For nearly seven minutes, the Westfield High School girls soccer team enjoyed an advantage against one of Western Massachusetts’ toughest tournament teams. Unfortunately for the Bombers, it’s what happened after that that determined their fate.

This is because Camilla does not have permission to wear white when meeting the pope; only seven women in the world have that privilege. Protocol means that most women meeting the pope should wear black, with no cleavage, as well a mantilla, which is a kind of headscarf.

Your specific mission concerns the search for and common witness to the truth,” Pope Leo XIV said Oct. 24 at the Vatican.

Pope Leo XIV has authorised a traditional mass to take place this weekend at the Vatican, lifting restrictions that angered conservatives in his latest attempt to heal splits within the Catholic Church.

Almost two-thirds of humanity—more than five billion people—live in countries where serious violations of religious freedom are taking place, according to the 2025 “Religious Freedom in the World Report.

On the feast day of St. Francis, a beloved champion of the poor, Pope Leo XIV signed his first apostolic exhortation, "Dilexi Te" ("I Have Loved You").