Pope Leo XIV gives his blessing to members of the Discalced Carmelite Sisters of the Holy Land, the Sisters of St. Catherine, the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate and the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres at the end of an audience Sept. 22, 2025, at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) The aim of World […]
Pope Leo XIV leads a prayer Oct. 7, 2026, as he opens the weeklong Vatican meeting of presidents of bishops’ conferences marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia” (The Joy of Love”). In his opening remarks, the pope spoke about the pastoral responsibility of the Church to find renewed ways of proclaiming the Gospel, offering […]
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,” […]
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media outside the White House in Washington Sept. 29, 2026, before hosting a luncheon with tech leaders. Attending the luncheon are Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, SpacexAI Founder and CEO Elon Musk, and […]
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 […]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, speaks at a reception after celebrating Mass at the Church of Our Saviour in New York City Sept. 21, 2026. The cardinal was in New York Sept. 20-26 to participate in the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He attended high-level U.N. meetings and delivered several […]
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 […]