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.
Speaking to a Monday audience gathered for the recitation of the Angelus at St. Peter’s Square in Rome, Italy, Monday, Pope Leo XIV closed his remarks by expressing his concern for the people of Venezuela and the country’s sovereignty.
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 issued messages on Monday to the clergy in anticipation of the Christmas holiday, emphasizing the importance of friendship and community to sustain the work of the Church.
The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Sunday warned of “widespread” fear among immigrant communities in response to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies and emphasized the need to uphold human dignity in immigration enforcement.
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.
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday suggested maintaining economic pressure against Venezuela’s socialist regime as a means to promote change in the country.
Pope Leo XIV departed Lebanon on Tuesday after an emotional day that began with a visit to the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion and Mass attended by over 150,000 people — and concluded with an event in which the Catholic leader heard the testimonies of the nation’s youth, encouraging them to retain hope.
Upwards of 150,000 people came together at Beirut’s waterfront Tuesday morning for mass with Pope Leo XIV.
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 held prayers at the Armenian Apostolic Cathedral in Istanbul on Sunday in a gesture of support for Christian unity and Christian minorities in Turkey.
Breaking with his predecessors, Pope Leo XIV declined to pray at the Blue Mosque of Istanbul on Saturday as he continued his first international tour as the Bishop of Rome.
Pope Leo XIV surprised rave attendees in Košice, Slovakia, earlier this month by blessing the crowd before a performance by a Portuguese Catholic priest, who is also a DJ known for his spiritually-themed electronic dance music.
Pope Leo XIV led a prayer meeting for Catholics in Turkey, highlighting Turkey’s status as a “holy land” critical to early Christianity.
Muslim-majority Turkey is not “a hostile environment” for Christians even as their population has been drastically reduced over the past decades, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople said Friday.
Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to pray for him on Wednesday as he prepared to depart for his first international tour as the Archbishop of Rome, stopping in Turkey to mark the anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and in Lebanon to meet with the Christian community there.
Pope Leo XIV kicked off the first foreign trip of his papacy Thursday, landing in Turkey to begin a six-day Middle East tour.
Nearly a month after President Donald Trump announced that he would return Nigeria to the State Department’s list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom, Pope Leo XIV has emerged as one of the most prominent voices quietly, but consistently, offering support to the cause.
Rap superstar Nicki Minaj called for God’s intervention in the effort to rescue the captured Christian hostages in Nigeria.
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s, the first known time the new pontiff removed a bishop accused of abuse.
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) asked him to work on a peace deal between the factions in Sudan’s long and brutal civil war, and Trump has already begun working on a deal.
Vice President JD Vance told Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle that Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks about how every nation has the right to determine who enters its land is, at its core, the Catholic Church’s position on borders.
Pope Leo XIV politely rebuked the many pro-migration advocates who portray him and the Catholic Church as supporters of mass migration and as opponents of deportations.
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 offered prayers for the persecuted Christians of Nigeria during his public address on Sunday.
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.
A statement by U.S. Catholic Bishops acknowledges that governments have the legal right and moral duty to curb migration for the common good.
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in history, will host a gathering of Hollywood talent at the Vatican as part of his initiative to “deepen dialogue with the World of Cinema.”
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 Vatican news agency Fides, in anticipation of the Catholic “World Mission Sunday” on October 19, published statistics on the world’s Catholic population revealing a boom in the number of faithful in Asia and Africa in particular.
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.
Few world leaders have a busier schedule than Pope Leo XIV. However, if you thought the Supreme Pontiff wasn’t paying attention to the MLB playoffs, you thought wrong.
The small but devout Christian community in Gaza is slowly starting the process of rebuilding after Israel and the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas agreed to a peace deal, brokered by the White House, this week, Father Gabriel Romanelli of Gaza City’s Holy Family Church said on Monday.
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 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.
