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…
Pope Leo has been traveling in Turkey and Lebanon, doing what popes do on such occasions: Visiting religious and political leaders, signing agreements about further “dialogue,” calling for peace and respect for human dignity. All good things,…
Pope Leo XIV dedicated the final morning of his visit to Turkey on Sunday to strengthening ties with the Armenian Apostolic Church, thanking God for “the courageous Christian witness of the Armenian people throughout history, often amid tragic…
Pope Leo XIV showed reporters that the in-flight news conferences of his predecessors will continue. He even answered reporters’ questions in the middle of a trip between Turkey and Lebanon. On Gaza, he said, “the Holy See for many years has…
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