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May 14, 2026
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday denounced how investments in artificial intelligence and high-tech weaponry were leading the world into a “spiral of annihilation,” as he called...
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May 13, 2026
The Vatican has issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics. It says their planned consecrations of bishops without papal consent will incur automatic...
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May 8, 2026
In his first year as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV seems driven not by the dramatic gesture or tensions that often fueled the papacy of his predecessor, but by a calm, persistent zeal to...
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Apr 27, 2026
Pope Leo XIV prayed Monday in the Vatican with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, and vowed to keep working to overcome differences “no matter how intractable...
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Apr 17, 2026
Pope Leo XIV urged Cameroon’s young people on Friday to resist the temptation of corruption and instead work to serve the common good as he celebrated a Mass before...
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Apr 14, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has walked in the footsteps of his spiritual father St. Augustine. He is making a pilgrimage to the archaeological ruins in Algeria where the fifth-century titan of...
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Apr 13, 2026
U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV pushed back Monday on President Donald Trump’s broadside against him over the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, telling reporters that the...
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Apr 8, 2026
Pope Leo XIV says that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization is “truly unacceptable” and that any attacks on civilian infrastructure violate...
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Mar 24, 2026
Pope Leo XIV put the Rev. Edward Joseph Flanagan a step closer to possible sainthood Monday as he proclaimed the “heroic virtues” of the founder of...
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Mar 19, 2026
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday summoned Catholic bishops to Rome for a special meeting on ministering to families that takes as its starting point Leo’s strong endorsement of one...
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Feb 25, 2026
The Vatican on Wednesday announced a busy and lengthy foreign travel schedule for Pope Leo XIV in the first half of 2026, confirming the pontiff will visit Monaco, Spain...
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Feb 19, 2026
Pope Leo XIV will visit ground zero of Europe’s migration drama, the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, in May and also minister to Italians poisoned by years of toxic dumping...
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Feb 17, 2026
Fancy a pizza with a view?
The Vatican is marking the 400th anniversary of the consecration of St. Peter’s Basilica with a host of visitor-friendly initiatives,...
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Feb 5, 2026
Call it divine intervention, or maybe just a hasty fix-it job to put an end to days of speculation and scandal. But the end result is that the Angel Meloni is no more.
A...
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Feb 3, 2026
The appeals phase of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” resumed Tuesday after a pair of setbacks for the pope’s prosecutors that could have big...
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Jan 9, 2026
Spain’s Catholic bishops have agreed to let the Spanish government’s ombudsman have the final say in the church’s compensation of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members who...
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Jan 8, 2026
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world’s cardinals to Rome and asking them to advise him on key priorities for the next two...
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Jan 7, 2026
A day after closing out the 2025 Holy Year, Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world’s cardinals to Rome and indicating some...
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Jan 6, 2026
Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday closed out the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year by denouncing today’s consumerist and anti-foreigner sentiment, capping a Jubilee that saw...
