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The Vatican’s anti-abuse body is exploring ways to better protect religious women who have suffered abuse. | Credit: Canva

Vatican commission seeks to address legal loophole facing women religious suffering abuse

Efforts to address the abuse crisis in the Church have focused on minors and vulnerable adults, leaving unaddressed
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Why does the Vatican recognize Orthodox marriages but not those of the SSPX?

The answer has to do with profoundly different juridical and ecclesial realities. The Holy Seeʼs declaration this month
Electric vehicles donated by Fiat to the Vatican. | Credit: Governorate of Vatican City State

Fiat donates 30 electric vehicles to Vatican in sustainability push

The vehicles will support the daily work of governorate employees as Vatican City State moves toward its 2030
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on July 5, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV to Iraqi Christians: Be Christ’s light in challenging times

The Vatican published a video message from the pontiff on July 8 for the Ankawa Youth Meeting. Pope
Father Pier Luigi Stolfi, moderator of the curia for the Diocese of Rome. Pope Leo XIV appointed Stolfi on July 7, 2026, amid reform of the central organization of the diocese. | Credit: Cristian Gennari

Pope Leo XIV continues reform of Diocese of Rome with addition of leadership position

The appointment continues Leo’s reform of the Diocese of Rome, of which he is bishop, rolling back changes
Pope Leo XIV greets crowds under a glaring sun during the Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on May 27, 2026. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News

Pope Leo XIV to share lunch with 200 people in need at Castel Gandolfo

The gathering will take place during the pope’s July stay at the papal villa and will include prayer,
A hard copy of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, is held by an attendee at the document’s presentation on May 26, 2026, in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News

Pope Leo XIV tells UN: Confront AI misuse to promote human dignity

The pontiff sent a letter on July 8 to be read at the AI for Good Global Summit
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The Quiet Potential of the Daily ‘Examen’

COMMENTARY: The three-to-five-minute exercise can be life-changing. There is something both liberating and disorienting about summer. The school
The EWTN Summer Academy 2026 participants in Rome on July 1, 2026. | Credit: Lemmy Ogbonnaya Ijioma/EWTN Summer Academy

Training journalists to be peacemakers: EWTN Summer Academy concludes in Rome

EWTN hosted 43 young media professionals from around the world for an intensive journalistic training program June 22
Pope Leo XIV with U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch and his family at the ambassador’s residence in Rome on July 4, 2026. | Credit: U.S. Embassy to the Holy See

U.S. ambassador describes July 4 dinner with Pope Leo XIV

Speaking with Italian media, Brian Burch said the informal evening showed a pontiff who is both personally at
The cover of Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ postsynodal apostolic exhortation on the family, in English, Italian, and Spanish. It was published and presented to the public on April 8, 2016. | Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News.

Vatican October meeting to focus on divorce, other family issues

Pope Leo XIV has called the presidents of bishops’ conferences to Rome Oct. 7–14 for a weeklong gathering
Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during his visit to the Marian shrine of Mama Muxima in Kimbaxe, Angola, on April 19, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media

This is Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of July

Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of July is for respect for human life in all
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on July 5, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV says Christ is hope amid the scourge of war

The pontiff prayed the Angelus in St. Peter’s Square before traveling to Castel Gandolfo for three weeks of
Pope Leo XIV with U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch and his family at the ambassador's residence on July 4, 2026. | Credit: U.S. Embassy to the Holy See

Pope Leo XIV dines with U.S. ambassador on Independence Day

The pope visited the private residence of U.S. Ambassador Brian Burch after returning from Lampedusa. VATICAN CITY —
Society of St. Pius X clergy process during the consecration ceremony of four new bishops of the society on July 1, 2026, in Ecône, Switzerland. | Credit: Society of St. Pius X

SSPX rejects Vatican’s excommunication, calls it ‘objectively’ unjust and invalid

In a letter addressed to Pope Leo XIV, released on July 3, Father Davide Pagliarani, superior general of
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EWTN News explains: As a Catholic, can you attend an SSPX Mass?

The traditionalist group has been declared in schism with the Catholic Church after an illicit “ordination” of bishops.
Vatican flag. | Credit: Bohumil Petrik/EWTN News

Peter’s Pence collected more than $65.8 million for the pope’s mission in 2025

Almost $50 million was used to support the activities of the Holy See in the service of the
Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul on June 29, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Leo XIV congratulates the U.S. on its 250th anniversary

The pontiffʼs letter stressed religious freedom, the right to life, and the contributions of Catholics and immigrants to

Pope Leo XIV: Migrants lost at sea are victims of choices made and unmade

Celebrating Mass on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, Pope Leo XIV urged Europe to respond to migration with
Statue of St. Peter in the Vatican. Image designed in Canva by Jacob Stein.

The SSPX Again Says No to the Catholic Church

COMMENTARY: The Society’s answers will always be No, even when the Church first offers Yes. Numerous accounts of
St. John Paul II and a young Robert Francis Prevost, wearing the black habit of the Augustinians. | Credit: Photo courtesy of the Augustinian Midwest Province (USA) Our Mother of Good Counsel

Vatican releases biopic on Pope Leo XIV’s early years in Rome

The Dicastery for Communication released a documentary on July 1 about the then-Robert Prevost’s two decades in the
Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu gives the keynote address at the closing dinner for the EWTN Summer Academy in Rome on July 1, 2026. | Credit: Lemmy Ogbonnaya Ijioma/EWTN Summer Academy

Vatican official to Catholic journalists: Be ‘disciples before influencers’

Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu reflected on the importance of communicating the truth in a digital age of trends. Editor’s
A cemetery on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where on July 4, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will visit the graves of migrants and refugees who died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Crosses made from the wood of shipwrecked boats mark the graves of children. | Credit: Tiziana Fabi via Getty Images

Pope Leo XIV to spend July 4 with migrants on Italian island of Lampedusa

Only about 80 miles from Tunisia, Lampedusa is a main gateway for Africans escaping poverty and violence to
Portrait of St. Pius X. Imaged designed in Canva by Jacob Stein.

What is the SSPX? A look at the traditionalist Catholic group in schism with the Church

The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is a traditionalist group that is not in full communion with

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