Commission tells pope universal safeguarding guidelines almost ready June 5, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors hopes to deliver a “Universal Guidelines Framework for Safeguarding” to Pope Leo XIV later this year, the commission said.
Council of Nicaea anniversary is call to Christian unity, speakers say June 5, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News The Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago recognized that Christian unity had to be based on a common faith and should be demonstrated by a common celebration of Easter, the most sacred feast of the Christian year, said speakers at a Rome conference.
Vatican office must be place of faith, charity, not ambition, pope says June 5, 2025By Carol Glatz OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Because of its universal character and outlook, the Catholic Church can be a driving force for building communion between the church of Rome and the local churches as well as fostering friendly relationships in the world community, Pope Leo XIV told members of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
The digital pontiff: Pope Leo XIV makes AI a top issue June 5, 2025By Kimberly Heatherington OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Vatican, World News While the world is still just getting to know him, first impressions appear to hint that Pope Leo XIV doesn’t seem like a pontiff to say, “I told you so.”
Pope sets consistory to consider declaring eight new saints June 4, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News Although Pope Francis already set Aug. 3 as the date to declare the sainthood of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope Leo XIV will hold a meeting with cardinals to approve his canonization and that of seven other people.
God wants to help people discover their worth, dignity, pope says June 4, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News God loves every person and wants to help everyone discover their inherent value and dignity, especially those who feel unworthy or unappreciated, Pope Leo XIV said.
Petrocentrism: a problem? June 4, 2025By George Weigel Syndicated Columnist Filed Under: Commentary, The Catholic Difference, Vatican An interest in life at the Church’s administrative center is fine; an obsession with it, fueled by ill-informed blogs and social media, is not.
Pope’s prayer intention for June: That the world grow in compassion June 3, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for June, a month devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is “that the world might grow in compassion.”
Pope asks French bishops for ‘new missionary impetus’ June 3, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Saints, Vatican, World News In a letter marking the 100th anniversary of the canonization of three French saints — John Eudes, John Vianney and Thérèse of Lisieux — Pope Leo prayed that the anniversary celebrations “will not merely evoke nostalgia for a past that might seem bygone, but that they will awaken hope and give rise to a new missionary impetus.”
Pope, Romanian bishops, Jewish officials pay tribute to martyred bishop June 2, 2025By Cindy Wooden OSV News Filed Under: Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, News, Vatican, World News Blessed Iuliu Hossu, the Romanian Greek Catholic bishop of Cluj-Gherla, was named a cardinal “in pectore” — secretly — by St. Paul VI in 1969.
Reach out to families; let them know God loves them, pope says June 2, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church, its ministers and its members must find new ways to reach out to and welcome families who are distant from the church and have no understanding of how much God loves them, Pope Leo XIV said.
A family’s love grounded in Christ is sign of peace for world, pope says June 2, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Families are the cradle of the future of humanity, Pope Leo XIV said during a Mass concluding the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly.
