21+ hour, 18+ min ago   (298+ words) ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV commemorated the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, in his Sunday Angelus address, praying for “those who continue to bear the wounds of that tragic day.” Speaking from the window of the Vatican’s…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (998+ words) (OSV News) — Andrzej Poczobut, a Belarusian Catholic dissident and journalist, returned to Belarus Sept. 8, following an audience with Pope Leo XIV and after five months in exile in Poland, saying he was prepared to risk arrest and urging Western Catholics…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (538+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians can help overcome the many distortions and lies about the true dignity of every human person and, in doing so, promote and defend human life, Pope Leo XIV said. “Created in God’s image, through Christ and…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (353+ words) (OSV News) — An Illinois diocese has done away with eulogies during funeral Masses and also visitation of the deceased in the church immediately before the Mass. Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield announced in a video and statement both dated…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (660+ words) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) — The Peruvian city of Callao announced an unusual tribute to Pope Leo XIV ahead of his November visit to the South American country: the largest statue of the pontiff in the world. The 45.9-foot-tall statue…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (518+ words) ROCHESTER, N.Y. (OSV News) — Catholics in the Diocese of Rochester will soon have a physical link to Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. A first-class relic of the famed cleric, who led the Rochester Diocese as its sixth bishop (1966-69), is being given to…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (736+ words) ROME (OSV News) — The International Theological Commission published a new document Sept. 2 calling for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.” The more than 29,000 word text, titled “Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (657+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV began the five-week Season of Creation by calling on the faithful to step away from the frenzy of daily life to “hear the melodious voice of creation,” stressing that “it is not yet too…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (450+ words) (OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s 2026 message for the 11th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation celebrated by the Church on Sept. 1. “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (553+ words) (OSV News) — Each September the Church celebrates the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on Sept. 14, and the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows follows on Sept. 15. The pairing of these celebrations, even in their different levels on…...