Pope Leo XIV urged young Europeans in Assisi to embrace the world rather than defend it, calling definitive …
Pope Leo XIV urged young Europeans in Assisi to embrace the world rather than defend it, calling definitive …
Pope Leo’s call for disarming technology is not a call to reject it, but to strip it of …
A Pope who happens to be American, whose own family holds both slaves and slave owners, turns toward …
Pope Leo XIV calls young people across three continents to embrace inner restlessness as a “holy rebellion” toward …
Pope Leo XIV made an unannounced visit to Montecassino while his envoys were working in war-torn Ukraine, underscoring …
From Augustine to Pope Leo XIV, the Church’s stance on “just war” has evolved. Today, modern papal teaching …
The Vatican has rejected suggestions that Pope Leo XIV speaks merely as a head of state on issues …
As two breakaway traditionalist groups deepen their separation from Rome by consecrating bishops without mandate, the Vatican signals …
Pope Leo XIV’s plans for summer retreat offer a profound lesson: true vacation is not an escape from …
By visiting the migrant threshold of Lampedusa on the Fourth of July, the first American pope, Leo, powerfully …
Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro is the undersecretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See. He is a member of the board of directors of Georgetown University and a full member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon.
The worldwide collapse in birth rates is not chiefly economic but anthropological, revealing societies that no longer expect anything genuinely new, with loneliness its statistical twin.
Across three distinct addresses, Pope Leo XIV defined true freedom as grounded in individual conscience, human dignity, and communal care, warning against the counterfeits of power, algorithmic control, and military force.
As religion returns as a tool of power from Washington to Moscow to Delhi, faith risks becoming an identity weapon; the Church stays effective only by remaining free and unenlistable.
As Pope Leo XIV and Cardinal Pizzaballa marked the Assumption, the Vatican kept naming the West Bank's quiet violence plainly, where governments and the news cycle fall silent.
At a youth gathering in Assisi, Pope Leo XIV challenged young Europeans to reject fear-driven tribalism and hesitation, urging them to embrace the world through authentic human connection and courageous, definitive life choices.
Pope Leo XIV’s 60th World Day of Peace theme emphasizes the urgent need to disarm technology and restore human political responsibility in an automated world.
Pope Leo XIV's late-July remarks on his American roots and the Ceuta crisis reframe migration itself: stability without justice becomes containment, peace without dignity more than silence at a checkpoint, and every border a test of whom a society will see.
Pope Leo XIV calls on young people across Portugal, Peru, and Brazil to channel their inner restlessness into service, authentic holiness, and disciplined digital engagement in the lead-up to World Youth Day 2027.
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