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Pope urges educators to help young people encounter Christ amid ‘merciless’ treatment by culture
A gathering organized by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education brought together 1,200 participants from 60 countries. Pope Leo XIV on Thursday encouraged those involved in Catholic school and university pastoral ministry to respond to a “merciless” culture, which constantly compares and…
New Vatican document considers the difficulties of passing on the faith today
The document is presented as a set of “considerations,” drawing on the input and contributions of several national bishops’ conferences. The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on Thursday published the document “Venite ad Me: Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an…
Pope invites young Catholics to Seoul as registration opens for World Youth Day 2027
The Vatican released the pontiff’s message on the feast of St. John Paul II, who established World Youth Day in 1985. With less than a year to go until World Youth Day (WYD) in Seoul, South Korea, Pope Leo XIV invited young Catholics worldwide to register and to view the event as a pilgrimage…
Pope Leo XIV: Following St. John Paul II, the Church’s dialogue with Jews must continue
The pontiff met with a delegation of the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican on Thursday. Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Church’s stance against antisemitism and all forms of religious discrimination, recalling the work of St. John Paul II in promoting dialogue between Catholics and Jews. The…
Pope Leo XIV needs no further treatment after lung cancer surgery, Vatican says
Final histological examinations and molecular biology tests on tissue removed during the Holy Fatherʼs surgery were completed. VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Press Office issued an important statement Wednesday evening on Pope Leo XIVʼs recovery following his Oct. 13 surgery, confirming that no further…
Chaldean Catholics from around the world gather with patriarch at the Vatican
Chaldean Catholics from around the world gathered with their patriarch at the Vatican Faith, Reunion and the Hope of Return: Chaldean Catholics Gather at the Vatican Hundreds of Chaldean Catholics from Iraq and diaspora communities around the world gathered at the Vatican last week, joining…
Pope Leo XIV: The world is poorer without saints
The pontiff met with participants of the “Holiness in History” conference at the Vatican on Wednesday. Pope Leo XIV, in his first private audience since undergoing surgery on Oct. 13, said the history of the world is inseparable from the history of the saints. “The history of the world without…
Pope Leo affirms the ‘unbreakable oneness’ of marriage at first general audience post-surgery
The pope stressed that the commitment to protect families is “more urgent than ever before.” VATICAN CITY — The mutual self-gift of husband and wife underlies the requirement for “total fidelity” and the “unbreakable oneness” of marriage, Pope Leo XIV said at the general audience on Wednesday. “The…
Will Pope Leo Reshape His Pontificate?
ANALYSIS: Could his cancer diagnosis change how Pope Leo governs the Vatican going forward? Until the announcement of his hospitalization and lung surgery that led to the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma last week, the world took for granted that Leo XIV’s would be a broad-ranging pontificate spanning…
Pope Leo XIV tasks theologians with clarifying meaning of Church tradition
The pope has appointed 24 new members to the International Theological Commission, which will examine the nature of tradition and how the Catholic faith is transmitted across cultures. Pope Leo XIV on Monday renewed much of the International Theological Commission (ITC), appointing 24 new members…
New Vatican official says men and women are ‘in this together as witnesses to God’
In an interview with EWTN News, Sister Mary Teresa Barron, OLA, spoke about her new role supporting the Church’s missionary work. Sister Mary Barron, a religious sister from Ireland, first landed in Tanzania as a missionary three decades ago. That experience had a huge impact on her and the roles…
Young members of the Order of Malta help the homeless in St. Peter’s Square
Every Tuesday, volunteers gather near St. Peter’s Square to provide food to the homeless. In a society of increased indifference, a group of young people associated with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta is living out concretely Pope Leo XIV’s call to “not let our guard down when it comes to…
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