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Pope Leo meets with a group of hermits in Rome for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life and encourages them to continue living out their vocation, helping the Church and all the faithful rediscover the importance of intimacy with God.
As the Church celebrates the Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jenny Kraska offers her thoughts on the day's Gospel reading.
The Cardinal Secretary of State speaks to journalists about the Israel-Hamas agreement signed in Egypt, the Holy See-China agreement on the appointment of bishops, and the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado.
Following the first formal meeting of Pope Leo XIV with the leadership of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Timothy Broglio speaks of the American bishops’ unity with the Holy See and its shared mission to proclaim the Gospel amid polarization and social challenges.
Paolo Ruffini, Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, tells journalists to search for alternatives to the “toxic consumption of manipulated information.”
Pope Leo welcomes a group of students and faculty from Villanova University in the United States where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 1977.
Pope Leo XIV writes a message to the International Congress on Philosophy taking place in Asuncion, Paraguay, and reaffirms the complementary role of faith and reason, and the role of Christian believers who are called to be part of the dialogue and to 'account for the reason of their hope.'
In an audience for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life, Pope Leo XIV praises the centuries of service that consecrated people have offered the Church, and thanks them for their hidden daily gestures to sustain the Church worldwide.
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has issued a fresh and urgent appeal to the government, pressing for “decisive and transparent action” against the destructive scourge of illegal mining, locally known as, Galamsey.
On the World Day Against the Death Penalty, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, Executive Director of the US-based Catholic Mobilizing Network, explores the many positive movements that have been made to abolish the death penalty, despite an uptick in executions this year.
Pope Leo XIV meets with members of Aid to the Church in Need, a pontifical foundation, and praises their work to uphold religious freedom as an essential element of human life.
The Holy See calls for universal abolition of the death penalty, noting that the unchallengeable, God-given dignity of every human person is immutable from conception to natural death.