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A view of the antennas of the Vatican Radio, which beams the Pope's words around the world, is seen in Santa Maria di Galeria, on the outskirts of Rome, on April 11, 2001. (AP Photo/ Gregorio Borgia, File)

Vatican strikes solar farm deal to become the world's first carbon-neutral state

Archbishop Adrian Galbas of Warsaw, Poland, prays during Mass March 13, 2025, in Warsaw's Temple of Divine Providence. Archbishop Galbas in a July 25 statement said that he was "devastated and crushed" by the arrest of a diocesan priest in the brutal murder of a homeless man July 24 and the priest's confession to police he did it. (OSV News/courtesy Polish bishops' conference)

Warsaw archbishop asks Vatican to defrock Polish priest charged with the killing of a homeless man

Pope Benedict XVI, right, celebrates a beatification mass for Cardinal John Henry Newman in Birmingham, England, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope to bestow one of Catholic Church's highest honors on Anglican convert John Henry Newman

Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City July 24, 2025, amid a hunger crisis. For months, U.N. officials, aid groups and experts have warned that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are on the brink of famine without formally declaring one. (OSV News/Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)

Against the odds, CRS has delivered aid to 1.7 million in Gaza since 2023