- Mar Awa III gives Pope Leo XIV a Chicago Cubs jersey, rivals of the pope’s White SoxMar Awa III presents a Chicago Cubs jersey to Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 29, 2025 / 16:29 pm (CNA). During his stay in the Eternal City, His Holiness Mar Awa III met Oct. 27 with Pope Leo XIV in a private ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV: ‘The Church does not tolerate antisemitism’Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly general audience on Oct. 29, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 29, 2025 / 08:55 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV condemned antisemitism during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 29 and also prayed for ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV: 'The Church does not tolerate anti-Semitism'Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter's Square for his weekly general audience on Oct. 29, 2025. / Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 29, 2025 / 08:55 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV strongly condemned anti-Semitism during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 29 during which the pope ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV commemorates Nostra Aetate anniversary with interfaith celebrationsApproximately 300 representatives of world religions and cultures joined the Holy Father for an evening ecumenical prayer service for peace, organized by the Community of Sant’Egidio, on Oct. 28, 2025, at the Colosseum in Rome. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 29, 2025 / 05:00 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV joined ... read more
- Why is St. Jude the patron saint of lost causes?A candle of St. Jude. / Credit: Francesca Pollio/CNA CNA Staff, Oct 28, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA). On Oct. 28, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Jude, also known as Thaddeus, one of the 12 apostles of Jesus. ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV meets with Viktor Orbán at the VaticanPope Leo XIV meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Oct. 27, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 27, 2025 / 17:49 pm (CNA). In separate audiences on Monday, Pope Leo XIV received two political leaders with very different views on the migration issue. ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV urges university students to feed ‘hunger for truth and meaning’Pope Leo XIV addresses the audience in his homily at a Mass on Oct. 27, 2025, marking both the start of the academic year at Rome’s pontifical universities and the opening day of the Jubilee of the World of Education. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 27, 2025 / 14:53 pm ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV on the gifts of women and synodality: ‘Women are already better’Pope Leo XIV speaks to participants in the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies on Oct. 24, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 27, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV drew laughter and applause when he recalled asking ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV: The first lesson for every bishop is humilityPope Leo XIV celebrates a Mass of episcopal consecration at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter's Basilica on Oct. 26, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA. Vatican City, Oct 26, 2025 / 18:24 pm (CNA). Bishops should be humble servants and men of prayer — not possession, Pope Leo XIV said ... read more
- Pope Leo: Don’t let tension between tradition, novelty become ‘harmful polarizations’Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies on the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Oct. 26, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 26, 2025 / 08:10 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said at a Mass on Sunday that no ... read more
- PHOTOS: Cardinal Burke celebrates Latin Mass in St. Peter’s BasilicaPilgrims participate in a Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, celebrated by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke at the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Vatican City, Oct 25, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA). Burke celebrated the Solemn Pontifical Mass, ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV gives advice for living with hope in a ‘troubled era’Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hope in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 25, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media. Vatican City, Oct 25, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV said the key to living in a difficult time, when the Church’s teachings are ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV: There’s no template for synodality across all countriesPope Leo XIV sits next to Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the Vatican's synod office, during the jubilee of synod teams and participatory bodies in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 25, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV spoke ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV to John Paul II Institute: Your mission is to speak and live the truthPope Leo XIV greets a baby during an audience with the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Vatican on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 / 13:44 pm (CNA). “Your specific mission concerns the search for and ... read more
- Pope Leo XIV approves decrees for 11 martyrs killed by Nazi Germany, communistsThe sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. / Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct ... read more
Vatican publishes Pope Francis’s foreword to book by Father Gustavo Gutiérrez (Vatican News (Italian))
The Vatican has published the late Pope Francis’s foreword to the last work of Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP, the father of liberation theology. Father Gutiérrez died last year; the book …
