Papal Trip

Recent announcements by bishops in Angola, Algeria and Spain have indicated Pope Leo XIV will visit their respective countries this year. 

VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — With the jubilee year now officially ended, the pope’s travel schedule is also expected to ramp up, with one trip especially dear to the pontiff …

As Pope Leo XIV wrapped up his first apostolic visit to Turkey and Lebanon, he gave a hint on his flight back to Rome as to which other countries he …

Leo’s papacy, of nine months gestation, has revealed itself slowly — full of hope but also hidden, as though the first pope from the United States meant to show himself …

Pope Leo XIV ended his stay in Lebanon with what he termed “a heartfelt appeal: may the attacks and hostilities cease.”

Pope Leo met the 15,000 young people after meeting their elders in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square

At a shrine topped by a 28-foot-tall statue of Our Lady of Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV listened to stories of unshakable faith amid war, injustice and suffering.

Pope Leo was met at the Beirut airport by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM TURKEY (CNS) — On his first foreign papal trip, Pope Leo XIV showed reporters that the inflight news conferences of his predecessors would continue. And, …

As he had done throughout his visit to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV spent his last morning in the country reaffirming the Catholic Church’s commitment to the search for Christian unity.