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Laypeople are not passive members but active participants in the Church’s mission, called to live and spread the Gospel in everyday life, Pope Leo XIV said.

(OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s general audience address given Apr. 1, in St. Peter’s Square. Catechesis. The Documents of the Second Vatican …

Pope Leo XIV has called on Catholics to pray for priests who find themselves in crisis and to “support those who so often support us.”

“When you substitute the liturgy of the Church for entertainment, you’re taking away … the contemplative capacity within a child to grow,” he said.

Pope Leo answered questions in Italian, English and Spanish as he was leaving Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town 13 miles southeast of Rome, after his customary Tuesday day off. 

(OSV News) — After Pope Leo XIV issued one of his strongest appeals to-date to lay down weapons and reject war in his Palm Sunday homily, the spiritual leader of …

Pope Leo XIV named Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, the substitute secretary for general affairs at the Vatican Secretariat of State, as the apostolic nuncio to Italy and the Republic of …

“He generously mentored many priests and bishops and championed the apostolate of the laity and their vital role in the public square.”

At his first Palm Sunday, Pope Leo XIV declared that Jesus, the King of Peace, embraces all suffering in human history and cries out from the cross against war.

The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Palm Sunday homily given March 29, 2026, in St. Peter’s Square on Jesus Christ as the King of Peace.