Pope Leo XIV introduces María Montserrat Alvarado as the Vatican’s new communications chief, highlighting her experience and creativity
November 06, 2026Pope Leo ‘proud to be an American’ and vote in US midterms
November 06, 2026Pope Leo XIV says that he was “proud to be an American and to exercise the right” to vote in U.S. midterm elections that gave control of Congress to the Democrats in a repudiation of U.S. President Donald Trump and his policies
November 06, 2026A US-based clergy abuse watchdog on Thursday called for the creation of a truth commission in Peru to investigate sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, on the
November 05, 2026Catholic priests, nuns and deacons across Latin America are turning to social media to reach younger generations as church attendance and religious
November 05, 2026Bob the poet, meet Bob the priest: Pope Leo receives Bob Dylan at the Vatican
November 04, 2026Conservative US Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic on Tuesday toward a challenge by Catholic groups to a Colorado law barring anti-LGBT
November 03, 2026As Pope Leo prepares to return to South America, Peruvian abuse survivor Pedro Salinas sees reason for both hope and unease in the pope’s record confronting
October 31, 2026Pope Leo XIV cast a ballot by mail in the US midterm elections, the Vatican press office said on Friday, a historic first for the American-born
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October 30, 2026Villanova's basketball teams are set to open their season in Italy with a doubleheader against Notre Dame
October 27, 2026Pope Leo's lung cancer diagnosis and surgery has affected how Catholics view his health and papacy, the Vatican's foreign minister said on Tuesday, an
October 27, 2026Villanova University is deepening its ties to the Vatican, thanks to its famous alumnus, Pope Leo
October 27, 2026As Pope Leo prepares to return to South America next week, many Peruvians remember him as the priest who helped feed hungry families, delivered aid after
October 27, 2026Pope Leo XIV will proceed with his planned trip to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru from November 6 to 17
October 26, 2026The Archdiocese of New York and attorneys for about 1,300 parishioners who say they were sexually abused by clergy have agreed to an $800 million settlement of their legal claims
October 24, 2026Pope Leo XIV won't need further treatment after doctors confirmed his lung cancer had not spread
October 21, 2026Pope Leo returned to St.
October 21, 2026Pope Leo pledged on Sunday to slowly resume his usual activities as the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics as he greeted crowds in St.
October 18, 2026Pope Leo leads Sunday prayers in first major public appearance since lung cancer surgery
October 18, 2026Pope Leo discharged from hospital after lung cancer surgery
October 17, 2026Pope Leo XIV has brought an American style of governing to the Vatican, including in the way it handles health crises
October 17, 2026There are now more Catholics in Africa than in Europe, the Vatican said on Friday, releasing the latest Catholic Church statistics compiled by its news agency Fides.
October 16, 2026Pope Leo XIV is working from the hospital after doctors reported his lung has recovered well from surgery
October 15, 2026Catholics in Chicago and worldwide are rallying behind Pope Leo XIV after his lung cancer diagnosis
October 15, 2026The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Mass in a special room set up for him at the hospital after cancer surgery
October 14, 2026Pope Leo's recovery from surgery is progressing as expected and he has begun walking in his hospital room and eating normally, the Vatican said on
October 14, 2026The Vatican has detailed laws, rituals and norms to transfer papal power if a pope dies or resigns
October 13, 2026The archbishop who oversees Catholic pastoral services for the U.S. military is condemning the proposed livestream of Nidal Hasan's firing squad execution
October 13, 2026The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to the hospital Tuesday in the late morning
October 12, 2026Pope Leo announces he will undergo surgery to remove lung nodule
October 11, 2026Pope Leo XIV has declared capital punishment "inadmissible.”
October 10, 2026Pope Leo approved Filipino Cardinal Luis Tagle's election as the dean of the Catholic Church's college of cardinals, the Vatican said on Friday, in
October 09, 2026Pope Leo urged an assembly of some 150 bishops from around the world to find "renewed ways" of helping modern families at the start of a week-long
October 07, 2026Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholic leaders to courageously accompany families in their weaknesses and failures
October 07, 2026The Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a religious institution has a right to build a shrine to the Virgin Mary on residential property next to its Kentucky church
October 02, 2026More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over decades, according to an investigative report
September 30, 2026Pope Leo on Monday urged Russia and Ukraine to sit down and discuss how to end their four-year war, hours after he had urged European leaders seeking to
September 29, 2026A New Jersey man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for taking homemade explosive devices to a Washington, D.C., church that was preparing for an annual Mass celebrating the start of the Supreme Court’s term
September 28, 2026Pope Leo XIV is urging Europe to draw from its Christian roots and traditions of dialogue to confront the thirst for domination driving today's wars
September 28, 2026What have we learned about Pope Leo during his visit to France
September 28, 2026French survivors of clergy sexual abuse have met with Pope Leo XIV
September 27, 2026Pope Leo reaffirmed his commitment to ending abuse by priests in the Catholic Church during a meeting in Lourdes with seven survivors of abuse by French clergy,
September 28, 2026Pope Leo reaffirmed his commitment to ending abuse of children by Catholic priests in a meeting with French abuse survivors on
September 27, 2026Crowds stretched the length of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday, as Pope Leo urged Catholics to find happiness in
September 26, 2026Pope Leo XIV has warned that a “paradise of machines” could undermine humanity
September 25, 2026Pope Leo said on Friday that the United Nations and other multilateral groups were in crisis, warning in a speech at the Paris
September 25, 2026Pope Leo firmly set out the Catholic Church's opposition to assisted dying initiatives in a speech in France on Friday, two months after the country created a
September 25, 2026Pope Leo XIV plans to meet with seven survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his visit to France
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