Since his election in May as the first American pope, Leo XIV has become a political and temperamental counterweight to an ...

“If eternal life consists in communion with God, it is fitting to prepare ourselves already for it in our earthly life, as Joseph Ratzinger did throughout his entire existence, with intensity.” On ...

When Pope Benedict XVI died, his longtime secretary published a memoir that revealed Benedict’s private concerns about Pope Francis’s leadership — views he had never shared publicly. The book detailed ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)–Visiting two countries over six days on his first foreign papal trip, Pope Leo XIV preached unity, dialogue and respect for differences as the only paths to peace. Spending time ...

Criticisms of liberalism periodically arise from Catholic circles, sometimes making categorical statements about it. Of course, I find it perfectly respectable for a Catholic to criticize an ideology, ...

Pope Leo XIV prays in front of the tomb of Saint Charbel Makhlouf at the Monastery of Saint Maroun, in Annaya, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (Credit: Domenico Stinellis/Pool via AP.) Listen BEIRUT – ...

Early on Sunday, we learned the Vatican’s chartered Airbus 320, which had ferried Pope Leo XIV, his entourage and 80 journalists to Turkey on Thanksgiving Day, was safe for travel after its software ...

(CNN) — The black-clad priest yanked on the white rope. At once the bells began to clang. The evening mass was beginning at the Monastery of Mar Maroun, or Saint Maroun, in the town of Annaya, high in ...

Pope Leo XIV touched down in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Sunday with the hope of being a “messenger of peace” as he began a three-day visit to the nation at the heart of a Middle East battered by ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s iconic Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn’t stop to pray, as he focused more on bolstering ties with Orthodox patriarchs and promoting courageous ...

Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s iconic Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn't stop to pray, as he focused more on bolstering ties with Orthodox patriarchs and promoting courageous steps for Eastern and ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s iconic Blue Mosque on Saturday but didn’t stop to pray, as he focused more on bolstering ties with Orthodox patriarchs and promoting courageous steps ...