Pope pledges strengthened dialogue with Jews May 13, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Among his first messages, Pope Leo XIV expressed his intention to strengthen the Catholic Church’s ties with the Jewish community.
‘He’s always been a brother to us’: Villanova Augustinian prior reflects on future Pope Leo XIV May 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Colleges, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News Augustinian Father Robert Hagan said that fellow order member Pope Leo XIV has “always been a brother to us” — one who encouraged him from his early days to his own leadership role in the order.
Who is St. Augustine, the father of Pope Leo XIV’s order? May 13, 2025By Russell Shaw OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, Vatican, World News “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” St. Augustine’s famous words addressed to God introduce his account of how a headstrong, self-indulgent young man became one of the most important Christian thinkers of all time and a saint — and the father of the Augustinian order, to which Pope Leo XIV belongs.
Report: Catholic Church’s economic benefit to Minnesota is more than $5 billion annually May 13, 2025By Rebecca Omastiak OSV News Filed Under: News, World News A report released earlier this year estimates that the Catholic Church in Minnesota contributes more than $5 billion annually in economic benefits to the state.
Catholic Charities tasked with Afrikaner travel fees as Trump keeps other refugees in limbo May 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington has confirmed to OSV News that its offices are assisting with some travel expenses, at the request of the state of Virginia, for dozens of white South Africans known as Afrikaners, whose refugee applications were expedited by the Trump administration due to what the White House called “racial discrimination.”
Trump signs executive order demanding drug manufacturers lower U.S. prices May 13, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, Uncategorized, World News President Donald Trump signed an executive order May 12 that he said would lower prescription drug costs — an issue the U.S. bishops have flagged in recent years — but the exact potential impact of the order was the subject of debate.
Who are the Augustinians, Pope Leo XIV’s order? May 13, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The first American pope has spoken in the past with affection about the fifth-century convert, bishop and intellectual powerhouse considered the father of his religious order, the Order of St. Augustine.
‘I felt heard’: Catholic school teacher recalls life-changing talk with future pope May 13, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Days before he was elected, Pope Leo XIV (then Cardinal Robert F. Prevost) received a ringing endorsement from a Catholic school teacher in New Jersey — one the pope-to-be apparently read just hours before entering the conclave at which he would be chosen.
‘We look toward the new pontiff with Christian hope,’ says ecumenical patriarch May 12, 2025By Laura Ieraci OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said he hopes Pope Leo XIV will “be a dear brother and collaborator … for the rapprochement of our churches, for the unity of the whole Christian family, and for the benefit of all of humankind.”
New pope to celebrate three public Masses in May May 12, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV’s schedule of public liturgies in May includes events revolving around the inauguration of his ministry, visits to Rome’s major basilicas and a celebration of priestly ordinations.
Pope Leo’s motto, coat of arms pay homage to St. Augustine May 12, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV’s devotion to St. Augustine, his life and ministry as a member of the Augustinian order and his focus on the unity of the church are reflected in his episcopal motto and coat of arms.
Chiclayo, Peru — where Leo XIV was bishop — celebrates one of own becoming pope May 12, 2025By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Peruvians have greeted the election of Pope Leo with elation, pride and even disbelief that an adopted prelate whose pastoral formation came as a Augustinian missionary in poor and undeveloped parts of Peru could become pope and represent the country on the world stage.
