Pope Francis’ visit to Singapore on Wednesday, where three-quarters of the population is ethnically Chinese and Mandarin is an official language, will give him yet another opportunity to reach out to ...

This is the text from Pope Leo XIV's general audience given Jan. 21, 2026, in the Paul VI Hall. Dear brothers and sisters, ...

The president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) has described the first official audience between Pope Leo XIV and the leadership of the Church in Africa as a ...

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday received a pair of lambs to be blessed for the feast day of the Roman virgin and martyr St. Agnes — ...

The announcement appeared last week in the calendar of papal liturgies published by the Prefecture of the Pontifical ...

ROME (AP) — Three U.S. Catholic cardinals urged the Trump administration on Monday to use a moral compass in pursuing its ...

Citing recent events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland, three cardinals said their statement was inspired by Pope Leo.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a “revolution of conscience,” who sought “the conversion of hearts,” Washington ...

Ordained as a Baptist minister, the Civil Rights leader was well-versed in the church fathers, quoting St. Augustine in his ...

In his opening address on the afternoon of Jan. 7 to some 170 members of the College of Cardinals who attended the consistory, Pope Leo proposed four topics for their discussion: evangelization, how ...

(OSV News) — This is the text of Pope Leo XIV’s homily Jan. 8, 2026, at the morning Mass of the Extraordinary Consistory with the College of Cardinals, in St. Peter’s Basilica. “Beloved, let us love ...

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