Pope Leo XIV on Saturday named a veteran Vatican diplomat as his new ambassador to the United States to manage one of the Holy See’s most important bilateral relationships at a crucial time, with ties strained over the Trump administration’s war in Iran and immigration crackdown.
The controversial alleged likeness of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni featured on a recently restored image of an angel in a church in Rome has been scrubbed off pending a decision for its replacement.
The alleged likeness of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni featured on a recently-restored image of an angel in a church in Rome will be removed at the request of the Vatican, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported on Tuesday morning.
The Vatican announced on Monday that Pope Leo XIV held a surprise in-person meeting with Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-socialist Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado shortly before she is expected to meet with President Donald Trump.
Pope Leo XIV on Monday delivered a fierce condemnation of gambling, denouncing the activity as a “scourge” that ruins families and must be combated.
Pope Leo XIV will deliver his first Christmas blessing from St Peter’s Basilica on Thursday, after a year overshadowed by conflict.
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, the Vatican said Saturday, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.
The Vatican reached out to an international pro-life organization to set up a Nativity scene representing babies saved from abortions by pro-life activism this year.
Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras on Wednesday denounced that the socialist regime seized his passport and prevented him from traveling out of the country.
Pope Leo XIV, addressing the leaders of the government of Lebanon on Sunday, urged them to consider “what can be done to ensure that young people in particular do not feel compelled to leave their homeland and emigrate. ” He added rejecting migration is “very valuable” and requires “real courage.”
Pope Leo XIV kicked off the first foreign trip of his papacy Thursday, landing in Turkey to begin a six-day Middle East tour.
Pope Leo XIV addressed bishops at the United Nations’ COP30 climate alarmism summit on Monday, lamenting that not enough political leaders follow the Paris climate agreement and demanding more “political will” to stop alleged climate change.
Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope in history, hosted a star-studded event at the Vatican attended by Hollywood A-listers and filmmakers from around the world where he celebrated the art of cinema for its ability to bring the human condition to visual life on a mass, communal scale.
The Vatican is returning 62 items from its collection of native art and other items to indigenous tribes in Canada as part of its atonement for its role in suppressing “indigenous culture” in the Americas, the Vatican announced Saturday.
Traditionalist Catholics who felt abandoned after Pope Francis restricted the old Latin Mass rejoiced Saturday as they celebrated the traditional liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica with the explicit approval of Pope Leo XIV.
The Archdiocese of Caracas announced the abrupt suspension on Wednesday of a scheduled weekend Mass in celebration of the recent canonization of Saints José Gregorio Hernández and Carmen Rendiles, Venezuela’s first Catholic saints.
King Charles III prayed alongside Pope Leo XIV, an ecumenical service intended to build ties between long estranged churches.
Charles III to travel to Vatican for state visit, where he will pray with Pope Leo , the first time such a thing has happened in centuries.
A dedicated prayer room for Muslims has reportedly been opened inside the 500-year-old Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome after a plea for the separate, carpeted space was made by visiting Islamic scholars.
A man has sparked outrage after climbing onto an altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, dropping his trousers and urinating in front of stunned onlookers.
Pope Leo XIV is being lobbied by Catholic bishops and nuns to endorse more migration flows, regardless of the vast civic and economic damage inflicted on citizens, Western societies, and the migrants’ home countries.
Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname “God´s influencer.”
Pope Leo XIV urged Christians around the world on Wednesday to participate in fasting and prayer for world peace on Friday, the commemoration of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Pope Leo XIV offered a prayer on Sunday for the success of peacemaking efforts. The pope did not reference any conflict in particular, but the peace effort drawing the most attention over the weekend was President Donald Trump’s effort to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Russian and Italian media reported this week that Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, envoy of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday, July 26.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expressed regret Thursday after a shell fragment fired during combat in Gaza hit a Catholic Church, killing 3 and wounding ten.
Pope Leo XIV welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a private audience at the Vatican on Wednesday, offering to host both Ukrainian and Russian diplomats to negotiate an end to Moscow’s prolonged invasion of the country.
The election of the first American gained worldwide attention in early May, not just among the faithful, but also among collectors who sought to capitalize on the fact that the new pontiff is not just an American, but an avid baseball fan.
Pope Leo XIV once again echoed his call for unity within the Catholic Church on Friday after years of political and liturgical division.
Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed the call for priests to remain celibate while commanding bishops to take “firm and decisive” action in cases involving sexual abuse in remarks delivered to the Catholic hierarchy on Wednesday.
In the wake of the American strikes on nuclear sites in the Islamist-run nation of Iran, Pope Leo XIV called for a return to diplomacy and prayed for peace to come to the Middle East.
Pope Leo XIV addressed the eruption of active hostilities between Iran and Israel for the first time on Wednesday, urging the world to facilitate peace and reject “scientific weapons of all kinds,” an apparent reference to Iran’s illicit nuclear program.
A record number of people joined the famed pilgrimage from Paris to Chartres this weekend, bolstered by growing support among young people and interest in the Traditional Latin Mass.
Pope Leo XIV criticized the surge of nationalist political movements in the world as he prayed Sunday for reconciliation and dialogue – a message in line with his pledges to make the Catholic Church a symbol of peace.
Cuba’s figurehead president Miguel Díaz-Canel extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV on Thursday to visit the island.
Pope Leo XIV held his first phone conversation with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the Vatican and Kremlin both confirmed a day later, discussing the Church’s humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public remarks about one of the thorniest foreign policy issues facing his new pontificate.
Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV on Monday and gave the Chicago-born pontiff a Bears football jersey inscribed with his title.
During Sunday’s Mass of Inauguration, Pope Leo XIV called for a “united Church” to foster peace throughout the world and for the faithful to “walk towards God and love one another”.
Artificial Intelligence could enrich and enslave us—perhaps one or the other, perhaps both at the same time. So, even non-Catholics should appreciate that Pope Leo XIV is summoning his Church to build a fortress for the free will of faith—the right of each soul to find a path to salvation—in the age of AI.
