5+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1067+ words) Posted March 29, 2026 11:07 am. Jerusalem's major holy sites, including the church, are closed because of the ongoing Iran war, as the city has come under frequent fire from Iranian missiles. The Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem called the police decision "a manifestly…...

11+ hour, 29+ min ago  (590+ words) Posted March 29, 2026 4:43 am. The celebration began with a procession of cardinals, bishops, priests and laypeople walking into the square carrying olive branches and palm fronds, some intricately braided. They stopped at the central obelisk, where Leo delivered an opening prayer,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (709+ words) Posted March 14, 2026 12:31 pm. The Vatican said Leo would be joined by his closest aides in the apartment, located on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace and overlooking St. Peter's Square. The move and the consolidation of Leo's team, suggests…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1177+ words) Posted February 2, 2026 7:04 am. As a teenager in southern India, Susai Jesu led 4:30 a.m. prayer services in his small Catholic village before the farmers went into the fields. He directed the choir, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood....

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (448+ words) Posted January 11, 2026 5:34 am. Later, speaking to the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square, the pontiff offered his blessing to all infants receiving the sacrament of baptism in these days, "in particular those born in difficult conditions of health or external…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (312+ words) Posted January 1, 2026 6:57 am. Leo celebrated a New Year's Day Mass in St. Peter's Basilica and then delivered a special noontime prayer from his studio overlooking the piazza, which was full of pilgrims and tourists on the bright, chilly day. Leo…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago  (415+ words) Posted December 31, 2025 12:21 pm. Leo presided over a New Year's Eve vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica, giving thanks for the 2025 Holy Year that brought millions of pilgrims to Rome in the once-every-quarter-century celebration of Christianity. Leo will officially close out…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (498+ words) Posted December 25, 2025 6:12 am. Leo led the Christmas Day Mass from the central altar beneath the balustrade of St. Peter's Basilica, adorned with floral garlands and clusters of red poinsettias. White flowers were set at the feet of a statue of…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (799+ words) Posted December 22, 2025 6:27 am. "Is it possible to be friends in the Roman Curia?" Leo asked the cardinals and bishops who make up the Curia, as the Holy See bureaucracy is known. "To have relationships of genuine fraternal friendship?" The fact…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (419+ words) Posted December 20, 2025 7:26 am. The consistory, as such gatherings are called, will be held Jan. 7-8, immediately following the Jan. 6 conclusion of the 2025 Holy Year, a once-every-quarter century celebration of Christianity. Leo's first few months as pope have been dominated by fulfilling…...