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In his homily for the Church’s celebration of Mary’s birth, Pope Leo invited prayerful contemplation of the virtues of the Virgin Mary.

“The renewed presence of the Holy Father in our diocesan territory has filled our local Church and its people with joy,” Bishop Vincenzo Viva of Albano said.

The Augustinian pope did not disappoint pilgrims waiting in the July Italian sun at Castel Gandolfo town square, delivering a reflection in a relaxed mood during his summer vacation.

Pope Leo XIV traveled to the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa July 4, laying a wreath at the graves of migrants who drowned trying to reach Europe.

In a noisy world, “Benedictine life proposes something different: a way of inhabiting the world with greater attentiveness, balance and humanity.”

ROME (OSV News) — Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the influential Italian churchman who shaped Catholic life in Italy for nearly two decades as both vicar of Rome and president of the Italian …

“I don’t know if it’s a particular devotion to her as a saint, but she represents, for the church, the church’s embrace of immigrants.”

81-year-old Father Diego Semeraro, from the southern Italian region of Puglia, felt faint due to the strong heat in Rome on the day of the audience.

POMPEII, Italy (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV marked the anniversary of his May 8 election by making a pilgrimage to celebrate Mass at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of the …

A new analysis from Pew Research Center has found that Catholicism has lost more members than it has gained in most of the 24 countries surveyed, while Protestantism has seen …