LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Pope Leo XIV challenged Angola’s leaders to break the “cycle of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries as he arrived in the southern African country on Saturday with a message of encouragement for its long-suffering people.<

Vatican City: (NCR) Pope Leo XIV has named a trio of Catholic academics and the head of a church-based center for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border to be among the new members of the Vatican's office on Catholic social doctrine.

The Vatican announced the pope's new appointments

Vatican City: (National Catholic Register) On the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Pope Leo XIV met last week with some of his eighth grade classmates from St. Mary of the Assumption lower school in south Chicago, where he grew up.

Of the 82 eighth graders with whom he atten

Vatican City: (National Catholic Reporter) As the U.S. and Israel-Iran war enters its fourth week, and amid a deep humanitarian crisis throughout the region, Pope Leo XIV appealed during his Sunday Angelus prayer March 22: "Persevere in prayer, so that hostilities may cease and paths of peac

ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV will travel a total of more than 11,000 miles on 18 flights across four African countries in April on a 10-day trip that highlights peace efforts, the works of mercy, and the Catholic Church’s vibrant presence on the continent.

The Vatican rele

Pakistan: Sardar Mushtaq Gill, founder of LEAD Ministries, has welcomed the recommendation made by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) urging the United States Department of State to redesignate Pakistan as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to severe a

London: The Middle East is witnessing an unprecedented escalation of violence following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. The attacks have triggered widespread retaliatory strikes across the region, hitting cities, military bases

Vatican City: (By Justin McLellan, National Catholic Reporter) Whereas Lent recalls Jesus' time of prayer and fasting in the desert, for a pope it is anything but solitary.

The liturgical season instead opens 40 days of public appearances, liturgies and highly symbolic gestures that

Peru: (Catholic National Register) The current bishop of Chiclayo, Edinson Farfán Córdova, greets Pope Leo XIV during the 2026 ad limina visit. (photo: Diocese of Chiclayo / Diocese of Chiclayo)

Pope Leo XIV could return to Chiclayo — the diocese where he served as b