Prominent political and religious leaders from around the world expressed well wishes and prayers for Pope Leo XIV after he announced he would undergo surgery to remove a lung nodule.

Pope Leo XIV has posted on his official X account that the Catholic Church holds the death penalty to be “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.”

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão told the Vatican bishops’ meeting on the family Oct. 8 about the success a parish in his archdiocese in India has had with pastoral family visits and phone-free family evenings.

Pope Leo XIV announced that he will undergo surgery after doctors discovered a nodule, or lump, in his lungs.

On the third day of a weeklong Vatican meeting on marriage and family Oct. 9, Catholic bishops grappled with a trend that worries many Church leaders: young couples choosing to live together rather than wed.

(OSV News) — In accepting her dual appointment as head of the Vatican’s missionary network and as adjunct secretary at the Dicastery for Evangelization, Sister Mary Teresa Barron said it was clear the Church prioritized lived missionary experience over theological acumen. In an interview with OSV News Oct. 9, the 57-year-old Irish nun said she […]

Pursuing a higher education that values human intelligence can help counter the many “false teachers” exploiting people’s deep yearning for truth, faith and meaning, Pope Leo XIV said.

Forty years after St. John Paul II gathered leaders of the world’s religions in Assisi for a landmark day of prayer for peace, Pope Leo XIV will return to the city Oct. 27 for the closing day of the 2026 interreligious meeting.

Pope Leo XIV opened a Vatican meeting of the world’s bishops’ conference presidents and the heads of Eastern Catholic churches marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia” Oct. 7, saying “the beauty and fragility of families” today will be at the heart of the week’s discussions.

The aim of World Mission Sunday (Oct. 18), established 100 years ago by Pope Pius XI, has “borne fruit in my own life,” said Pope Leo XIV.