Pope Leo XIV received Bob Dylan, an encounter rich with history, between a pope shaped by Augustine and the Bible, and a songwriter who has spoken Scripture for sixty years.

Pope Leo XIV’s longest journey yet, to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru, is above all a homecoming to the land where he spent two decades, undertaken weeks after cancer surgery.

Even as pope, Leo XIV submitted his vote-by-mail ballot for the US midterms, a gesture the Vatican presented as fidelity to the citizen’s duty of participation.

Reading a line from Gaudium et Spes, Pope Leo XIV insists faith must engage its culture, not oppose it, and rejects Christianity wielded as nationalist identity or apocalyptic withdrawal.

Drawing on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical, Cardinal Parolin warns that handing justice to opaque AI systems empties law of accountability

Matter is gift, form and memory, the pope told the world’s museum directors, steering clear of both contempt for things and their idolatry.

News of Pope Leo XIV’s cancer diagnosis circled the globe within hours, even reaching governments that reject his authority, a measure of how a peace-calling pope has become a geopolitical figure.

Marking a decade of “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Leo XIV asked the world’s bishops to confront a growing gap between how intimacy is lived and the Christian vision of marriage, centering fragility and discernment.