Pope Leo XIV has used a visit to San Marino and a major Catholic gathering in the nearby Italian city of Rimini to urge Catholics to reject division, conflict and social polarization, calling instead for dialogue, mercy and friendship across political and cultural differences
August 22, 2026
Pope Leo says his ancestors were both ‘slaves and slave owners’
July 30, 2026
First American pope marks July 4 on migrant island with plea for ‘compassion and generosity’
July 04, 2026
The traditionalist Catholics who defied Pope Leo XIV and caused a schism are defending their actions
July 03, 2026
The Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent
July 02, 2026
The Vatican said on Thursday that priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope
July 02, 2026
Pope’s July 4 visit to migrant hotspot sends a veiled message to US leaders
July 02, 2026
Breakaway Catholic group excommunicated after defying warnings from Pope Leo
July 02, 2026
Pope Leo said during his inaugural Mass last year that he would seek to unify the Catholic Church after years of fraught divisions and vowed he would
July 02, 2026
The Vatican said on Thursday that priests and lay Catholics who are part of the Society of St.
July 02, 2026
The Vatican has responded aggressively to the ultratraditionalist Society of St. Pius X after it defied Pope Leo XIV and consecrated four bishops without his consent
July 01, 2026
Four new bishops from a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass were ordained in southwestern Switzerland on Wednesday, in defiance of an appeal
July 02, 2026
A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has directly defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent
July 01, 2026
Pope Leo faces first major crisis of papacy from rebel Catholic group
June 30, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has received a special gift from former Chicago White Sox catcher A
June 26, 2026
A collection of early public writings by the future Pope Leo XIV will be published in English this fall
June 24, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is warning human traffickers that they will face God’s wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants
June 12, 2026
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June 12, 2026
Pope Leo visited Barcelona's Sagrada Familia on Wednesday and inaugurated the newest of its soaring geometric spires that makes the
June 10, 2026
Pope Leo XIV is presiding over a youth rally in Barcelona
June 10, 2026
Pope Leo spoke in Catalan, a language key to the region's identity, as he arrived in Barcelona on Tuesday for the second stop of a week-long tour of
June 09, 2026
Pope Leo's visit to Spain's Canary Islands, which have struggled to absorb a surge in irregular migration over the past decade,
June 09, 2026
Pope Leo XIV will bridge 1,000 years of church history Wednesday when he visits a medieval monastery on a mountaintop that local Catholics consider sacred and then celebrates Mass at Barcelona’s famous Sagrada Familia Basilica
June 09, 2026
The Vatican says that Pope Leo XIV has met with six survivors of clergy sexual abuse in Madrid and vowed to consider their suggestions for how the Catholic Church can improve its response to the crisis
June 08, 2026
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