Samuel Petrequin

Pope Leo XIV will visit the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes this weekend as part of his apostolic journey to France. The site near the Spanish border draws millions of pilgrims annually, including sick and disabled believers hoping for a cure from the famed spring water in the Lourdes grotto. 

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been removed from the latest round of European Union sanctions to punish Russia's invasion of Ukraine.