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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.
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Pope Leo XIV has sent an initial emergency contribution of €100,000 to dioceses in Colombia affected by a powerful earthquake that struck the western part of the South American country, Vatican News reported.
Pope Leo XIV has urged women and men religious to strengthen communion, embrace the diversity of their charisms and help young people discern their vocation as they confront what he called the “globalization of indifference and of powerlessness.”
Sr. Simona Brambilla, the first woman to head a major Vatican dicastery, will deliver the keynote address at a gathering of Catholic religious leaders in the Philippines in September.
Pope Leo XIV has urged Christians not to lose heart in times of difficulty, reminding them that Jesus remains present even when life feels like a storm.
Bishop George Pallipparambil, SDB, of Miao in northeastern India, has described his appointment by Pope Leo XIV to a Vatican advisory body on catechesis as an unexpected call to serve the wider Church.
Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholic communicators to ensure that digital media remains at the service of humanity, calling for communication rooted in truth, human dignity, peace, and care for creation as the first SIGNIS World Congress to be held in Africa opened in Rwanda.
Pope Leo XIV will make an apostolic journey to Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru from Nov. 6 to 17, 2026, the Holy See Press Office announced. Vatican News reported that the visit will be the pontiff's sixth international trip since his election.
A pectoral cross presented by Pope Leo XIV and a chasuble gifted by the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC) became visible symbols of communion as Bishop Norbert Pu Ying-hsiung of Chiayi celebrated the Indigenous Peoples' Day of Prayer and Offering on August 1, urging Catholics to recognize the invaluable gifts that indigenous peoples bring to the wider Church.
