Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy for the Holy Year. He has encouraged seminarians to be ...

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions about his handling of abuse and demands from abuse survivors that he ...

In celebration of the 2025 Jubilee of Hope and the 25 th anniversary of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., is hosting an exhibit on the ...

He clearly referred to Pope Leo XIII, who was the architect of modern Catholic Social Teaching. Leo XIII is known as the social justice pope because of encyclical, Rerum Novarum . This “Magna Carta of ...

Despite difficulties and problems families face, Pope Leo said spreading “the gospel of the family” is a mission that can only be sustained by prayer and an encounter with Christ.

He should continue on this path. Indeed, in doing so, he follows the lead of Pope John Paul II who vehemently opposed the American invasion of Iraq, ostensibly justified by the Bush administration’s ...

Editor’s Note: The following is the full text of the message of Pope Leo XIV to the French Bishops’ Conference on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the canonizations of Sts. John Eudes ...

Pope Leo XIV has praised an international bioethics summit in Rome for advancing an “authentically human” approach to science, urging researchers to pursue truth grounded in the dignity of the ...

These words echo the words of Jesus throughout the Gospels and have been used by popes before, especially St. John Paul II, who began his pontificate with the call, "Be not afraid!" Pope Leo reassures ...

EWTN News, Inc. is the world’s largest Catholic news organization, ... Beatified by Pope St. John Paul II in 1999, these 108 martyrs bore witness to Christ under Nazi and Communist persecution.

The pope’s main talk at the audience focused on the Gospel parable of the good Samaritan, a story the pope said offered important lessons for Christians but also was a source of hope. “The lack of ...

If he does visit his hometown, he would become just the second pope to come to Chicago, with Pope John Paul II holding a mass in Chicago’s Grant Park in 1979. This article tagged under: Pope Leo XIV ...