Pope Leo appoints new head of Vatican commission on clergy abuse

Pope Leo on Saturday appointed French Archbishop Thibault Verny as the new head of the Vatican’s commission on clergy sexual abuse, marking his first public move to address a crisis that has severely damaged the credibility of the Roman Catholic...

Con el apoyo del Papa, el Vaticano publicará un documento sobre la fase final del Sínodo

Por Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — Casi cuatro años después de que el Papa Francisco abriera el camino de la Iglesia Católica hacia la sinodalidad — un término que muchos en la Iglesia desconocían — , su sucesor...

Iranian Ambassador to the Vatican asks Pope Leo XIV in letter to defend Khamenei against USA and Israel

(ZENIT News / Rome, 07.07.2025).- In a striking appeal that merges geopolitical tension with interreligious diplomacy, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador to the Holy See, Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari, has written directly to Pope Leo...

American Peruvian Pope Souvenirs Stalled as Vatican Retailers Await Sacred License

With pilgrims flooding Rome for the Jubilee Year, souvenir stands near St. Peter’s Square are stocked with every pope except the one currently leading the Catholic Church. Two months after his election, León XIV’s official image still hasn’t been...

Vatican spokesman: ‘Traditionis custodes’ leak ‘very partial’

Limerick Bishop honoured to be appointed to key Vatican position

All Live95 News [Via Bishop Leahy] He was chosen for his experience in interreligious engagement. A Limerick Bishop has been appointed to a role in the Vatican. In a significant announcement from the Vatican, Pope Leo has appointed Bishop Brendan...

Catholics in Congo honor an anti-corruption martyr newly beatified by the Vatican

GOMA, Congo (AP) — The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and recently… GOMA, Congo (AP) — The remains of a Congolese customs worker who was killed for resisting a bribe and recently beatified by the Vatican...

Vatican offers new guide for implementation phase of Synod

The opening session of the Synod on Synodality in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall in October 2024 (CNA/Daniel Ibanez) A new document from the Synod of Bishops released yesterday is intended “to provide an interpretive key” for bishops to implement...

Pope Leo appoints Bishop of Limerick to key Vatican department 

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Bishop of Limerick as a member of a key Vatican department.Bishop Brendan Leahy has been selected by the pontiff into the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The 65-year-old has been serving as Bishop of Limerick...

Vatican offers new guidance for Synod’s implementation phase

The General Secretariat of the Synod releases “Pathways for the Implementation of the Synod”, which provides “an interpretive key for understanding the implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality.” By Christopher Wells A new document from the...

Vatican’s synod office postpones reports on controversial issues

Vatican City, Jul 7, 2025 / 13:15 pm The Vatican’s synod office has said that final reports from Synod on Synodality study groups — including opinions on women deacons and controversial doctrinal issues such as LGBT inclusion — have been postponed...

Vatican accepts investigation into ‘Little Cajun Saint’ Charlene Richard

Richard Richard The Advocate The Vatican has officially accepted and approved the investigation into the life of Charlene Richard, “the Little Cajun Saint,” according to the Charlene Richard Foundation. Charlene, a Richard native, died from acute...

Vatican Follies

By Jirair Tutunjian In the past year or two Armenians and possibly odars have been baffled and repelled by the late Pope Francis’ inexplicable warm relations with the Azerbaijan dictatorship. There are fewer than 600 Catholics in Azerbaijan. Now...

VATICAN/ANGELUS - Pope Leo: we must ask the “Lord of the harvest” to send out “joyful laborers” to the “mission field”

VaticanMedia Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - The Church and the world “do not need people who fulfill their religious duties as if the faith were merely an external label”. Instead, we need “laborers who are eager to work in the mission field,...

Vatican Announces Pope Leo XIV’s Public Mass Schedule for August and September

On Sunday, Sept. 7, the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, he will celebrate the eagerly awaited Mass for the canonization of Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. The Office for Liturgical Celebrations at the Vatican has announced Pope Leo...

The Pope at Vatican Radio: A Symbolic Visit

The high antennas of Santa Maria di Galeria (northwest of Rome) were particularly honored on this June 19, 2025, and for good reason: it had been 34 years since a pope had visited the shortwave transmission system that allows the voice of the...

Vatican Assembles Independent Tribunal to Try Former Jesuit Marko Rupnik

(ZENIT News / Rome, 07.06.2025).- In a move that underscores the Vatican’s stated commitment to transparency and justice in the face of clerical abuse allegations, the Holy See has formally constituted a canonical tribunal to adjudicate the case...

Vatican: A French bishop succeeds Cardinal O’Malley as head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors

(ZENIT News / Rome, 07.05.2025).- Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry, France, has been appointed by Pope Leo XIV as the new President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, succeeding Cardinal Seán O’Malley, OFM Cap., who...

3 North Americans named to Vatican dicasteries for ecumenism, interreligious dialogue

VATICAN CITY | Three North Americans are among recent appointees to Vatican dicasteries that address issues of ecumenism and interreligious dialogue. On July 3, Pope Leo XIV appointed Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis and Cardinal Frank...

Great power and great fragility: The mysterious weight of the Vatican

In an interview, French journalist Loup Besmond de Senneville talks about the popes, and the Vatican's significant "soft power" combined with "fragility." Stationed in Rome from 2020 to 2024 for the French newspaper La Croix, journalist Loup...