housemates in Apostolic Palace

 Italian daily newspaper reports that Augustinian friars are expected to join Leo when he moves into the papal apartment so that he can continue the communal life of his religious order.

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Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims as he arrives in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican for his weekly general audience Aug. 20, 2025. (CNS/Lola Gomez)
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Pope Leo is moving into the papal apartments. Don't overinterpret that decision.

We can hope that the move does not undo one of the signature achievements of Pope Francis: He broke up the court atmosphere that surrounded previous popes, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters. 

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First responders block the crime scene following a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis Aug. 27.

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Minneapolis gunman, firing through Catholic church windows, kills 2 children

 Shooting at the opening Mass for Annunciation Catholic School in south Minneapolis, also wounds 17. The assailant died by suicide behind the church, police said. 

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Cardinal Zuppi leads seven-hour prayer, naming every child killed in Holy Land war

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After 800 years, St. Francis' 'Canticle of the Creatures' still offers radical vision

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A man prays near crosses outside Annunciation Church in Minneapolis Aug. 28, 2025, following a shooting the previous day. A shooter opened fire with a rifle through the windows of the school's church and struck children attending Mass Aug. 27 during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called "absolutely incomprehensible." (OSV News/Reuters/Tim Evans)

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The mysterium iniquitatis, the mystery of evil, revealed itself Wednesday morning in a leafy Minneapolis neighborhood, not just lawlessness, but evil, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.

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The damaged windows are boarded up at Annunciation Catholic Church after Wednesday's school shooting, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025, in Minneapolis. (AP photo/Abbie Parr)

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Pope Leo waves.

Time magazine honors Pope Leo as 'spiritual counterweight' to Silicon Valley on AI

 The publication noted the pontiff's link to Leo XIII, whose 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum "railed against the new machine-driven economic systems converting workers into commodities."

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Pope to inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si' during Season of Creation

Two months after celebrating a new Mass "for the care of creation," Pope Leo XIV will return to Castel Gandolfo to formally inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si', a place of education, ecology and spirituality in the papal summer estate.

ByCindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Pope pleads with Israel and Hamas to end the violence

"I plead for all hostages to be freed, a permanent ceasefire to be reached, the safe entry of humanitarian aid to be facilitated and humanitarian law to be fully respected," the pope said at the end of his weekly general audience Aug. 27.

ByCindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
The Leo Chronicles: With two Leos now at the Vatican, does the church have everything it needs?
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The Leo Chronicles: Two Leos at the Vatican

The Leo Chronicles: With two Leos now at the Vatican, does the church have everything it needs? 

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Vatican official warns of AI’s hidden costs to environment, work and society

Bishop Paul Tighe, a top official at the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education, urged caution around AI's environmental and social costs in his address to the Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology at Trinity College.

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Pope to inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si' during Season of Creation

Two months after celebrating a new Mass "for the care of creation," Pope Leo XIV will return to Castel Gandolfo to formally inaugurate Borgo Laudato Si', a place of education, ecology and spirituality in the papal summer estate.

ByCindy Wooden, Catholic News Service
A woman collects water for washing as floodwaters begin to recede in the aftermath of a 2019 cyclone near Beira, Mozambique. Many climate scientists have associated an increased number of natural disasters and their severity with climate change. (CNS/Reuters/Mike Hutchings)

World court ruling raises Catholic teaching on creation care to legal level

A new advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice says a healthy environment is a foundational human right and nations are required to act on climate change — or face consequences.

ByBrian Roewe
This image and others were discovered Aug. 6 on a field camera by one of the more than 40 volunteer citizen-scientists who help monitor endangered jaguars and ocelots roaming in southern Arizona for the nonprofit University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center in Tucson, Arizona. (Courtesy of the University of Arizona Wild Cat Research and Conservation Center)

Activists decry new border wall's impact on wildlife

The Trump administration is muscling forward with plans to wall off a critical international wildlife corridor, building a barrier along a gap on the U.S.-Mexico border. Catholics join activists worrying about irreparable ecological harm.

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Mia Threapleton in Wes Anderson’s "The Phoenician Scheme." When her father lures Liesl out of the convent to prepare her to take over the family business, father and daughter must reckon with their wildly opposing views of life, relationships and morality. (Universal Pictures)

The many faces of the movie nun

Cinema tends to reduce female characters to stereotypes, and nuns are not exempt. While some recent films (and a TV show) have upended the stereotype, there are still nun stories we aren't telling.

In Seth Worley's "Sketch," a father, son and daughter are reeling from the death of the children's mother. When the girl's sketchbook falls into a mysterious pond and her grief monster drawings come to life, the family must work together to vanquish the creatures that have been unleashed. (Angel Studios)

Seth Worley on directing 'Sketch' and empowering kids to make art out of pain

NCR spoke with Worley about his new movie 'Sketch' and the weighty responsibility of creating stories for children.

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Resembling a Miraculous Medal, this pendant was most likely government propaganda aimed at American Catholics according to an explanatory sign at the "Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace" exhibit. (Mary Ann Cejka)

Mary on a mushroom cloud? 'Atoms for Peace' propaganda on display in NYC

The display is at the Poster House in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood until Sept. 7. The posters of the past are windows into history  — and often, uncanny oracles of the present.

ByMary Ann Cejka
The popular Netflix film 'KPop Demon Hunters' centers young women navigating a social spirituality, with themes of shame, vulnerability and acceptance. (Netflix)

'KPop Demon Hunters' and St. Teresa of Avila have a lot in common

While the popular Netflix film "KPop Demon Hunters" does contain the classic humor of anime-style teen media, the story centers young women navigating a social spirituality, with themes of shame, vulnerability and acceptance. 

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Reporter's Notebook: The Spirit moves sisters, and this reporter, to tears

"LCWR assemblies are wonderful," writes national correspondent Dan Stockman, "but they don't usually change your outlook on life. This one, for me at least, did exactly that."

Refugees gather for aid distribution in White Nile State, Sudan, as Catholic sisters coordinate the delivery of essential supplies to families uprooted by war. (Courtesy of Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus)

In war-torn Sudan, Catholic sisters stay behind to serve the forgotten

Without one sister's help, "I would have died," said a 34-year-old mother and refugee receiving care from the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who have stayed in Sudan despite the brutal civil war.

ByDoreen Ajiambo
Sr. Rosario Obiniana speaks during her investiture as the 21st president of St. Scholastica's College, Manila, Philippines, on Sept. 12, 2024. Before assuming the presidency she headed St. Scholastica's College in Tacloban, a city in Central Philippines. (Courtesy of St. Scholastica's College Manila)

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She is the 21st president of St. Scholastica's College Manila in the Philippines, a school renowned for educating Filipino women.

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At this year's LCWR annual assembly in Atlanta, U.S. sisters focused on hope, surrender and transformation.

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