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(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Apr. 1, in St. Peter’s Square. Catechesis. The Documents of the Second Vatican …

Pope Leo XIV has called on Catholics to pray for priests who find themselves in crisis and to “support those who so often support us.”

“When you substitute the liturgy of the Church for entertainment, you’re taking away … the contemplative capacity within a child to grow,” he said.

Pope Leo answered questions in Italian, English and Spanish as he was leaving Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town 13 miles southeast of Rome, after his customary Tuesday day off. 

Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the substitute secretary for general affairs at the Vatican Secretariat of State, as the apostolic nuncio to Italy and the Republic of …

At his first Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV declared that Jesus, the King of Peace, embraces all suffering in human history and cries out from the cross against war.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily given March 29, 2026, in St. Peter’s Square on Jesus Christ as the King of Peace.

In photos: Pope Leo XIV makes an apostolic visit to Monaco March 28, 2026, his second overseas journey as the successor of St. Peter.

Monaco has a record number of people entering the Catholic Church, including one with a dramatic conversion that took her from the fast lane of Formula One.

Pope Leo XIV urged the wealthy citizens of Monaco to remember the poor and protect every human life, saying the Last Judgment “places the poor at its center.”