9+ hour, 20+ min ago  (765+ words) Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See's role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican's record a "wound in Christian memory....

2+ hour, 43+ min ago  (1001+ words) Pope Leo called for artificial intelligence to be "disarmed" in his first papal encyclical, urging major regulation to protect against potential risks, including war and economic dislocation. Amna Nawaz discussed more with Christopher Hale, who writes "Letters from Leo" on…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (380+ words) Anthropic has billed itself as the AI company that puts safety and risk-mitigation at the forefront of its research. As a result, the presence of Anthropic's Christopher Olah at the Vatican is significant, and suggests that the U. S. pope's position on…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1514+ words) New Book Explores the Life of Pope Leo XIV, the First American Pope The biography looks at the pope's life, influences and first months leading the Catholic Church. Clip: 5/12/2026 | 7m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC It's been a year since Illinois…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (526+ words) A free press can only endure when it is supported. Sustaining rigorous, trustworthy reporting takes people who believe it matters. The June 6-12 visit will first bring Leo to Madrid for meetings with the government, parliament and King Felipe VI and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (710+ words) A gift today is a direct investment in journalism that belongs to you and keeps everyone informed. Pope Leo XIV announced Friday the appointment of the Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, an auxiliary bishop in Washington, D. C. , as the new leader of…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago  (836+ words) The encounter between Christianity's two most famous religious figures would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, given the divisions between their two churches over women's ordination in general and Mullally's appointment in particular. Leo acknowledged that "new problems…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (899+ words) Leo also asserted that countries have the right to control their borders but mustn't treat migrants worse than "animals," and lamented that the church's morality teaching is often reduced to sexual issues. After a trip that was dominated by the…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (908+ words) A powerful rainstorm drenched the Malabo sports stadium and the estimated 30, 000 people who gathered before dawn for Leo's farewell liturgy. But the deluge let up before Leo arrived in his covered popemobile for a romp through the deafening crowd. Leo…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (1099+ words) Pope Leo XIV's 11-day tour of four African nations gave the usually reserved pontiff a global platform to speak out, in sometimes explosive terms, about problems on the continent, while preaching peace and uprightness in a world battered by war....