Material comfort and a certain complacency can dull the conscience, Pope Leo XIV said during his homily for the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, the Mother of God. The pope was at St. Thomas… Pope Leo warns ‘material comfort’ can dull the conscience
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars around the world as he celebrated a Catholic feast day on the same day as… Pope Leo XIV prays for peace as US-Russia summit over Ukraine war gets underway
St. Maximilian Kolbe (bearded, in front row, center) and his companions in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1936. / Credit: Public Domain/Courtesy of “Maximilian Kolbe: The Saint of Auschwitz”/Sophia Institute Press Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 14, 2025… The Nagasaki mission house built by St. Maximilian Kolbe that survived the atomic bomb
Courtesy photo Marcin Kwasny in Triumph of the Heart (2025). FILM REVIEW: Father Kolbe died a martyr at 47 years old, executed on Aug. 14 and cremated there on Aug. 15, 1941, the Solemnity of… ‘Triumph of the Heart’ Offers Tribute to the Heroic Witness of St. Maximilian Kolbe
RawPixelA family attends Sunday Mass. The study reported the Church is losing 9 out of 10 cradle Catholics, and most are becoming religiously unaffiliated.
null / Credit: Photo Spirit/Shutterstock Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 14, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA). A recent study has found an increase in the number of Americans Catholics leaving the Church. To combat the issue,… Study: 9 in 10 cradle Catholics leaving the Church; experts urge stronger faith community
After arriving in Castel Gandolfo for short mini-break, Pope Leo XIV briefly spoke to reporters about different conflicts taking place in the world. Speaking about Ukraine just days before U.S. President Donald Trump meets with… As he arrives in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo pledges Vatican support for peace efforts
Wikimedia Commons Pope John XXIII presiding the opening Mass of the Second Vatican Council. COMMENTARY: In proclaiming Jesus Christ as the answer to the question that is every human life, Catholicism is, was, and always… Meeting the World to Convert the World
Delegates of the third Pan-African Catholic Congress on Theology, Society, and Pastoral Life gathered in Ivory Coast’s city of Abidjan from Aug. 5–10, 2025. / Credit: Radio Grace Espoir ACI Africa, Aug 13, 2025 /… Pan-African Congress urges support for missionaries facing visa, racism challenges
Pope Leo XIV returned to the Vatican three weeks ago, after a stay at the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, but Rome is pretty much a ghost town between August 13 and whatever Tuesday… Rome empties in August, but the papal in-tray doesn’t