Pope Leo speaks to the faithful as he visits the island of Lampedusa, Italy, a key entry point for migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea, during a pastoral trip July 4, 2026. LAMPEDUSA, ITALY (OSV ...

Today, the Vatican has taken a stricter, more inflexible position than those taken under Popes Benedict XVI and Francis.

The hostility to immigrants enabled by yesterday’s Supreme Court decisions marks a profound moral failure in the American ...

Catholics in colonial New England kept a low profile, and for long stretches there was effectively no public Catholic life at ...

Independence Hall is a mere 15-minute walk from St. Augustine’s Church, the first church run by the Augustinian order in the ...

Catholic life throughout the region was often sustained quietly through family networks, informal gathering places, and the ...

We must not resign ourselves to violence. God continues to open paths of reconciliation and peace throughout history. We have ...

As the second consistory of the year, the pope is making good on the cardinals' requests for further collaboration, which the ...

Catholic life in the early Upper South developed unevenly, with bold promise in Maryland and little visible presence ...

The Vatican has rejected a request from the German bishops for special permission to allow lay men and women to preach ...

Well aware that some cardinals still have serious reservations about synodality and its implementation, Pope Leo explained ...

On June 29, Pope Leo XIV will preside over Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, bless the pallia and confer them upon the new ...