VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV delivered his first general audience address this Wednesday morning with a speech expressing his desire to continue the cycle of Jubilee catechises that had been laid out before by Pope Francis. 

 VIENNA – As the ambitious Argentine head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi,  seeks to burnish his credentials as a candidate to be the next UN secretary general, diplomatic observers have questioned some bizarre promotions at the troubled agency such as the elevation of Imed Zabaar, a Tunisian who began his career as a G-3 dogsbody in the Commissary, the internal supermarket, who was catapulted into a new incarnation as a P-4 Administrative officer on a sky-high salary in Nuclear Energy, the Russian-led department at the Vienna-based behemoth.