Vatican News

The pontiff is expected to travel to Africa in April, visit Peru later this year, and make a summer stop in Spain.

The country’s bishops will travel to Rome from Feb. 16–20 to present to Pope Leo XIV “the vicissitudes, sorrows, joys, and hopes of the Church in Cuba.”

In a message for the Church’s Feb. 8 World Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking, the pope warns that conflict and inequality fuel exploitation.

Pope Leo XIV and Sant’Egidio Community founder Andrea Riccardi discussed the role Christians and the Church are called to play in promoting peace in the midst of various world conflicts.

“We talked about the importance of chastity, how it heals and strengthens and restores the person," said Courage International Executive Director Father Brian Gannon.

The pontiff warned that profit, doping, and fanaticism can distort sport’s deeper human purpose.

The pontiff said Christians grow closer when they deepen their shared faith in Christ, “the ultimate source of our peace.”

The pontiff told organizers of a Vatican-backed initiative that global crises are still leaving many children in extreme poverty.

Planned consecrations could trigger automatic excommunication and deepen rupture with Rome.

Trappist Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim will preach the week of spiritual exercises, with two daily meditations beginning Feb. 22.

The Vatican has published the schedule of liturgies that Pope Leo XIV will celebrate in February, March, and the beginning of April, which includes the start of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter.

At his general audience, Pope Leo XIV appealed for renewed nuclear arms-control efforts and asked Catholics to proclaim the Gospel in ways that speak to people’s real lives.

Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of February is for children with incurable diseases.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Sister Raffaella Petrini as a member of the Commission for Reserved Matters, which is responsible for awarding financial contracts in confidential areas of the Vatican.

From Feb. 4–8, the Catholic Church will mobilize with a series of activities in Rome in support of human dignity and peace.

The English saint, proclaimed a doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIV in November 2025, is honored every Oct. 9.

The pontiff urged consecrated men and women to witness to God’s presence in a world where faith and daily life often drift apart.

Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, the retired archbishop of L’Aquila, succeeds Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the retired archbishop of Vienna.

“I told him about the abuse,” David Ryan said. “I did get a feeling of being listened to and being understood.”

The plan threatens to harden a decades-old split between the traditionalist group and the Vatican.

The pontiff echoed Cuban bishops’ call for “sincere and effective” talks after Washington announced new measures tightening economic pressure on the island.

Since 2012, the Vatican has entrusted the wooden cross designed and created by British artist Jon Cornwall to dioceses hosting the summer and winter Olympics.

Leo met with members of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, the pontifical organization that publishes the pope’s monthly prayer intention videos.

There is already a small café serving coffee, drinks, and gelato on the roof of the historic church.

The pontiff urged members to clarify their vocation and strengthen communion across the apostolic movement.

The pope received the participants in the plenary session of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) — one of the oldest and most significant offices in the Holy See — on Jan. 29.

The Vatican is lending its support to the Journey to Redemption 2033, a youth movement focused on spiritual renewal and culminating in a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to commemorate the Redemption.

The foundation promotes the publication, dissemination, and study of Pope Benedict XVI’s writings and thought.

The new secretary of the Dicastery for the Clergy exemplifies the pope’s push for rule-of-law governance and seasoned hands in Rome.

The Holy Father appealed to communities of nations “to be ever vigilant, so that the horror of genocide may never again befall any people.”

The pontiff warns that artificial intelligence and digital technologies can undermine human relationships and distort reality unless they are guided by responsibility and rooted in education.

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said Church officials with censorious attitudes risks promoting “the same deception that led to the excesses of the Inquisition.”

A cathedral archivist has confirmed the Spanish origins of the pontiff's family on his mother's side.

Pope Leo XIV received the prelates of the highest appellate tribunal in the Catholic Church at the Vatican on Monday, emphasizing that true justice requires a balance between truth and charity.

Father Miguel Silvestre explains his role in facilitating the bishops’ ad limina visits to the Holy See and what they entail, with a focus on the recent visit by the bishops of Puerto Rico.

The pontiff looked back to the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in 2025.

In his message for World Mission Day, the pope says missionary renewal depends on spiritual communion and reconciliation among Christians.

At the Angelus on Sunday, the pope prayed for Ukraine and urged renewed efforts to end the war.

In a message to an Italian public television show on its 30th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV pointed out the benefits but also the risks and dangers of digital media.

Pope Leo XIV approved on Jan. 22 the beatification of Guatemalan martyr Friar Augusto Ramírez Monasterio and Maria Ignazia Isacchi, an Italian religious who founded a new congregation.

If Christians lose their identity they cannot be united, Father Philip Goyret says.

The visits, which will take place on Sundays in February and March, will include the celebration of Mass.

The Holy See rejected claims that discontent is widespread among its employees after an internal survey found distrust of managers and alleged workplace harassment.

In an exclusive interview with EWTN News, Pope Benedict XVI’s former secretary said “normality is slowly returning” to the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV.

Dominican Father Nelson Medina explains the purpose of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Jan. 18–25, as well as the goal and parameters of ecumenism.

The pope urged journalists to refocus on relationships, reconciliation, and the voices of the vulnerable.

The Vatican secretary of state responded to President Donald Trump’s proposal for a body to oversee reconstruction of the enclave.

A survey finds widespread dissatisfaction among lay employees of the Holy See.

The wool of the blessed lambs will be used to make pallia, narrow white vestments worn by metropolitan archbishops.

The pope continued his catechesis series on the documents of the Second Vatican Council at Wednesday’s general audience.