Leaving Castel Gandolfo this evening, Nov. 4, Pope Leo XIV told reporters that he “would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs” of detained migrants.
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Vatican officially says no to controversial titles for Mary: ‘Co-redemptrix’ and ‘Mediatrix of all Graces’
The titles risk obscuring the revealed truth that Christ is “the sole Mediator and Redeemer,” a new document from the Vatican’s doctrinal office says.
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Pope Leo declares St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church and co-patron of Catholic education
Pope Leo XIV declared St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, also declaring the saint co-patron with St. Thomas Aquinas of the church’s educational mission.
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Pope Leo at interfaith peace meeting: ‘War is never holy’
On Tuesday evening, Oct. 28, Pope Leo made a forceful appeal for peace at Rome’s Colosseum and in the presence of representatives of the world’s main religions.
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Pope Leo and King Charles make history with first-ever joint prayer service in Sistine Chapel
For the first time in history, a British monarch and a pope prayed together in the Sistine Chapel in an event of great ecumenical significance.
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Pope Leo says religious freedom is ‘not optional but essential’ as new report documents global persecution
Almost two-thirds of humanity—more than five billion people—live in countries where serious violations of religious freedom are taking place, according to the 2025 “Religious Freedom in the World Report.”
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Pope Leo declares seven new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea
Pope Leo XIV spoke about the central importance of faith in today’s world as he declared that the Catholic Church has seven new saints—two from Venezuela, one from Papua New Guinea, one Armenian and three from Italy—on Sunday, Oct. 19.
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King Charles to visit Pope Leo: here’s what to expect
Pope Leo XIV will receive King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a private audience on Oct. 23 and, afterward, for the first time, a British monarch and a pope will pray together in the Sistine Chapel.
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Pope Leo says global hunger is a sign of ‘soulless economy’ and a ‘collective failure’
In a forceful speech on Oct. 16 to the general assembly of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome, Pope Leo XIV called out the failure of the international community to eliminate hunger in today’s world and strongly denounced “the use of hunger as a weapon of war.”
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Pope Leo appoints Cardinal Cupich to commission for Vatican City State
Today’s appointment is seen in Rome as a sign of the esteem that Pope Leo has for the cardinal archbishop of Chicago, who recently came under fire from a number of U.S. bishops for giving a lifetime achievement award to Illinois’s Senator Dick Durbin.