Tag: Pope Leo

What the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly can teach every marriage about frailty.

Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel laureate, celebrated novelists and authors from nearly a dozen countries met at the Vatican 24 June for an audience with Pope Leo XIV, who reflected on the importance of books to reveal who we are and "our inner dialogue with God."

Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas could be a seminal document for Gen Z Catholics, as they navigate an AI world.

Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming visit to France is taking shape, with French Church leaders releasing new details about the 25-28 September apostolic journey and expressing hopes that it will inspire the same enthusiasm seen during the pope’s recent visit to Spain.

More than 1.2 million people filled the streets of Madrid as Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass and led a Eucharistic procession through the heart of the Spanish capital 7 June for the solemnity of Corpus Christi, the liturgical feast celebrating the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.

Much commentary on Pope Leo's first encyclical centres on its critique of AI. But the core of his message is that while tech opens opportunities, it can close us to life.

Speaking at the Vatican press conference May 25 to present his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV said his conversations with industry leaders – including "very troubling voices" who warned of autonomous weapons systems beyond effective human governance – had led him to the conviction that AI "needs to be disarmed."

Torch flames flickered against nearly 2,000-year-old stone walls as crowds packed the streets around the Colosseum, praying alongside the pope through the traditional Via Crucis on the first Good Friday of his pontificate April 3.

Pope Leo XIV washed and kissed the feet of 12 priests on Holy Thursday in his first Easter Triduum liturgy as pope, saying that Jesus taught us how to love like he loves during the Last Supper.

Papal biographer George Weigel calls out The New Yorker for sloppy fact-checking and ideological spin in its portrait of the ‘first American pope’.”

The cause for sainthood for Australian-born doctor and missionary in India Mary Glowrey has advanced after Pope Leo XIV recognised her ‘heroic virtues’ on 21 November 2025.

At a time when young people spend so much time in "digital environments," members of the Catholic Biblical Federation need to ask how they are fulfilling the Second Vatican Council's mandate to give everyone access to the Bible, Pope Leo XIV said.