One year ago today: The pope from the peripheries died on Easter Monday April 21, 2026By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News One year ago today, Pope Francis died at 7:35 a.m., April 21, 2025.
12 quotes from Pope Leo’s first year as pope April 21, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News As the one-year anniversary of Pope Leo XIV’s election to the papacy approaches, here is a selection of 12 quotes from the new pontiff on various topics, looking back over the 12 months since he became pope May 8, 2025.
‘Christ hears the cry of the people’ in the face of evil, pope says at Mass near Angola’s largest diamond mine April 21, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV traveled to the heart of Angola’s diamond country April 20, urging the tens of thousands gathered at the papal Mass in the country’s northeast to trust that “Christ hears the cry of the people” in the face of evil.
The Pope and the President: Means and Ends April 21, 2026By Father Thomas Ulshafer, P.S.S. Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary When President Donald Trump criticized Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social on April 12, he sidestepped the substance of the pope’s message.
ANALYSIS: Does a new survey show potential for a confession revival? Some say yes, but others not so sure April 21, 2026By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, World News A new poll certainly tells the Catholic Church what it wants to hear: That 67% of Catholics who haven’t been to confession in the past year are open to returning, with roughly half expressing a clear desire to return.
Old lines, new thoughts: Writing out a Gospel by hand April 20, 2026By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Because my Lent took a nosedive about two-thirds of the way through, I am still immersed in a project I undertook in order to get my spiritual groove back: Writing out the Gospel of Mark, in longhand.
Radio Interview: Learn more about Sagrada Familia Basilica April 20, 2026By Catholic Review Staff OSV News Filed Under: CR Radio, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Christopher Gunty speaks with architect Mauricio Cortés Sierra, one of the lead designers at Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia. He shares how Antoni Gaudí’s original vision continues to shape the basilica more than 140 years after construction began.
Pope Leo donates $100K to CRS clean water project in El Salvador April 20, 2026By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV has donated $100,000 to provide access to clean water in El Salvador, supporting a program launched by the papal nuncio to that nation and by Catholic Relief Services, the official humanitarian and development agency of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
‘The heart of the Church’ is ‘alive and beating’: Pope Leo XIV leads rosary at beloved Muxima Marian shrine in Angola April 20, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV led tens of thousands of Angolan Catholics in praying the rosary April 19 at southern Africa’s most visited Catholic shrine, calling the pilgrimage site a place where “the heart of the Church” is “alive and beating.”
Pope Francis remembered in Buenos Aires as ‘guiding light’ for Argentine Church April 20, 2026By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Books, Feature, News, Vatican, World News María Rico ambled along a busy Buenos Aires boulevard as part of a caravan through Barrio Flores — the childhood neighbourhood of the late Pope Francis — to commemorate the first anniversary of the Argentine pontiff’s death.
The Eucharist can ‘rekindle lost hope,’ Pope Leo says at Sunday Mass in Angola April 19, 2026By Courtney Mares OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV celebrated an outdoor Mass for an estimated 100,000 Catholics in Angola on Sunday, April 19, urging the faithful of a nation still bearing the scars of a decades-long civil war to find renewed hope in the Eucharist and the Risen Christ.
Donuts After Mass, Please, and Make Them Delicious April 19, 2026By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window When Seminarian Andrew Chase was assigned to St. Joseph’s in Cockeysville, he learned he would be responsible for the donuts and coffee after Mass.
