About 1,300 people, including 700 children, joined Pope Leo XIV in praying the Rosary at the Grotto of Lourdes in the Vatican Gardens on October 1, asking for peace for children affected by war and violence worldwide.
The Church dedicates this month to Mary, Queen of the Rosary, and this year the Season of Creation runs from September 1 to October 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology.
Christians must first rediscover peace within the Church and among the Churches if they are to contribute to peace in society, said Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.
Pope Leo XIV met seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse in Lourdes, France, on September 27, expressing his closeness to those who continue to suffer from the “wounds of abuse.”
Pope Leo XIV told the Bishops of France that the Catholic Church has a prophetic role in public life and urged them to defend its freedom to evangelize, educate and worship publicly.
Pope Leo XIV prayed for France, peace and those who suffer as he visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes on Saturday, September 26, during his apostolic journey to France.
Pope Leo XIV called on France to defend human dignity, promote peace and protect the common good as he began his four-day apostolic journey to the country on September 25.
Newly beatified Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen saw the Church’s solidarity with the poor and vulnerable as essential to its missionary witness, telling the Second Vatican Council that only a Church “wounded by poverty” could convert a doubting world, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle said at Sheen’s beatification Mass in St. Louis.
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle described Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen as a “porter to the house of God” who saw himself not as the owner of the people he evangelized but as a humble servant entrusted with leading them to Christ.
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Pope Leo XIV’s early writings on St. Augustine and the challenges facing the Church have been released in English, offering readers a collection of homilies, addresses, messages and letters from the years before he became Pope.
Our Lady of Sorrows stands at the foot of a cross the world had already judged a failure. And yet this is the same woman who once sang that the proud would be scattered and the lowly lifted up. The Magnificat and the sorrow are not two different Marys.
Pope Leo XIV has reappointed Filipino catechetical expert Dr. Lysander Rivera to the Vatican’s International Council for Catechesis, giving him another five-year term on the body that advises the Holy See on catechesis and evangelization.
Archbishop Walter Erbì has arrived in Jakarta to begin his mission as Apostolic Nuncio to Indonesia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), taking up a diplomatic and ecclesial role at a significant moment in relations between the Holy See, Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
The newly established Diocese of Calapan is beginning its life as a diocese with a decades-old legacy of priestly formation rooted in three institutions that have accompanied the Catholic Church in Mindoro: St. Augustine Seminary, St. Augustine Major Seminary and St. Augustine House of Spirituality.
Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to recognize Christ in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy, telling a Spanish organization that serving the most vulnerable is both a demanding mission and a profound encounter with Christ.
Pope Leo XIV met Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the Vatican on August 20, with discussions focusing on efforts to stabilize southern Lebanon and advance a just and lasting peace amid continuing tensions with Israel.
Priests, religious, teachers, university students and environmental advocates from across Indonesia gathered at Eco Camp Bandung in West Java province August 13–16 for an ecological formation program focused on translating Laudato Si’ spirituality into concrete action.
Pope Leo XIV has expressed his solidarity with victims of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province on Aug. 15, killing dozens of people and leaving thousands displaced.
Pope Leo XIV has renewed his call for an end to violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, urging the international community to work toward a two-state solution as the path to a just and lasting peace in the Holy Land.
