Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem – the top Catholic authority in the Holy Land – issued a statement on Thursday celebrating the news that the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas had agreed to accept an agreement to end its war with Israel brokered by President Donald Trump.
Pope Leo XIV received a copy of “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” an extensive report detailing thousands of acts of Christian persecution.
The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV will make visits to Turkey and Lebanon beginning in late November, his first international travel as the head of the Catholic Church.
Members of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome reportedly defaced a statue honouring the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti that described him as a “fascist”.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) decided against receiving a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his work on immigration from Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich after facing harsh opposition from several Catholic bishops and pro-life organizations for his longstanding support of abortion.
Pope Leo XIV said he considered President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza a “realistic proposal” and that Hamas should accept it.
Actor and environmental activist Arnold Schwarzenegger flew in to join Pope Leo XIV in Rome on Tuesday to address a climate conference and deliver a message for all the Catholics in the world that the time has come to “terminate climate change.”
A 12-year-old girl who had a bullet lodged in her brain during the horrific shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic Church this past August has seen a “miraculous” recovery.
Pope Leo XIV marked his 70th birthday on Sunday by thanking God, his parents and all those who prayed for him.
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 met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, just days before a planned Holy Year pilgrimage of LGBTQ+ Catholics to the Vatican in a sign of continued welcome in this new pontificate.
Leftist actress Rosie O’Donnell admitted that she had “messed up,” after she falsely claimed that transgender-identifying shooter, who opened fire during a Catholic school mass, “was a Republican MAGA person.”
First Lady Melania Trump is calling for “preemptive intervention” after the tragic shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Wednesday.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) claimed there is no reason people “should be able to buy a gun one month and then buy a gun the next month and then the next month after that.”
FOX News’ Trey Gowdy reacted Wednesday to the Minneapolis Catholic School shooting by suggesting it is time to choose between “freedom” and “protecting children.”
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison told the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) summer meeting in Minneapolis on Monday that his office would continue legal challenges against President Donald Trump, vowing not to “scapegoat” transgender Americans just two days before a transgender-identifying shooter opened fire at a Catholic school in the city.
The transgender gunman who opened fire during a Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic School had a YouTube channel that contained his manifesto and vile anti-Trump messages written on guns.
FBI director Kash Patel used a post on X to make clear the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting will be investigated as a “hate crime targeting Catholics.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed gun control before facts in the Minneapolis Catholic School shooting were known.
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.
Christianity is experiencing a revival among young people in Britain, with the number of 18-24 year olds believing in God increasing by nearly 200 per cent since 2021.
U.S. Catholic Bishops are citing Nazis, slave catchers, and replacement babies as they try to slam President Donald Trump’s popular immigration policies.
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful that they are “the sign that a different world is possible” where conflicts can be resolved with dialogue, not weapons.
An estimated one million young Catholics from around the world greeted Pope Leo XIV like a rock star Saturday at an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, after the head of the Catholic Church made a dramatic entrance by helicopter.
Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics poured into a vast field on Rome’s outskirts Saturday for the weekend highlight of the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year.
The death toll has risen to at least 34 people in a savage attack by Islamic State-backed rebels on a Catholic church in the eastern Congo on Sunday, according to a local leader.
Elon Musk’s social media platform X won in a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling over a gag order that prevented the company from informing the public when it receives government search warrants and subpoenas, the company said Tuesday.
Pope Leo XIV renewed his call on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, asking the international community to respect international laws and the obligation to protect civilians.
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.
A Liberal Democrat MP has reacted with rage after his local Catholic priest publicly refused to offer him communion over his support of legislation to legalise “assisted dying” in Britain.
Pope Leo XIV told Catholic believers during a weekly event on Wednesday that he welcomed the news of a ceasefire between Israel and Iran with “hope,” advising the nations to abandon plans for “revenge” and embrace a path to long-term peace.
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 teenager who died of leukemia in 2006 will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint on September 7, Pope Leo XIV announced Friday.
American Catholics are feeling excited about their newly-elected religious leader Pope Leo XIV just a month after he was elevated to the position, a poll released Sunday reveals.
Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, of the diocese of Makurdi in Nigeria, said in a Fox News interview published on Tuesday that his home village of Aondona was attacked by “terrorist jihadis” and over 20 of its residents were murdered after he testified at a U.S. congressional hearing on Christian persecution.
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.
Apple TV’s original series “Your Friends & Neighbors” mocked the Catholic faith in a recent episode that featured the show’s star, actor Jon Hamm, breaking into a church to have sex and use the Eucharist as a snack.
Cuba’s figurehead president Miguel Díaz-Canel extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV on Thursday to visit the island.
