Vatican document affirming scriptural understanding of Mary and her role prompts reflection November 20, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Marian Devotion, News, Vatican, World News A new Vatican document on Mary affirms a Scripture-based understanding of her person and her pivotal role in salvation history, according to several experts — although some lament the document failed to confirm two key titles popularly associated with her over the centuries, while commending renewed attention to the role of Mary.
Pope calls treatment of migrants in U.S. ‘extremely disrespectful’ November 19, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Vatican, World News Insisting that the dignity of all people, including immigrants, must be respected, Pope Leo XIV asked U.S. Catholics and “people of goodwill” to read and listen to the U.S. bishops’ recent pastoral message on the topic.
Vying for Leo November 19, 2025By Michael R. Heinlein OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican Six months into his papacy, as Pope Leo’s activities have increased, so has the scrutiny observing his every move. We parse every word, every audience, every movement, and in so doing, we betray our fractured existence.
Believers must care for the poor and creation, pope says November 19, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, News, Vatican, World News As the U.N. Climate Conference continued in Brazil, the pope dedicated his weekly general audience talk Nov. 19 to explaining how Jesus’ death and resurrection should lead Christians to “a spirituality of integral ecology,” which seeks the good of the human person and the planet.
Pope encourages religious orders to perfect safeguarding systems November 18, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News Religious orders of men and women must continue perfecting their efforts to ensure the safety and integrity of every child, every person they meet and every member of their order, Pope Leo XIV said.
‘Creation is crying out,’ pope says in new message to COP30 November 18, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Environment, News, Vatican, World News While “creation is crying out” and millions of people suffer the effects of climate change and pollution, politicians are failing to act, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope asks priests in diplomatic corps to be witnesses of hope November 18, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, Vocations, World News The priests who staff nunciatures and other Vatican diplomatic missions around the world must be priests first and diplomats second, Pope Leo XIV told them.
Synod study groups release ‘interim’ reports as most continue working November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Synodality, Vatican, World News The study groups Pope Francis had established to provide an in-depth reflection on controversial, complex or “emerging” questions raised during the Synod of Bishops on synodality have published interim reports.
Pope assures the poor they are loved by God, calls on governments to act November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Before joining hundreds of people for lunch, Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the Jubilee of the Poor and prayed that all Christians would share “the love of God, which welcomes, binds up wounds, forgives, consoles and heals.”
Pope asks big names in film to continue to challenge, inspire, give hope November 17, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Meeting an international cast of film directors and actors, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the power of cinema to help people “contemplate and understand life, to recount its greatness and fragility and to portray the longing for infinity.”
Pope returns Indigenous artifacts from Vatican Museums to Canada November 16, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV fulfilled a promise made by the late Pope Francis to return to Canada’s Indigenous communities artifacts — including an Inuit kayak, masks, moccasins and etchings — that have been held by the Vatican for more than 100 years.
Nuncio in Britain says pope won’t overturn restrictions on old Latin Mass November 14, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV does not intend to overturn Pope Francis’ limits on celebrating the traditional Latin Mass but will grant two-year dispensations to bishops who ask, a nuncio said.
