Pope Francis

On Sept. 11, 2001 — the date of the worst terrorist attack in American history, when four hijacked jets became deadly weapons — there was no shortage of heroic first …

For over three decades, the allegations of sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse against Slovenian Father Marko Rupnik were met with cover-ups and bureaucratic delays. 

“It was a long audience that felt more like a conversation between two people discovering they were old friends, sharing memories.”

(OSV News) — Five years after its release, a papal document on the preconciliar form of the Mass, commonly called the “traditional Latin Mass” and abbreviated as the “TLM,” continues …

(OSV News) — Days after participating in Pope Leo XIV’s July 4 visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa — where close to 50,000 refugees and migrants landed in 2025 alone …

“Pope Francis said we shouldn’t simply care for persons with disabilities, but we must ‘ensure their active participation’ in the Church and society at large.”

The gathering is intended “to proceed, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps to be taken” to “proclaim the Gospel to families today.”

The apostolic mandate is required to proceed with bishops’ consecrations, which the society did not have for the July 1 ceremony..

More than 450 laypeople, clergy, scholars, artists, educators, students and family members gathered for the ministry’s fourth conference. The event marked the fifth anniversary of the Outreach ministry itself, which …

Pope Leo opens the first encyclical of his pontificate by saying that humanity today faces a pivotal choice — “either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build …