Year: 2026

Pope Leo XIV described sports as a “medicine for both body and spirit, when it is practiced well” and an “opportunity for spiritual growth.”

The Vatican newspaper published a reflection by Eugenio Mazzarella on Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo’s encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. Mazzarella, a philosophy professor, …

Pope Leo XIV encouraged the presidents of Jesuit colleges and universities in North America to turn to the Society of Jesus’ four universal apostolic preferences to help confront the challenges …

We need to stop referring to Catholic devotions as superstitious. I’m specifically talking about the weird devotions. If you need to find your keys, pray to St Anthony. If you …

The 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, whose theme is “One Nation Under God,” arrived in the Diocese of Portland, Maine, its northernmost point, on June 23. The pilgrimage, which began in …

The vice president of the Haitian Episcopal Conference lamented the plight of Haitian mothers who have fled the conflict there for the neighboring Dominican Republic (map).

The Alliance to End Human Trafficking, whose members include over 200 congregations of religious sisters, warned that legislation under consideration in the U.S. Senate “could weaken safeguards against illicit finance …

Addressing the opening session of the two-day extraordinary consistory of the College of Cardinals (program), Pope Leo said today that “mission is not merely one of the Church’s many tasks,” …