Pope & Vatican

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (333+ words) Credit: Torvindus | CC-BY-SA-3.0 While a cardinal, St. Robert Bellarmine participated in a conclave that would elect Pope Leo XI. St. Robert Bellarmine is one of the most influential saints in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history. He was extremely vital in the…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago   (244+ words) (OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Sept. 16 in St. Peter’s Square. Brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome! The Council invites us to draw criteria and strength from God’s creative…...

3+ hour, 50+ min ago   (530+ words) Credit: AFP | Simone Risoluti With an upcoming papal trip to Paris and Lourdes, Vatican journalists say Pope Leo XIV will address deep questions on secularization, human dignity, and AI. “In Spain, the Pope’s visit allowed us to gauge a certain…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago   (215+ words) Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said in an interview that he spent a day on the film set of Mel Gibson’s forthcoming movie on the Resurrection. “We spoke for some…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1018+ words) Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council published the conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue have published “A Journey of Hope.” In…...

4+ hour, 41+ min ago   (594+ words) Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council published the conciliar Declaration Nostra aetate, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue have published “A Journey of Hope.” In…...

4+ hour, 46+ min ago   (440+ words) A testament to “fraternal love” and a call for dialogue addressed to the faithful of other religious traditions—coming at a time when the very foundations of dialogue are being undermined by fundamentalism, extremism, violence, and marginalization. At the same…...

5+ hour, 21+ min ago   (612+ words) Pope Leo XIV addressed a Vatican conference on the New Age of Martyrs, noting that over 1,700 Christians from various denominations have been killed for their faith since the turn of the century. The sweeping scope of the Vatican's initiative marks…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago   (843+ words) There will be no recovery of Catholic Social Thought unaccompanied by the necessary intellectual context in which it was born. September 16, 2026 Dr. Thomas R. Rourke Essay, Features 1 Print As Gilson puts it, “the problem at stake in Aeterni Patris is a…...

7+ hour, 13+ min ago   (291+ words) Pope Leo XIV's Sept. 25-28 France visit sheds military honours and state dinners as the Elysee denies tension over protocol trimmed by Rome. Pope Leo XIV's state visit to France from 25 to 28 September will proceed without the full apparatus of republican…...