Speaking during his General Audience on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV urged people to pray for the people in Ukraine, “who are being severely tested by the consequences of the bombings which have resumed, also striking…
“In talking to my pastors, it became crystal clear that there really is a crisis right now regarding mental health and emotional well-being, and in a special way for young people,” Bishop Michael Burbidge of…
Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN NewsPope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience at the Vatican on Feb. 4, 2026. At his general audience, Pope Leo XIV appealed for renewed nuclear arms-control efforts and asked Catholics to proclaim…
Odd AndersenThe illuminated Olympic rings are seen on the roof the Olympic stadium with mountain peaks behind it in Cortina d’Ampezzo, northern Italy prior to the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Games, on February 2, 2026.…
The Vatican has published the schedule of liturgies that Pope Leo XIV will celebrate in February, March, and the beginning of April, a period that includes the start of Lent and the preparation for Holy…
ROME – Anyone who has ever been in a serious relationship will probably identify with the old and by now cliché adage, “it’s not what you said, it’s how you said it” at the end…
ROME — The appeals phase of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” resumed Tuesday after a pair of setbacks for the pope’s prosecutors that could have big repercussions on the outcome of the troubled case. The…
Melissa Hartog illustration/National Catholic RegisterL to R: Archbishops Michael McGovern of Omaha, Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee and Robert Casey of Cincinnati and New York Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks, with Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich in the middle…
Photo courtesy of LegatusRetired CIA Chief of Counterintelligence James Olson (left) at the Legatus Summit at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Santa Barbara, California, on Jan. 31, 2026, with Ken Darnell, vice president of strategic development…
ROME — Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics, after a breakaway group attached to the traditional Latin Mass announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent in a…