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.
Pope Leo XIV
Posted inVatican Dispatch
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.
Posted inPodcasts
Has Pope Leo’s honeymoon ended? U.S. Catholics push back.
Pope Leo faces criticism from some U.S. Catholics over his consistent pro-life ethic and advocacy for migrants.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
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.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
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.”
Posted inNews
Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal
The Vatican’s child protection board said Thursday the Catholic Church has a moral obligation to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal.
Posted inNews
Pope Leo ‘very happy’ to be gifted a horse from prestigious Polish stable
At his Wednesday morning general audience, Pope Leo’s face lit up with an unusually bright smile receiving a unique donation: Proton, a purebred Arabian horse from a prestigious Polish stable.
Posted inVatican Dispatch
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.
Posted inDispatches
Pope Leo ice blessing sets off social media meltdown
Holy water is a pretty regular feature at Catholic churches, so why were some commentators on social media in an uproar over Pope Leo’s blessing of ice removed from a Greenland glacier?
Posted inShort Take
Pope Leo praised ‘healthy secularism.’ What might that mean for U.S. Catholics?
Catholics, Leo suggests, should neither attempt to dominate the political sphere nor separate themselves from it.