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Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 11:24 am (CNA). Continuing his jubilee catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” the Holy Father said the mystery of Christ’s ... read more

St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 09:07 am (CNA). The Holy Father will designate Newman as an official co-patron saint of education, together with St. Thomas Aquinas. ... read more

A view of the Vatican Apostolic Library in 2021. / Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty Images CNA Staff, Oct 21, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA). Reports circulating in media outlets and on social media in October 2025 allege that the Vatican has opened a prayer room for Muslims in the Apostolic Library. ... read more

Seven new saints were canonized on Oct. 19, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:53 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday highlighted the life testimony of the saints canonized Sunday, Oct. 19, as “luminous signs of hope” for today’s Catholics. ... read more

Ending Clergy Abuse board members and survivors hold a press conference after meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20, 2025 in Rome. / Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 12:21 pm (CNA). Four victims and two advocates from Ending Clergy Abuse had an hourlong conversation with Pope ... read more

Bishop Mark O’Connell. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Boston Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 09:44 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Monday named Bishop Mark O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of Boston, the next bishop of the Diocese of Albany, New York. ... read more

A Venezuelan priest who concelebrated the canonization Mass with Pope Leo XIV celebrates his country's first saints in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 19, 2025. / Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN Vatican City, Oct 19, 2025 / 08:15 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV declared seven new saints before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s ... read more

Pope Leo XIV hugs a man during the Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 13:10 pm (CNA). About 4,000 pilgrims from more than 70 countries in Europe and beyond took part in the Vatican’s Jubilee of Roma, ... read more

Pope Leo XIV is seen here at the Jubilee of Youth on August 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 11:48 am (CNA). On the occasion of World Mission Day, to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19, the Vatican news agency Fides presented statistics that offer ... read more

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the Rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan considered the “doctor of the poor.” Banners of the new saints are on display on St. Peter's Basilica for all to see ... read more

Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for the Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sept. 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Oct 17, 2025 / 13:38 pm (CNA). The pontiff penned a letter to Francesco, a father of four, who wrote ... read more

The president of the Pontifical International Marian Academy (PAMI), Franciscan friar Stefano Cecchin, OFM. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News Vatican City, Oct 17, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Father Stefano Cecchin, OFM, president of the Pontifical International Marian Academy, (PAMI by its Italian acronym), which reports directly to the Roman Curia, said ... read more

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn (left) shakes hands with now Archbishop-elect of Vienna Josef Grünwidl at the time of his appointment as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Vienna on Jan. 22, 2025, and on Oct. 17, 2025. / Credit: Archdiocese of Vienna / Stephan Schönlaub Rome Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 06:02 am ... read more

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 16, 2025 / 10:48 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV sent a message to the Networks of Indigenous Peoples and the Network of Indian ... read more

Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Oct. 16, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 16, 2025 / 09:26 am (CNA). Pope Leo XIV visited the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ... read more