The Vatican has announced a packed early-2026 travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV, with trips to Monaco, Spain, and four African countries
February 25, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday
February 18, 2026
The Vatican has warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group that it risked renewed schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent
February 12, 2026
Vice President JD Vance met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Milan on Friday, part of his trip to the Olympics
February 06, 2026
Three U.S. Catholic cardinals have urged the Trump administration to use a moral compass in foreign policy
January 19, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican
January 12, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has baptized 20 babies in the Sistine Chapel, continuing an annual tradition marking the end of the Christmas holiday at the Vatican
January 11, 2026
Pope Leo says ‘war is back in vogue’ in major address to global envoys
January 09, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide
January 09, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has closed out 2025 with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people young and old
December 31, 2025
Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day message, has urged the faithful to shed indifference toward those who are suffering
December 25, 2025
In first Christmas message, Pope Leo decries Palestinians in Gaza being forced to shelter in tents from ‘rain, wind and cold’
December 25, 2025
Pope Leo XIV says he's “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois has approved medically assisted suicide
December 23, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for meetings to help him govern the church, marking the unofficial start of his pontificate
December 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida
December 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has made another high-profile appointment that signals a generational shift in the English-speaking Catholic hierarchy
December 19, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has made a significant U.S. appointment by naming Bishop Ronald Hicks as the next archbishop of New York
December 18, 2025
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian era
December 12, 2025
Time magazine is set to name its person of the year for 2025
December 11, 2025
A selection of items returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History after First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders for years called for the repatriation of Indigenous artifacts
December 09, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis’ more problematic financial moves
December 05, 2025
Pope Leo XIV's first full-length U.S. book is set to release next winter
December 04, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying there as he focused on strengthening ties with Orthodox patriarchs
November 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, emphasizing Christian unity during his trip to Turkey
November 29, 2025
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