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“I hope you return to your homelands with hearts filled with gratitude and an ardent desire to imitate the new saints,” Pope Leo said.

The U.S. Catholic bishops have appointed veteran journalist Carol Glatz to head up their Rome-based news bureau, succeeding Cindy Wooden, another longtime journalist.

After their private meeting Oct. 23, the king and queen will join Pope Leo in the Sistine Chapel for a midday prayer service focused on “care for creation.”

The Vatican’s missionary news agency shared statistics about the Catholic population, church personnel and the works they are engaged in.

“The primary need from victims/survivors is not financial compensation but rather recognition of harm, genuine apologies, and meaningful action to prevent future abuses,” said the 103-page report, which was released …

In his speech, Pope Leo decried the fact that while humanity has made huge advances in technology, medicine, agriculture and transportation, 673 million people go to bed hungry each night, …

“Dilexi Te” manifests both Pope Leo’s recognition that we need to grow in unity and subtly illustrates a means to bring such unity to a fractured church.

WARSAW, Poland (OSV News) — When pilgrims gather in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 19 to witness the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, along with six other blesseds, they will see …

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is hosting an exhibit of the largest collection of papal artifacts outside of Rome in early 2026.

At his Wednesday morning general audience, Pope Leo’s face lit up with an unusually bright smile receiving a unique donation: Proton, a purebred Arabian horse from a prestigious Polish stable.