Pope Leo XIV names Archbishop Caccia papal ambassador to United States March 7, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV has named Archbishop Gabriele G. Caccia as the Vatican’s ambassador to the United States, selecting a seasoned diplomat to serve as a crucial liaison between Rome and the pope’s home country.
Vatican hosted its own mini Paralympics half a century before Games’ official start March 6, 2026By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Sports, Vatican, World News More than 50 years before the first Paralympic Games were held in 1960 in Rome, the Vatican had already hosted what might have been the very first international sporting and gymnastics event with athletes living with disabilities.
Historian reflects on Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ with Sistine Chapel restoration underway March 6, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Arts & Culture, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican Museums announced that restoration work has begun on Michelangelo’s “The Last Judgement” in the Sistine Chapel, a fresco an art historian describes as “a clarion call to the cardinals of what it means to be Catholic.”
Pope Leo XIV meets with authors of book on Latin Mass in U.S. March 6, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments Pope Leo XIV met two sociologists on March 5 who have co-authored a book on Catholics who attend the traditional Latin Mass in the United States.
Pope Leo XIV prays for leaders to ‘abandon projects of death’ in peace prayer video March 5, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Caribbean, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV prayed for world leaders to “abandon projects of death” in a video message released by the Vatican on March 5 calling on people around the world to pray for peace.
Vatican theological commission warns of replacing God with ‘a world governed by machines’ March 5, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s International Theological Commission has warned that if humanity places total trust in technology in a “world ruled by machines,” it risks replacing the “living God” with a counterfeit “virtual God.”
Cardinal Parolin questions whether missiles, bombs are solution to Iranian people’s aspirations March 4, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican secretary of state appealed for peace and diplomacy on the fifth day of the U.S. and Israel-Iran war, warning that recognition of any country’s right to wage “preventive war” according to their own criteria would risk the world “being set ablaze.”
Church is holy by Christ’s presence, not human perfection, pope says March 4, 2026By Josephine Peterson Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church is both a community made up of fragile and limited human beings and a divine reality, Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly general audience.
Vatican synod study group proposes creation of pontifical commission for new technologies March 4, 2026By Courtney Mares Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Synodality, Vatican, World News A Synod on Synodality study group has recommended the creation of a new “Pontifical Commission for Digital Culture and New Technologies” in the first of 15 synod study group reports expected in the coming weeks.
Church can teach what’s at stake when nations choose war, not peace, cardinal says March 3, 2026By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News In a fractured world threatened by war, Christians can strengthen their bonds of unity to show the world that peace is possible, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago said.
From Algeria to Angola, Africans hope message of peace, dialogue will resonate during papal trip March 3, 2026By Ngala Killian Chimton OSV News Filed Under: News, Religious Freedom, Vatican, World News From Algeria to Angola, Church leaders across Africa expressed profound joy and hopes that the upcoming apostolic trip would bring much needed change to regions needing reconciliation and social stability, and dialogue to those who live interreligious relations daily.
Pope Leo’s prayer to St. Francis: a call to peace in a divided world March 2, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Conflict in the Middle East, Vatican As tensions escalate following the Feb. 28 U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, we share this prayer to St. Francis of Assisi — a timeless intercessor for peace — which Pope Leo XIV shared with leaders of the Franciscan order on the beginning of the 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ death in January 2026.
