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(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given May 20 in St. Peter’s Square. Initial Greeting of the Holy Father to …

VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has encouraged young Catholics preparing to receive the sacrament of confirmation to ask the Holy Spirit for the gift of perseverance, warning that …

The pope also greeted a friend from their mutual hometown in Illinois.

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” will be published May 25, the Vatican announced.

Pope Leo XIV approved the creation of an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence in a rescript released May 16.

The visit will be the first time a pope has traveled to France on an official papal state visit since Pope Benedict XVI in 2008

“Technology must remain a tool at the service of the human person, without transforming into a substitute for the sacred.”

Pope Leo has returned to the subject of AI again and again in speeches, messages and interviews since his election in May 2025.

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given May 13, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, in St. Peter’s Square. …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Marking the anniversary of the attempted assassination of St. John Paul II and the feast of Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Leo XIV said Mary is …