Australian Bishop Christopher A. Saunders is pictured in Rome June 27, 2019, during “ad limina” visits. On Oct. 7, 2026, Bishop Saunders, former head of the Diocese of Broome, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for abusing two victims who were part of the Indigenous Aboriginal community. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Robert Duncan) Australian […]
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile while riding around St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience Oct. 7, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) VATICAN CITY — Christians “cannot accept the oppression of the weak and the poor, nor the unjust structures that perpetuate conditions of dependence and injustice,” […]
On Oct. 4, 2026, in Assisi, Italy, Archbishop Felice Accrocca of Assisi celebrates a vespers in the lower Basilica of St. Francis in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis. The feast of the “the Little Poor Man of Assisi” was the culminating event of a yearlong jubilee celebration, which began […]
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, greets a rider and his horse, during the blessing of farm animals and pets outside St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Jan. 17, 2026, on the feast of St. Anthony the Abbot. The Vatican named Cardinal Gambetti as the new archbishop of the central Italian Archdiocese of […]
Christians attend the funeral of Mary Hafez Michel Najjar and her mother, Maysa Khader Ibrahim Abu Daoud, at St. Porphyrios Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City Oct. 3, 2026. The Christian mother and daughter, along with three others, were killed in the early morning hours Oct. 3 in an Israeli airstrike on the residential building […]
A nurse gives a patient medication at the palliative care unit of the Clinic Saint-Elisabeth in Marseille, France, May 31, 2024. Pope Leo XIV’s forceful defense of human life during his Sept. 25-27, 2026, visit to France has reignited debate over the country’s newly approved assisted-dying law, which lawmakers had largely considered settled after its […]
Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile before leading his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 30, 2026. (CNS photo/Griffin White) VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV’s journey to France aimed to show that a joyful or serene rebirth is always possible even after tremendous tragedy or terrible […]
Pope Leo XIV speaks with journalists aboard his flight back to Rome Sept. 28, 2026, after concluding his apostolic journey to France and visit to UNESCO. The pope visited Paris, Saint-Denis, Lourdes and Metz during the Sept. 25-28 trip. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM METZ TO ROME — In light of growing […]
Pope Leo XIV waves as he embarks on a four day apostolic visit to France Sept. 25, 2026, from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Fiumicino, Italy. (OSV News photo/Mario Tomassetti, Vatican Media) PARIS — Pope Leo XIV arrived in Paris Sept. 25 beginning his four-day trip to France by urging French leaders not to […]
Pope Leo XIV responds to a question about Blessed Fulton J. Sheen asked by OSV News Vatican editor Courtney Mares aboard the papal plane to France Sept. 25, 2026. (OSV News photo/Claudio Lavanga, Vatican journalists’ pool) ABOARD PAPAL PLANE — On the papal flight to Paris Sept. 25, Pope Leo XIV recalled spending time with […]