‘Doctrinal clarity, strong governance, thoughtful appointments’ among Weigel’s hopes for new papacy May 12, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News OSV News asked George Weigel — the American biographer of the pope from Poland, St. John Paul II — about what the first few days of papacy tell us about Pope Leo XIV, how as an American missionary he can influence the world and about his own hopes for the papacy.
Pope Leo prays for vocations, for peace and for mothers on Mother’s Day May 11, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday recitation of the “Regina Coeli” prayer and urged all Catholics to pray for vocations, especially to the priesthood and religious life.
Pope Leo: A pope is nothing more than a humble servant May 11, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic community is alive, beautiful and strong, and it is up to its pastors to protect and nourish the faithful and to help bring God’s hope to the whole world, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope Leo to inaugurate his papacy May 18; a look at his May calendar May 9, 2025By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo XVI will officially inaugurate his papacy with Mass in St. Peter’s Square May 18.
New pope calls for Christian witness in world that finds faith ‘absurd’ May 9, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Where Christians are “mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied” is where the Catholic Church’s “missionary outreach is most desperately needed,” Pope Leo XIV said in his first homily as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.
Full text of first public homily of Pope Leo XIV May 9, 2025By OSV News OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Full text of the first public homily of Pope Leo XIV, given at a Mass for the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel May 9, 2025.
Midwest Augustinians celebrate in Pope Leo XIV a brother ‘rooted in the spirit of St. Augustine’ May 9, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News The head of the Midwestern Augustinian province that Pope Leo XIV once led called the new pope’s election “moment of profound significance — not only as the first pope from the United States, but also as the first Augustinian to be elected pontiff.”
Pope Leo XIV: A biographical timeline May 9, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News Key dates in the life and ministry of Pope Leo XIV, elected May 8, 2025, as the 266th successor to St. Peter.
First American pope: White Sox fan, Villanova grad, Peru missionary, Vatican leader May 9, 2025By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Vatican, World News Pope Leo, 69, formerly Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, is the first pope from the United States. He assumes the chair of Peter with multifaceted leadership experience: He grew up in the Midwest, graduated from Augustinian-run Villanova University in 1977 with a math degree, ministered as a bishop in Peru, and led the Vatican dicastery that helps appoint, form and retire bishops.
Baltimore-area Catholics pray for new pope, express excitement for his leadership May 8, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, Local News, News, Vatican Many of the approximately 100 people who gathered at a cathedral adorned with yellow and white papal bunting expressed shock at the election of an American pope. But there was also a sense of excitement.
Trump, U.S political leaders congratulate Pope Leo XIV: ‘A great honor for our country’ May 8, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News President Donald Trump on May 8 congratulated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, who was elected the 267th pope the same day, taking the name Pope Leo XIV.
Pope Leo XIV: Peacemaker and openness in an historic name May 8, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News Even before he stepped out on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and spoke May 8, Pope Leo XIV’s choice of a name was a powerful statement.
