Vatican City mints new coins featuring face of Pope Leo XIV August 14, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Numismatists take note. The Vatican City State Mint has issued a new set of coins to mark Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate and the Jubilee Year of St. Francis of Assisi.
Pope Leo XIV urges sisters to foster vocations to religious life in United States August 13, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV encouraged sisters to foster vocations to religious life in the United States in a video message sent Aug. 12.
Vatican announces ‘disarming technology’ will be theme of next World Day of Peace August 11, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican announced Aug. 11 that Pope Leo XIV’s message for the 2027 World Day of Peace will focus on “disarming technology” and political leaders’ moral responsibility.
World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul to be ‘a celebration of hope,’ archbishop says August 8, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Seoul ROME (OSV News) — Preparations are in full swing for World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul, South Korea, where Pope Leo XIV is expected to join young Catholics from around the world for the second World Youth Day ever held in Asia. The Aug. 3-8, 2027, gathering comes more than three decades after the first […]
Pope Leo XIV to visit 10 cities in South America in November August 6, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV will make the first apostolic journey to South America of his pontificate Nov. 6-17, visiting 10 cities in Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, the Vatican has announced.
Pope Leo writes to 97-year-old cardinal who spent 18 years in labor camps August 3, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News At the age of 97, Cardinal Ernest Simoni, returned to the former prison camp in Albania where he used to offer Mass in secret during his 18 years of sentenced forced labor, offering a public Mass July 31 in the memory of those who suffered and died at the labor camp.
Pope Leo XIV to offer public Masses and audiences every week of August July 30, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV will celebrate a public Mass every week of August after taking time to rest in Castel Gandolfo during the month of July.
Pope Leo XIV at Andrea Bocelli concert: Music’s beauty points us to God July 30, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As dusk settled over the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo on July 29, Pope Leo XIV listened as Andrea Bocelli led 164 young voices in a hymn, prompting the pope to offer a reflection on how beauty can lead us to God.
Pope Leo to youth: Jesus doesn’t want you to be couch potatoes July 28, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News, World Youth Day Seoul Pope Leo XIV urged young people not to be “couch potatoes” in a video message on July 25, adding that the Church needs their missionary energy and “holy rebelliousness.
Andrea Bocelli to sing for Pope Leo with international children’s choir July 25, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Renown tenor Andrea Bocelli will sing for Pope Leo XIV July 29 alongside a children’s choir of more than 160 members from the Holy Land, Uganda and Italy. The performance was organized by Bocelli’s charitable foundation to take place at the Vatican’s Borgo Laudato Si’ gardens in Castel Gandolfo.
Young American missionaries get papal shoutout during summer in Rome July 24, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News When Jack Lebon, 15, returns to his Texas high school in the fall, he will be able to share a summer experience few can match: a handshake with Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo takes road trip to mountainside shrines during his summer vacation July 23, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV took a road trip pilgrimage with his older brother to the scenic mountainside Sanctuary of the Most Holy Trinity in Vallepietra July 22 before stopping to pray in the Holy Cave in Subiaco, where a young St. Benedict sought refuge from the corruption of Rome in the early sixth century.
