Pontifical Academy for Life

In 1958 Lejeune identified that an extra chromosome 21 causes Down syndrome, a breakthrough that transformed modern genetics.

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

The U.S. has already seen more than 1,000 cases of measles in 2026, making the year so far one of the three worst years for measles infections in the U.S. …

In 2016, Pope Francis updated the statutes of the Pontifical Academy for Life, founded in 1994 by St. John Paul II.

Pope Leo XIV has named Cardinal Baldassare Reina grand chancellor of the John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome.