Pope meets young people returned to Ukraine from Russia November 21, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Thanks to a handful of countries, including the Vatican, some 1,600 Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia have been reunited with family members in Ukraine.
Christian charity makes faith in Christ credible, pope says November 21, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church’s charitable activity makes the Christian faith credible, Pope Leo XIV said, thanking members of Caritas Internationalis for living out what they believe.
Marriage tribunals do not pit law against pastoral care, pope says November 21, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Theology, law and pastoral concern always go together in the work of Catholic tribunals considering marriage cases, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope to bishops: Be prophets of peace, harmony in your dioceses November 20, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Bishops, News, Vatican, World News Following the example of St. Francis of Assisi, bishops are called to be close to the people in their dioceses and peacemakers in a world marked by division and tension, Pope Leo XIV told the bishops of Italy.
Pope’s first trip to focus on religious harmony, peacemaking November 20, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, News, Vatican, World News By choosing to make his first trip as pope to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV will shine a huge spotlight on the faith Christians share and on the yearnings for peace and prosperity common to all people.
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.
