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His successor, Pope Leo XIV, celebrated the Mass for the first time on Wednesday, and like Francis, Leo called on Catholics to recognize the urgency of protecting the environment.
The pope needed an electric vehicle he could take abroad without having to take it apart for transport. Club Car obliged.
Pope Leo XIV is praying for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and "hear the cry of the poor." ...
The Vatican commission was created by Pope Francis in 2014 in an effort by the late pontiff to respond after sexual abuse scandals affected the Church in countries across the world.
VATICAN CITY >> Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican’s commission on clergy sexual abuse, in the U.S. pontiff’s first public move to confront an ...
Pope Leo XIV met with children and adolescents participating in the Vatican’s summer camp for kids. Some 300 Ukrainian youth were also in the audience.
Pope Leo XIV will head to the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo for his summer vacation. After 12 years of papal absence, locals are eager to welcome him.
The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass were only part of the evidence he consulted before cracking down on the ...
For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, leaving the town a bit bereft.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni declined to explicitly confirm the authenticity of the documents, which were posted online this week by a Vatican reporter.
ROME — Leaked documents seemingly undermining Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass provided an incomplete reconstruction of the evidence that informed his 2021 ...
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday, July 2, received in audience bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.