Pope Leo XIV approved expanded benefits for Vatican employees with children, formalizing the five-day paternity leave granted by Pope Francis in January and raising the age of children covered by the Vatican’s family allowance.
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The Vatican is out of cash. Will Pope Leo’s high approval rating help get donations?
Past papal elections and the subsequent honeymoon period of the new pope have, in general, brought increases in donations to Peter’s Pence, an annual Vatican donation drive.
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Pope Leo visits teen hospitalized during Jubilee of Youth
Pope Leo said that if the teen “had come all the way to Rome, then (the pope) could come all the way to the hospital to see him.”
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Pope Leo offers prayers after shipwreck of migrant boat off Yemen
As emergency workers searched for survivors and tried to recuperate the bodies of the dead, Pope Leo XIV offered his prayers for people impacted by the latest shipwreck of a migrant boat off the coast of Yemen.
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Pope Leo’s message to Gen Z: ‘You are a sign that a different world is possible’
At a Mass for the Jubilee of Youth outside Rome, Pope Leo exhorted over a million young people to be “seeds of hope” and a “sign that a different world is possible.”
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St. John Henry Newman will be named doctor of the church by Pope Leo
On July 31, Pope Leo XIV announced that St. John Henry Newman, English theologian, educator, and writer who converted to Catholicism after being an Anglican priest, will be named a Doctor of the Church.
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Catholic influencers’ festival celebrates evangelization in the digital age
Catholic digital content creators reflect on their experiences at the Vatican’s first-ever Jubilee of Digital Missionaries and Catholic Influencers.
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Pope Leo to Catholic influencers: Create encounters—not just content
On Tuesday, Pope Leo XIV addressed a crowd of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers about the responsibilities and challenges of their ministry.
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Pope Leo: Catholic migrants are ‘a true divine blessing’ to the churches that receive them
On Friday, Pope Leo XIV issued a statement on the theme “Migrants, missionaries of hope.”
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The biggest event of the Jubilee Year: a gathering of half a million young Catholics
Rome is organizing security, hydration stations, portable bathrooms, and giant water cannons to prepare for the influx of young pilgrims coming to celebrate the Jubilee.