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Pope Leo XIV to hold next consistory in June, hopes for annual meetings with cardinals
15+ hour, 48+ min ago (250+ words) By'Edward Pentin for CNA January 8, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print Jan 8, 2026 / 19:18 pm Pope Leo XIV will be hosting a second consistory of cardinals at the end of June and wants to hold such meetings annually. The Vatican made the…...
‘Pray with the Pope’: Leo XIV proposes monthly prayer for the challenges of the world
19+ hour, 42+ min ago (892+ words) January 8, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print Jan 8, 2026 / 17:40 pm (CNA). The Vatican's Dicastery for Communication has launched a new prayer campaign in which Pope Leo XIV invites Catholics to pray with him for the great challenges facing the world. The…...
Pope Leo XIV to cardinals: ‘We gather not to promote personal or group agendas’
20+ hour, 19+ min ago (1006+ words) January 8, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print Jan 8, 2026 / 17:04 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on cardinals to experience the extraordinary consistory as a time of spiritual discernment in unity and warned against the temptation to put personal interests…...
Opinion: Why do young priests leave?
21+ hour, 39+ min ago (1275+ words) January 8, 2026 Peter M.J. Stravinskas The Dispatch 0 Print Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the Vatican II documents,Optatam TotiusandPresbyterorum Ordinis, both dealing with the Sacred Priesthood, Pope Leo penned an apostolic letter titled'A Fidelity That Generates the Future." Although an overtly positive…...
This is Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of January
22+ hour, 5+ min ago (464+ words) January 8, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print Jan 8, 2026 / 14:17 pm Pope Leo XIV's prayer intention for the month of January is for the faithful to pray with the word of God. In a video released Jan. 7 on X, the Holy Father…...
Liturgy sidestepped at Pope Leo XIV’s first consistory
23+ hour, 31+ min ago (1713+ words) January 8, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print Jan 8, 2026 / 10:52 am (CNA). ROME " Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway…...
Late vocations program in Austria allows priest to keep his current job
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (1112+ words) January 8, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print Jan 8, 2026 / 07:00 am (CNA). The Catholic Church in Austria has launched a new formation program to promote late vocations, aimed at men between 45 and 60 years old who are currently employed and can complete the…...
After ICE shooting of U.S. citizen, Minneapolis archbishop pleads for prayers, calm
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (512+ words) January 7, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print Jan 7, 2026 / 19:32 pm Saint Paul and Minneapolis Archbishop Bernard Hebda on Jan. 7 pleaded for prayers and calm after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. Officials said…...
As consistory opens, Pope Leo XIV tells cardinals ‘I am here to listen’
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (991+ words) By'David Ramos for CNA January 7, 2026 Catholic News Agency News Briefs 0 Print The extraordinary consistory of cardinals is taking place from Jan 7-8, 2026. Credit: Vatican Media Jan 7, 2026 / 19:12 pm In his opening'address'at the extraordinary consistory convened for Jan. 78, Pope Leo XIV assured the…...
Making sense of the Leonine pontificate: An interview with Christopher R. Altieri
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (1885+ words) I think the keys to understanding him will be his thoroughly Augustinian anthropology, already evident in his speeches and homilies, and in his equally Augustinian sense of history" January 7, 2026 Carl E. Olson Books, Features 0 Print To understand the depth of the…...