Pope Leo XIV marked the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a video call to U.S. astronaut Buzz Aldrin and a visit to the Vatican Observatory, located on the papal estate of Castel Gandolfo, where he has been staying for two weeks.

Pope Leo XIV received a phone call Friday from Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, following yesterday’s Israeli army attack on Holy Family Church in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV once again expressed his closeness to the people of Ukraine by sending packages of food destined to families who have suffered from the Russian army’s recent onslaught of attacks.

Pope Leo XIV encouraged people on Sunday to embrace the summer season as a time to deepen their relationship with God through silence, reflection, and time spent with others.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday prayed by name for the victims of a deadly Israeli strike on the only Catholic parish in Gaza, decrying the “barbarism of the war” as he renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire.

From July 10 to 11, the city of Rome hosted the fourth annual Ukraine Recovery Conference, a major international summit bringing together more than 100 delegations and over 2,000 representatives from governments, civil society, and business.

On July 3, Taiwan’s newly appointed ambassador to the Holy See, Anthony Ho, presented his diplomatic credentials to Pope Leo XIV in the Apostolic Palace.

Pope Leo XIV presided over the first Mass dedicated to the care of creation at Castel Gandolfo, in the newly established Borgo Laudato Si’.

The last Pope who met crowds of the faithful in Castel Gandolfo at the Sunday Angelus prayer was Benedict XVI in September 2012, 13 years ago.

Pope Leo XIV urges ceasefire after Gaza church bombing. US ecumenical pilgrimage fosters unity. Vatican backs debt relief. Charity Match aids war victims. Rome readies for Jubilee with 1M youth and papal Mass

Father Yusuf Asad, 49, who has been the assistant parochial vicar at Holy Family Church in Gaza for six years, had just celebrated morning Mass when a loud bang sounded. At around 10:20 a.m. local time, a projectile hit the building.

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met with a U.S. ecumenical group, led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, encouraging them to “return to the roots of our faith” in their pilgrimage to Italy and Turkey.   

Following a strike against the Holy Family Church, the only Catholic Church in Gaza, which left at least two dead on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV issued an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire.

The permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, participated in this week’s ‘High-Level Political Forum’ with two speeches at UN headquarters in New York.

When alpine climber Edoardo Ricci clips into a harness or prepares for a steep ascent in the Alps, he says a silent prayer to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged encounter and unity in a message to the players and spectators of a soccer game to support sick and injured children from war zones.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on July 15 in the chapel at the Carabinieri station in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, where he is on vacation. The Carabinieri are the national gendarmerie of Italy, a form of military police.

Pope Leo XIV made his first “getaway” from Castel Gandolfo to visit the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of the Poor Clares of Albano, located within the Papal Villas.

n Pope Leo’s relative youth, the possibilities for travel abound.

The post of prefect of the Papal Household has been vacant since the Vatican’s brief announcement in June 2023 that Archbishop Georg Gänswein’s term had ended the previous February.

With less than a month to go before the Jubilee of Youth begins, the pope’s diocese is making final preparations to welcome tens of thousands of young people from around the world who will participate in this event of great spiritual significance.

The village of Dolton purchased Pope Leo XIV’s boyhood home for $375,000 on Tuesday, July 8, after the village board unanimously approved its purchase at a special meeting the week before.

In Rome’s Jubilee Year of Hope, a Catholic-Anglican choir sings in honor of the Sacred Heart at the Jesuits’ mother church — celebrating unity, tradition, and beauty in worship.

World Youth Day began with a Cross and a dream. This global Catholic tradition keeps growing, uniting young hearts in faith, hope, and mission.