Vatican News

Cardinal Francis Leo has been named a new member of the Vatican Discastery for Clergy.

Pope Leo XIV’s first World Peace Day message will expand on the prayer he expressed the night of his election when addressing the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

A plan for Pope Leo XIV to visit Lebanon as well as Turkey in late November and early December is being studied, a Vatican official said.

Pope Leo XIV asked Catholics to observe this Friday, Aug. 22, as a day of prayer and fasting for peace and justice, particularly in Ukraine and in the Holy Land.

The scars still borne by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and still visible on the cities' streets and buildings are a plea to pursue peace and disarmament, Pope Leo XIV said.

Pope Leo XIV visited a Spanish teenager who had to be hospitalized during the Jubilee of Youth and prayed with and spoke to the family.

Along one of Rome's busiest streets, Via del Corso, traffic moves slowly as hundreds of pilgrims crisscross traffic on foot to get to their destination.

St. John Henry Newman -- the 19th-century theologian, intellectual and preacher who journeyed from Anglicanism to Catholicism, powerfully shaping religious thought in both faith traditions -- will be named a doctor of the church by Pope Leo XIV.

Rome's historic Risorgimento Square, built in the 19th century in honour of the unification of Italy, has always been a gateway to Vatican City with countless pilgrims, tourists, and locals passing through it on their way to St. Peter's Basilica.

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.