Catholic New Agency: Daily News

Recruits joined the Vatican’s Pontifical Swiss Guard in a swearing-in ceremony presided over by Pope Leo XIV. The new guards suited up in distinctive yellow, blue and red uniforms and pledged to defend and serve the pope.

Pope Leo XIV surprised 13 priests from southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel, by joining a video call from Rome on Wednesday, telling them they were in his prayers and that he hoped peace would soon prevail along the tense frontier.

Pope Leo XIV will inaugurate the soaring central tower of Barcelona’s famed Sagrada Familia basilica when he visits Spain next month in a weeklong trip that will also take him to a migrant reception center in the Canary Islands, the Vatican said Wednesday.

As U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to meet with Pope Leo XIV, President Donald Trump has ramped up his opposition to the first U.S. citizen to take over the Catholic Church.

Rajasthan police have arrested four Catholic men, charged them under various sections of India’s penal code after around a dozen members of a right-wing Hindu mob disrupted Mass celebrations, accusing the lay faithful of religious conversion.