Pope Leo XIV meets with Maria Montserrat “Montse” Alvarado, president and chief operating officer of EWTN News, during a private audience at the Vatican Aug. 3, 2026. Alvarado, who was appointed by Pope Leo June 2 as prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication, will officially take her new role on Nov. 1. (OSV News […]
The gate of St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church, where gunmen opened fire during a funeral the previous day, in the village of Karak, Jordan, Oct. 24, 2026. (OSV News/Alaa Al Sukhni, Reuters) AMMAN, Jordan — Church bells rang out at noon across Jordan Oct 24 in remembrance of the victims of a massacre in the […]
Father Eugène Almonor, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate and chaplain of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Haitian Catholic community, center, displays a custom image of Haiti’s patroness, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, during an Oct. 17, 2026, Mass at St. William Catholic Church in Philadelphia marking the 50th anniversary of that archdiocese’s Haitian Catholic community. Among […]
Pope Leo XIV begins his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Oct. 21, 2026. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) VATICAN CITY — Marriage requires more than physical attraction, Pope Leo XIV said in his first weekly general audience since undergoing lung cancer surgery, emphasizing that authentic love involves mutual self-giving, fidelity and a […]
A file photo shows disabled protesters against physician-assisted suicide silhouetted as they hold up a banner. Former Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard’s reservations about Canada’s expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD, from an Oct. 10, 2026, interview are drawing international attention. Assisted dying was legalized in Quebec in 2014 when Couillard was premier. He […]
Israeli forces stand outside Palestinian Hanan Hameail’s house in Turmus Ayya in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Oct. 19, 2026, damaged in an Israeli settler attack. (OSV News photo/Ammar Awad, Reuters) Christian leaders in the Holy Land condemned the latest attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank against Palestinians and European diplomats during an annual […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Pope Leo XIV during a meeting at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo Dec. 9, 2025. An Oct. 19, 2026, statement from the Vatican press office said Pope Leo spoke by phone with Zelenskyy, expressing hope that Ukraine and Russia will cooperate on humanitarian aid and evacuations for civilians in […]
Bishop Ramón Castro Castro of Cuernavaca, president of the Mexican bishops’ conference, presents Pope Leo XIV with the 200-page book “One Name, a Thousand Voices” at the Vatican Oct. 8, 2026. The book documents cases of people who have gone missing in Mexico amid the country’s ongoing security crisis. (OSV News photo/courtesy Mexican bishops’ conference) […]
The congregation gathers at a memorial Mass for Redemptorist Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari Oct. 18, 2026, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Guayaquil, Ecuador. A day earlier he was fatally injured when a large crucifix tipped forward and fell, striking the priest directly on the head while he was celebrating Mass at […]
Demonstrators react amid tear gas in Paris Oct. 18, 2026, the day after a national day of demonstrations against the cost of living and rising fuel prices. (OSV News photo/Abdul Saboor, Reuters) France’s bishops condemned “unacceptable violence” that “gripped” the country over the Oct. 17-18 weekend, saying the scenes of rioting “plunged the country into […]