Yesterday, Pope Leo XIV announced that he will convene a meeting of the presidents of Episcopal Conferences in October 2026 to undertake a new phase of “synodal discernment” on the future of family ministry. The announcement came in a message…
The National Constitution Center announced on Monday that the first U.S.-born Pope will receive the Liberty Medal during a public ceremony on July 3 outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S.…
Eclectic yet edifying, the Lenten spiritual exercises shared at the Vatican by the Cistercian prelate, Erik Varden, summon spiritual insight from the lives and writings of a startling range of classic and contemporary individuals. Preached in…
The General Coordinator of the Apostolic Visit of Pope Leo to Angola has raised concerns over delays in approving the logistical budget required to organize the April 18–21 event, cautioning that the slow release of funds could undermine…
The 11-day visit will combine pastoral encounters with Catholic communities, meetings with political leaders and civil society, and symbolic gestures of interreligious dialogue and reconciliation. Scheduled for April 13–23. The visit will take…
Lent at the Vatican this year feels like Advent in some ways, looking forward to long-expected moves by Pope Leo XIV. There are Vatican and archdiocesan appointments to be made, and there’s the likelihood of an encyclical. A social encyclical…
Ten months after taking office, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday finally moved into his apartments in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, a historic papal residence that his predecessor had eschewed. “This afternoon, Pope Leo XIV will take possession of the…
Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate cease-fire in the Middle East and condemned the “atrocious violence” of the U.S.-Israeli-led war on Iran, which has spread across the region. After praying the Angelus with pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s…
Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Louis Sako, the Iraq-based Chaldean Catholic patriarch of Baghdad, ending his 13-year tenure leading Iraq’s largest Christian denomination. In a separate statement released by the Chaldean…
A group of Americans, Amici Vaticani, has undertaken a project of “profound symbolic and spiritual importance”: the commissioning of a Papal Tiara to honor Pope Leo XIV. This initiative is more than an act of homage; it is a statement of unity…
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