While many political observers have been assessing Pope Leo XIV’s first year in the papal office, leading African prelates are warning against such assessments and instead focusing on the place and role of the papacy…
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…
VATICAN CITY — Newly crowned Serie A champion Inter Milan received a blessing from Pope Leo XIV on Saturday. The players, staff and directors had a private audience with Leo at the Vatican before Inter’s…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…