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Pope warns against risks of AI algorithms

Pope Leo XIV warned that AI tools increase “the difficulty of distinguishing between reality and simulation”.

Pope Leo invited to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’, cardinal says

Pope Leo - the first US pope and a critic of some of US President Donald Trump’s policies - is said to be evaluating the invitation to join Mr Trump's so-called "Board of Peace".

Top US Catholic cardinals question morality of American foreign policy

FILE PHOTO: Cardinals Joseph Tobin and Blase Cupich attend a press conference following the election of Pope Leo XIV, at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Italy, May 9, 2025. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo

Pope Leo to visit Angola as part of an Africa tour, Vatican envoy says

Pope Leo XIV gestures during the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, January 7, 2026. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo

Pope Leo meets Venezuelan opposition leader Machado at Vatican

FILE PHOTO: Pope Leo XIV holds the weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, January 7, 2026. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo

Listen to abuse victims, Pope tells cardinals

Pope Leo XIV said the abuse of children and vulnerable adults by priests was still a “wound” in the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo urges kindness to foreigners in closing Catholic Holy Year

Pope Leo closed the Catholic Church’s Holy Year on Jan 6 by sealing shut the special “Holy Door” in St Peter’s Basilica.

Rome welcomed record 33.5 million pilgrims for Catholic Holy Year

Cardinal Baldo Reina closing a Holy Door, as part of the end of the Catholic Jubilee Year, in Rome on Dec 27, 2025.

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God

Pope Leo XIV celebrates Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Dec 24.

Pope Leo’s new US bishops are critics of Trump’s migrant crackdown

FILE PHOTO: Pope Leo XIV holds an audience for the Jubilee in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, December 20, 2025. REUTERS/Vincenzo Livieri/File Photo

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