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Pope Leo XIV: There’s no template for synodality across all countries

There is no single model for what synodality should look like in all countries and cultures, Pope Leo
Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hope in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 25, 2025. | Credit: Vatican Media.

Pope Leo XIV gives advice for living with hope in a ‘troubled era’

Pope Leo XIV on Saturday said the key to living in a difficult time, when the Church’s teachings
Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke celebrates a Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, at the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN

PHOTOS: Cardinal Burke celebrates Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica

Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated a special Traditional Latin Mass for hundreds of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica on
Pope Leo XIV celebrates a Mass of episcopal consecration at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 26, 2025. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN

Pope Leo XIV: The first lesson for every bishop is humility

Bishops should be humble servants and men of prayer — not possession, Pope Leo XIV said at a
St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. | Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Pope Leo XIV to name St. John Henry Newman a patron saint of Catholic education

Pope Leo XIV will name St. John Henry Newman a patron saint of Catholic education in a document

Pope Leo XIV meets clergy abuse survivors at Vatican

Pope Leo XIV on Monday met with members of an international organization of clergy abuse survivors and advocates

Vatican appoints judges to decide Rupnik sexual abuse case

The Vatican’s doctrine office announced Monday that a panel of five judges has been nominated to decide the

Pope Leo XIV addresses immigration policies in meeting with Chicago labor leaders

Pope Leo XIV addressed immigration policies and respect for vulnerable migrants in a meeting with Cardinal Blase Cupich

Pope Leo XIV commends Catholic Charities USA’s ministry to migrants, refugees

Pope Leo XIV sent a letter this week commending Catholic Charities USA for being “agents of hope” to

Pope Leo XIV, in his first major document, says the poor evangelize us

In the first major document of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV writes that the poor are not only objects

UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV recalls Palestinians killed since Oct. 7 Hamas attack

Pope Leo XIV called Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, an act of terrorism that cannot

Pope Leo thanks Knights of Columbus for generosity to Vatican, service to communities

Pope Leo XIV on Monday met with leaders of the Knights of Columbus, whom he thanked for their

Pope Leo XIV allows outside banks to manage Holy See investments

Pope Leo XIV has permitted the Holy See’s main financial body to use financial institutions outside the Vatican

Swiss Guards, protectors of the pope, don new uniforms

The Swiss Guards, who have protected popes for the last five centuries, now have a new uniform. The

Pope Francis removes Caritas Internationalis leaders, appoints temporary administrator

Pope Francis on Tuesday removed the entire leadership of an international confederation of charities and appointed a temporary

Pope Francis chooses papal ambassador to lead Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Pope Francis on Monday appointed a papal ambassador and expert in Eastern languages and literature to lead the

Pope Francis: What is spiritual consolation? The saints explain

Pope Francis used the example of several Catholic saints to explain the concept of spiritual consolation during his

Pope Francis meets Jewish leaders as they launch initiative to strengthen Catholic-Jewish bonds

Pope Francis met with international Jewish leaders on Tuesday as they launched an initiative to strengthen Catholic-Jewish bonds.

Pope Francis gives a shoutout to 2022 FIFA World Cup

Pope Francis gave a shoutout to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar at the end of his

Pope Francis says this is the difference between theologians and catechists

Pope Francis on Thursday distinguished between how catechists and theologians interact with Church teaching. A theologian, he said,

Pope Francis: God is present ‘in everyday things’

It is good to remember that God is present to us even in the small, everyday events of
Cardinal Robert Sarah | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.

Cardinal Sarah: ‘Religious liberty is under threat in the West, too’

Christians in the West should not take religious liberty and freedom of worship for granted, Cardinal Robert Sarah
Pope Francis gives his weekly Angelus address on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. | Vatican Media

‘Violence kills the future’: Pope Francis condemns Israeli-Palestinian conflict after 2 boys die

Pope Francis has spoken out against violence in the Holy Land after one teenager died in a blast

New cardinal from Ghana with heart problems dies at 63

Cardinal Richard Kuuia Baawobr, bishop of Wa, Ghana, died in Rome on Sunday evening at the age of

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