Commemorating the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and its Creed, as well as reaffirming hopes for peace in the Middle East, Pope Leo XIV will travel to Turkey and Lebanon Nov. 27-Dec. 2.
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Cardinal Burke celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
In the presence of hundreds of priests and with lay faithful packed into the pews and standing along the walls, U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke celebrated the traditional Latin Mass at the Altar of the Chair in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota at Wounded Knee
“If we deny our part in history, we deepen the harm,” wrote Bishop Bullock and the Jesuit priests in their message. “We cannot lie about the past without perpetuating injustice and moral blindness.”
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Pope Leo decries opioid crisis, gambling, cruelty toward migrants in major speech on new social ills
“Ever more inhuman measures are being adopted—even celebrated politically—that treat these ‘undesirables’ as if they were garbage and not human beings,” he said during an address to popular movements.
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Migration, AI and key leadership votes on US bishops’ fall meeting agenda
The bishops have a full agenda of both temporal and spiritual matters—including votes for key leadership roles as well as discussions on migration, health care directives, artificial intelligence, Eucharistic devotion and liturgical texts.
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A priest is walking from Pope Leo’s childhood home to Ellis Island to highlight plight of migrants
A Chicago-area priest is on a mission to highlight the plight of families upended by the current mass deportation efforts in the United States by making a 50-day pilgrimage—on foot—from Chicago to New York.
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Pope Leo names St. John Henry Newman co-patron of Catholic education in new document
St. Newman, whom Pope Leo will declare a “doctor of the church” on Nov. 1, will join the current patron of Catholic education, St. Thomas Aquinas.
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U.S. Army says religious support contracts to be ‘reexamined’ after Archbishop Broglio objects to their cancellation
Archbishop Timothy Broglio said the cancellation of all religious support contracts for Army chapels, “including those for religious educators, administrators, and musicians,” placed on Catholics “an insurmountable restriction on the free exercise of religion.”
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Archbishop Broglio: Army’s cancellation of religious support contracts harms Catholics
“For those who attend Mass, visit chapel offices, or participate in faith formation on a U.S. Army installation, you likely noticed, that beginning on Sunday, 5 October 2025, contract services and contractor offices were dark and music was absent during Mass,” the archbishop said in a letter addressed to members of the military archdiocese, which he said will also be sent to all members of Congress.
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Pope Leo meets with board of global organization of clergy sexual abuse victims to talk zero-tolerance
Members said Leo acknowledged the significance of meeting with an activist organization. Popes Francis and Benedict XVI met with individual victims but had kept advocacy groups at arm’s length.