You are here
Feed aggregator
Lord’s Day Reflection: My Lord and my God
As the Church celebrates the Second Sunday of Easter, or Divine Mercy Sunday, Fr. Edmund Power reflects on the theme: “My Lord and my God.”
Bishops of Equatorial Guinea: Pope Leo's visit is 'a hug from God'
The bishops of Equatorial Guinea invite everyone to welcome Pope Leo's journey to the country as a “time of grace” that fosters conversion, unity, and hope. They call for strengthening spiritual life in the face of current challenges.
Pope Leo meets French President Macron
The first meeting between the Pope and the French President took place at the Vatican Apostolic Palace. Talks at the Secretariat of State included the hope of restoring peaceful coexistence through dialogue and negotiation around the world.
Where the Menoreh Hills whisper peace: Tolerance in quiet grace
The Paschal message of peace and fraternity is lived spiritually and concretely, as highlighted by the collaboration and friendship between Muslims and Christians in a remote Indonesian village during the Easter Triduum.
Prayer Vigil for Peace to use light from Lamp of Peace from Assisi
Pope Leo XIV's Prayer Vigil for Peace on Saturday, April 11, will be guided by meditations from early Church Fathers, including St. Augustine of Hippo, and will see faithful from different continents light candles with the fire from the Lamp of Peace from Assisi.
Pope’s visit to Africa to be visible live on Vatican News widget
Pope Leo XIV’s Apostolic to four African nations will be visible for the first time live on the Vatican News widget, which offers Catholic websites up-to-the-minute access to news about the Pope.
Cardinal Hollerich: Big steps are being taking regarding role of women in the Church
The publication of the Synod Study Group report on women’s participation, according to Cardinal Hollerich, marks a “big step” toward greater inclusion in the Church. He stresses, however, that any possible development in women’s access to ordained ministry requires broad ecclesial consensus to preserve unity.
Pope: Social security systems must foster economic justice and right to work
Pope Leo XIV meets with a delegation from the Italian National Institute for Social Security, and urges national welfare systems to promote social responsibility and economic development.
Pope to Chaldean Church: Never be on side of those who wield weapons
Meeting with members of the Chaldean Church during their Synod to elect a new Patriarch, Pope Leo XIV challenges the Chaldean Catholic Church to stay true to their long and storied mission of peace, especially “in a world marked by absurd and inhumane violence, which, in these times, is driven by greed and hatred.”
DR Congo: Comboni Missionary Sisters make common cause with most vulnerable
The Sisters of the Comboni Missionaries Postulancy share their lives with Kisangani's street children, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, offering their services at the Saint Laurent Centre, which is not merely a refuge, but a chance for a better future.
Welcome to the 'home' for American priests in Rome
Vatican News takes an inside look at 'Casa Santa Maria' of the Pontifical North American College, the home away from home for American priests to live and pray together during their studies in Rome, that leaves them 'tremendously enriched' and ready for their mission back home, and contributes to their always falling more in love with the faith and the Lord.
Congregation of Holy Cross lives missionary revival through new mission
Heading Pope Francis’ call to go to the peripheries, the Holy Family Mission in Papua New Guinea has revived the missionary charism of the Congregation of Holy Cross to cross borders in hope.
Pope Leo XIV: A pilgrim in Africa
The Director of the Holy See Press Office presents Pope Leo’s upcoming Apostolic Journey to Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea: an itinerary marked by the richness and diversity of histories, cultures and traditions.
UNICEF in Iran: Despite ceasefire, violence will have lasting effects on children
As the U.S.-Israeli ceasefire appears to hold in Iran, UNICEF outlines the ongoing danger and impact this war has and will continue to have on children as they “bear the brunt of the conflict.”
‘Even just one of these children’ announced as title of World Migrants Day
Pope Leo XIV releases the theme for the 2026 World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which focuses on the need for pastoral care for minors on the move.
Apostolic Nuncio: Lebanon deserves peace; war is death
Archbishop Paolo Borgia, the Apostolic Nuncio to Lebanon, laments the death and destruction caused by Israeli attacks on the country, and calls for dialogue to promote peace, in an interview with Vatican News.
Pope to Olympic athletes: Sport must keep human person at its center
Pope Leo XIV meets with a delegation of Italian Olympic and Paralympic athletes who competed at the Milan-Cortina Games, and upholds the value of sport as a place of encounter and self-mastery.
Catholic Bishops tell Nigerians: The resurrection offers us a new beginning. Hold on to hope!
Archbishop Matthew Man-oso Ndagoso, speaking on behalf of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, has told Nigerians not to lose hope, regardless of the many challenges they face. He added that a new dawn is coming.
Last Christian village on Israeli border: 'We want a Lebanon that lives in peace'
Fr. Toni Elias, a Lebanese Maronite parish priest in Rmeich - the last village in the south of the country on the border with Israel. Despite the news that the ceasefire does not extend to Lebanon, he says, “We do not give up—on the contrary, we trust in the Lord. This is what truly makes us a resilient people in the midst of this tide of war and conflict that surrounds us.”
Cardinal Parolin: We need more voices calling for peace
In a recent interview with the Italian quarterly 'Dialoghi,' Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, discusses the fragility of diplomacy, the rise of the logic of the strongest, the importance of the United Nations, and the need to empty nuclear arsenals.
Pages
