‘Over This, Your White Grave’: Read the Poem Pope John Paul II Wrote for the Mother He Lost
John Paul II as a child with his parents, Emilia and Karol Wojtyła How the loss of a mother, ‘soul of the home,’ shaped the heart of a pope …
Pope Leo thanks Spain for letting hantavirus-stricken MV Hondius cruise ship get to Canary Islands
TENERIFE, Canary Islands — The first plane carrying passengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship left Spain’s Canary Islands on Sunday for Madrid, where they will be taken to a military hospital. Spanish nationals were the first…
Pope Leo XIV Prays for Sahel Victims
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the recitation of the Regina Caeli on May 10, 2026. | Credit: Vatican Media At the Regina Caeli, the pope also…
Card. Poola: Leonine era continues under sign of peace
Cardinal Anthony Poola sent greetings to Pope Leo XIV on Friday, the first anniversary of the pontiff’s election, expressing gratitude for a year “marked by serenity, spiritual depth, and evangelical clarity.” In a message shared…
Meet the Trump surgeon general nominee who kept her baby despite an unplanned pregnancy as a teen
President Donald Trumpʼs nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Nicole Saphier, kept her son, Nick, when she became pregnant unexpectedly at age 17. Saphier, a radiologist who specializes in treating breast cancer, earned her medical degree…
Church in Colombia begins training digital missionaries to faithfully proclaim the Gospel
With the aim of proclaiming the Gospel on the so-called “digital continent,” the Colombian Bishops’ Conference launched the Digital Missionaries School last weekend. The school is an initiative of the bishops’ Department of Communications in…
Bishop urges global intervention against execution of 200 Ethiopian youth in Saudi Arabia
Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin of the Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia has appealed to the international community to urgently intervene and halt the planned execution of 200 Ethiopian nationals reportedly facing the death penalty in…
Card. Kikuchi on what’s coming in the Leonine pontificate
One of Asia’s most senior churchmen has told Crux Now he expects the coming year to be one in which the faithful and the world will really get to know Pope Leo XIV. The 67-year-old…
The World Needs Fulton Sheen
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen speaks at a news conference on Oct. 26, 1966, after Pope Paul VI named him bishop of Rochester, New York. COMMENTARY: Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who was born on May 8, 1895,…
Leo XIV makes anniversary visit to Pompeii, Naples in footsteps of sainted local hero
Pope Leo XIV marked the first anniversary of his election to the papacy on Friday, with a pastoral visit to the southern Italian cities of Pompeii and Naples. At the Tempio della Carità – the…