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Pope Leo XIV enjoys a Christmas concert. The pontiff, who is on vacation at the lakeside town, will attend a classical concert in his honor on July 18. ... read more

Writer and historian Hilaire Belloc is pictured in a 1910 portrait by T. & R. Annan & Sons. Along with G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc was hugely influential in the growth of the Catholic presence in the wider culture. ... read more

St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo, New York The diocese also will seek to remove Father Jeffrey Nowak from the clerical state. ... read more

The Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is demanding a jury trial as it fends off the Trump administration's move to seize a long-revered pilgrimage site for a border wall as part of Trump's hardline crackdown on immigration. ... read more

The Palazzo Senatorio, Rome’s City Hall, is located at the Piazza del Campidoglio atop Rome’s Capitoline Hill. The declaration was signed on July 16, marking the conclusion of a three-day Vatican summit on AI security risks. ... read more

Paris, France / Pedro Lastra / Unsplash (CC0) There is no such thing as “generational sin.” That sentence may shock some readers who have aligned themselves with well-known Catholic writers and priests who argue to the contrary. The “generational sin” concept is most commonly found in celebrity exorcist circles, within which exorcism ... read more

Elisabetta Trevisan Pope Leo waves to the faithful during the July 12, 2026, Angelus at Castel Gandolfo. ‘The pope normally speaks as a head of the Church,’ papal expert Father Roberto Regoli told EWTN News. ... read more

The Diocese of Buffalo, New York, has cut a priest off from financial support and is seeking his removal from the clerical state after federal investigators accused him of “abhorrent criminal conduct,” the diocese said this week. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York said in July that Father Jeffrey Nowak ... read more

The diocese also will seek to remove Father Jeffrey Nowak from the clerical state. St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo, New York. | Credit: CiEll/Shutterstock The Diocese of Buffalo, New York, has cut a priest off from financial support and is seeking his removal from the ... read more

The pontiff, who is on vacation at the lakeside town, will attend a classical concert in his honor on July 18. Pope Leo XIV enjoys the Christmas concert. | Credit: Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV, who has restored the papal tradition of spending part of ... read more

Pope Leo XIV, who has restored the papal tradition of spending part of the summer at Castel Gandolfo, is set to attend a classical concert there on July 18.The “Concert in Honor of the Holy Father Leo XIV” will take place in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, where he is staying ... read more

Inspired by Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, more than 200 leading academics, innovators, and Nobel laureates signed a declaration in Rome on July 16 calling for responsible AI development and the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.“We must disarm the next arms race, both AI and nuclear, before they define the next century as well,” the ... read more

The declaration was signed on July 16, marking the conclusion of a three-day Vatican summit on AI security risks. The Palazzo Senatorio, Rome’s city hall, is located at the Piazza del Campidoglio atop Rome’s Capitoline Hill. | Credit: Ishmael Adibuah/EWTN News Inspired by Pope Leo ... read more

When the pope speaks out on matters of war and peace, is he doing so as a religious authority or a political leader? A U.S. diplomat and a Vatican official recently expressed contrasting views on the question.According to the New York Times last week, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch argued that when ... read more

“The pope normally speaks as a head of the Church,” papal expert Father Roberto Regoli told EWTN News. Pope Leo XIV looks out from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after his election on May 8, 2025. | Credit: Vatican Media When the pope ... read more