In a Christmas letter to the Sacred College, Pope Leo XIV has reportedly set out the agenda for his forthcoming January consistory with Cardinals, with Church governance, synodality, and the sacred liturgy taking center stage. According to…
Offering advice to a pope is a presumptuous thing – for anyone. In the Church of synodality, however, where everyone is supposed to have a voice – and be listened to – perhaps not so presumptuous as once upon a time. Still, such counsel should…
Isabella H. de Carvalho, Vatican News Friday, December 12, 2025 During his recent General Audience, Pope Leo XIV spoke about existential questions of how human beings view death and invited us to ponder on the end of life and discover the power…
Pope Leo XIV urged European conservative politicians on Wednesday to champion the continent’s Christian heritage as a bulwark for human dignity, explicitly calling for the protection of every person “from conception to natural death” in a…
When Pope Leo XIV was elected, I realized what was happening. Pope Francis had been too radical, too overtly Marxist, too crass. He kept doing friendly interviews with atheists, defending sexual predators, making deals with the Chinese Communist…
The profile of Pope Leo XIV is among the most viewed pages on the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia, and his names — both the one he took upon beginning his pontificate on May 8 and his given name, Robert Francis Prevost — are among the most…
Some cases for sainthood move ahead with great speed, like that of St. Carlo Acutis, who was made Venerable in 2015 and canonized earlier this year. Others have experienced unorthodox setbacks, such as the cause of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen,…
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused the West of Islamophobia and rebuked Israel for targeting Christians during Pope Leo XIV’s pilgrimage to Turkey, even as the pontiff sidestepped calls from religious freedom analysts to address the…
Pope Leo XIV has referenced a book that greatly influenced his spirituality after being asked by a journalist about the conclave and what it’s been like becoming the pope. “Besides St. Augustine,” Pope Leo said The Practice of the Presence of…
On the third day of his visit in Turkey, the Pope travelled to Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, an iconic imperial mosque in the heart of Istanbul and an emblem of the country’s Islamic identity. On entering the mosque, one of its imams invited the Pope…
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