At the general audience on May 27, Pope Leo XIV urged priests to respect the “norms of the liturgy” and not to make changes to the Mass “on their own initiative,” in order to avoid…
Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday created a commission to identify solutions for long-term sustainability at the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, a major hospital complex founded by St. Pio of Pietrelcina and directly overseen by the…
Daniel Ibanez/EWTN NewsPope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims during the general audience in St. Peter’s Square, May 27, 2026. The pope urged priests “to respect the texts and norms of the liturgy” during a reflection…
A priest turned himself in to police after being accused of stealing about $160,000 from a parish, according to officials with the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. Father Richard Storey “voluntarily surrendered to the…
Pope Leo XIV speaks to members of the European Parliament’s Intergroup on Demography during an audience on May 25, 2026, at the Vatican. The pope told the group that the key to solving demographic issues…
Carl Bloch, “The Mocking of Christ” (Detail), 1880, Ordrup Church, Denmark COMMENTARY: In his long-awaited first encyclical, the Holy Father insists that the fullest truth about man is revealed ultimately and most completely in the…
Arrest records show that Father Storey was booked on May 23 and posted $250,000 bond. Father Richard Storey turned himself in after being charged with theft from a Kansas City, Kansas, parish, according to the…
Opus DeiPedro Ballester was “always happy and thinking of others even in the midst of terrible suffering,” according to Jack Valero from Opus Dei, who is helping to promote Ballester’s cause for sainthood. The Diocese…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV on Monday personally attended the presentation of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, in an uncustomary gesture. Upon his arrival at the event, held in the Vaticanʼs Synod Hall, he…
Pope Leo XIV speaks about the “huge transformation” of artificial intelligence at the presentation of his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on May 25, 2026, in the Synod Hall of the Vatican. The Pope expressed particular…