A file photo shows the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica during sunset at the Vatican. Pope Leo XIV has repealed provisions introduced by Pope Francis in March 2021 that reduced the salaries of cardinals and Vatican employees as a cost-saving measure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Vatican published the papal decree, signed earlier in the […]
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Amgen Irish Open at Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, Ireland, Sept. 13, 2026. (OSV News photo/Kylie Cooper, Reuters) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump backed Irish unification during a meeting Sept. 12 with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin, a move that drew praise from a U.S. Irish […]
Pope Leo XIV views books as he ttends the inauguration of the exhibition “AQVA. Catastrophe and Wonder” at the Vatican Library Sept. 14, 2026. The exhibition is the opening chapter of a five-year cycle exploring water as both a life-giving and destructive force. (OSV News photo/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media) ROME — Pope Leo XIV visited […]
An undated graphic shows the cover template of “Truth Heals,” a new book by Paulina Guzik, international editor for OSV News and professor of media studies and communications at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland. The book explores guidelines on how to transparently communicate the abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. […]
Pope Leo XIV leads the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 13, 2026. Pope Leo commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in his address, praying for “those who continue to bear the wounds of that tragic day.” (OSV News photo/Matteo Pernaselci, Vatican Media) ROME — Pope […]
Pope Leo XIV speaks during a Sept. 10, 2026, meeting in the Vatican Synod Hall with bishops ordained over the past year. The bishops were attending a course sponsored by the Dicastery for Bishops and the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Everyone needs to feel there is room […]
A South Korean flag is seen as Pope Leo XIV gestures to pilgrims Aug. 3, 2025, the day of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of Youth at the Tor Vergata open-air field in Rome. Pope Leo will attend World Youth Day in Seoul Aug. 3-8, 2027. (OSV News photo/Vatican Media via Reuters) All across […]
Archbishop Stefan Hesse of Hamburg, who is the special representative for refugee issues for the German Bishops’ Conference, looks through the U.S.-Mexico border fence Aug. 25, 2026, after returning from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. (OSV News photo/Daniela Elpers, courtesy German Bishops Conference) Touring the U.S.–Mexico border between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El […]
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, after a joint news conference, amid Russia’s continous invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept. 6, 2026. (OSV News photo/Valentyn Ogirenko, Reuters) Pope Leo XIV once again appealed for peace in Ukraine and prayed that U.S.-led negotiation efforts […]
Haitian-born Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old honors student at at Wright State University in Greene County, Ohio, died in an apparent suicide Aug. 31, 2026. He is pictured in an undated photo posted on Instagram. His father said that “everything changed” once his son was fitted with an ankle monitor by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement […]