4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (245+ words) Representatives of the UGCC presented Pope Leo XIV with a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt (vyshyvanka – Ed.) featuring a map of all regions of Ukraine. The meeting took place at the Vatican at the end of the Pope’s general audience. The…...

5+ day, 2+ 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, 22+ hour ago   (446+ words) "Having no contact with the regime and no guarantees for my freedom, I'll only find out what's planned for me when I get to the border. But while I'm afraid like everyone else, I can't let my life be determined…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (516+ words) As Britain’s new ambassador to the Holy See presented her credentials to the Pope, the Pontiff demonstrated once again that the liturgy wars are very much still alive, whilst over in Russia the Vatican’s foreign minister urged an end to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (804+ words) On August 26, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, met at the UGCC Patriarchal Center in Kyiv with Yevheniia Kalugina, the wife of the late Oleksiy Yukov, leader of the “Platsdarm” search and rescue team. During the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (230+ words) The Dicastery for the Service of Charity responded positively to a request for aid from the Ukrainian village of Berestia, where women volunteer to prepare meals for soldiers on the front lines. “I didn’t expect them to place so much…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (801+ words) Russia, Vatican Talks: Finance, Religious Ministry & Ukraine Negotiations: Why This Matters – Analysis russia's pivot to asia The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met with the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (294+ words) The Holy See’s foreign affairs chief is in Moscow for four days of meetings with Russian officials, the Moscow Patriarchate and the local Catholic community, a month after his visit to Kyiv. The meeting is part of a four-day visit,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (396+ words) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister, speak in front of St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 20, 2026. Archbishop Gallagher arrived in Moscow Aug. 24, 2026, for a four-day visit to Russia, the Vatican's Secretariat of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (323+ words) OSV News, OSV News Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican's secretary for relations with states and international organizations, arrived in Moscow Aug. 24 for a four-day visit, with meetings scheduled with Russian government, Orthodox and Catholic leaders. The visit, announced by the…...