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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies on the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Oct. 26, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Vatican City, Oct 26, 2025 / 08:10 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the closing of the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies, part of the Church’s wider Jubilee of Hope in 2025.
PHOTOS: Cardinal Burke celebrates Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica
Pilgrims participate in a Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, celebrated by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke at the Papal Basilica of Saint Peter, the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025 / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Vatican City, Oct 25, 2025 / 14:00 pm (CNA).
Burke celebrated the Solemn Pontifical Mass, a high Latin Mass said by a bishop, at the Altar of the Chair on the second day of the Oct. 24–26 Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage.
Pope Leo XIV gives advice for living with hope in a ‘troubled era’
Pope Leo XIV claps with pilgrims during an audience for the Jubilee of Hope in St. Peter's Square on Oct. 25, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Oct 25, 2025 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV said the key to living in a difficult time, when the Church’s teachings are often challenged, is to embrace the hope that is “not knowing.”
Pope Leo XIV: There’s no template for synodality across all countries
Pope Leo XIV sits next to Cardinal Mario Grech, general secretary of the Vatican's synod office, during the jubilee of synod teams and participatory bodies in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall on Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 25, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV spoke about synodality during the jubilee of synodal teams and participatory bodies Oct. 24-26, part of the Church’s wider Jubilee of Hope in 2025.
Pope Leo XIV to John Paul II Institute: Your mission is to speak and live the truth
Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during an audience with the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Vatican on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 / 13:44 pm (CNA).
“Your specific mission concerns the search for and common witness to the truth,” Pope Leo XIV said Oct. 24 at the Vatican.
Pope Leo XIV approves decrees for 11 martyrs killed by Nazi Germany, communists
The sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. / Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 / 09:44 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV approved the canonizations of 20th-century European martyrs killed “in hatred of the faith” under Nazi and communist regimes.
Consultant to European bishops: Attacks on places of worship are ‘pandemic’
José Luis Bazán, legal adviser to the Commission of Episcopal Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) in Brussels. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News
Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
According to Aid to the Church in Need, in 2023, France recorded nearly 1,000 attacks on churches, and more than 600 acts of vandalism were documented in Greece.
Pope Leo XIV encourages Order of the Holy Sepulchre in its mission in the Holy Land
Pope Leo XIV addresses the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre at the Vatican on Oct. 23, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 23, 2025 / 17:34 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV thanked the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem for its humble service to the communities of the Holy Land.
Pope Leo XIV criticizes pharmaceutical industry’s role in scourge of opioid addiction
Pope Leo XIV meets with participants of the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Oct. 23, 2025, in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 23, 2025 / 15:26 pm (CNA).
In a meeting with participants of the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements, the pope directly spoke out against “unbridled consumerism” and its negative impacts.
Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III make history with first joint prayer since Reformation
Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III walk together in the Sistine Chapel during a historic meeting that included a prayer service at the Vatican, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 23, 2025 / 09:34 am (CNA).
History was made in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III prayed side by side, the first such meeting since the Protestant Reformation.
Pope Leo XIV: Sadness in life can be healed through Christ
Pope Leo XIV greets a baby during his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 11:24 am (CNA).
Continuing his jubilee catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” the Holy Father said the mystery of Christ’s resurrection can “change one’s outlook on the world.”
Cardinal, Vatican journalists condemn threat to free press after assaults on journalists
Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrates a Mass for peace in Ukraine on Nov. 17, 2022, in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 10:54 am (CNA).
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and an organization of Vatican-accredited journalists spoke out in support of a free press this week.
Pope Leo XIV to name St. John Henry Newman a patron saint of Catholic education
St. John Henry Newman near the end of his life, in 1887. / Credit: Babouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 09:07 am (CNA).
The Holy Father will designate Newman as an official co-patron saint of education, together with St. Thomas Aquinas.
5 ways St. John Paul II changed the Catholic Church forever
In 1984, Pope John Paul II met in Rome with 300,000 young people from all over the world in a meeting that laid the foundations for today’s World Youth Day. / Credit: Gregorini Demetrio, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Vatican City, Oct 22, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
St. John Paul II was the second-longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate. He was the first non-Italian pontiff since Pope Adrian VI in 1523.
Fact check: Did the Vatican Library open a prayer room for Muslims?
A view of the Vatican Apostolic Library in 2021. / Credit: Franco Origlia/Getty Images
CNA Staff, Oct 21, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA).
Reports circulating in media outlets and on social media in October 2025 allege that the Vatican has opened a prayer room for Muslims in the Apostolic Library.
Aid to the Church in Need: Authoritarian regimes are greatest threat to religious freedom
Cardinal Pietro Parolin speaks at the release of Aid to the Church in Need’s “Religious Freedom in the World Report 2025” at the Vatican on Oct. 21, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Vatican City, Oct 21, 2025 / 14:07 pm (CNA).
Authoritarian regimes are among the main drivers of religious discrimination and persecution in 52 countries, according to an Aid to the Church in Need report.
How to convey the serenity of a martyr? The challenge of painting Peter To Rot’s portrait
Artist Raúl Berzosa works on the portrait of St. Peter To Rot. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Raúl Berzosa
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 21, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).
The Vatican commissioned Spanish Catholic artist Raúl Berzosa to paint the official portrait of St. Peter To Rot, who was canonized Oct. 19.
Pope Leo XIV condemns usury, a grave sin that speaks to the corruption of the human heart
Pope Leo XIV meets the president of the Italian Anti-Usury Council, Luciano Gualzetti, on Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 15:53 pm (CNA).
On Oct. 18, the Holy Father received the National Anti-Usury Council of Italy in the Vatican Apostolic Palace.
Pope Leo XIV: Lives of the newly canonized saints are ‘luminous signs of hope’
Seven new saints were canonized on Oct. 19, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:53 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Monday highlighted the life testimony of the saints canonized Sunday, Oct. 19, as “luminous signs of hope” for today’s Catholics.
Political tensions surface amid celebrations honoring Venezuela’s 2 new saints
Venezualans celebate their country’s two new saints during the canonization ceremony on Oct. 19, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News
Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 14:23 pm (CNA).
Underlying political tensions have surfaced among Venezuelans in Rome celebrating the recent canonization of the country’s first two saints.
Longtime Vatican official and Italian archbishop Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli dies at 86
Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli, archbishop emeritus of Ancona-Osimo, in the northern Italian region of Marche, has died at the age of 86 after a long illness. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/EWTN News
ACI Stampa, Oct 20, 2025 / 13:23 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Edoardo Menichelli was metropolitan archbishop of Ancona-Osimo in Italy from 2004 to 2017.
Pope Leo XIV meets clergy abuse survivors at Vatican
Ending Clergy Abuse board members and survivors hold a press conference after meeting with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20, 2025 in Rome. / Credit: Simone Padovani/Getty Images
Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 12:21 pm (CNA).
Four victims and two advocates from Ending Clergy Abuse had an hourlong conversation with Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 20.
Pope Leo XIV appoints Boston auxiliary Mark O’Connell to lead Diocese of Albany, New York
Bishop Mark O’Connell. / Credit: Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Boston
Vatican City, Oct 20, 2025 / 09:44 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Monday named Bishop Mark O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of Boston, the next bishop of the Diocese of Albany, New York.
Pope Leo XIV canonizes 7 new saints, including first from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea
A Venezuelan priest who concelebrated the canonization Mass with Pope Leo XIV celebrates his country’s first saints in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 19, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN
Vatican City, Oct 19, 2025 / 08:15 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV declared seven new saints before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square at the canonization Mass on Oct. 19.
Pope Leo XIV hails Roma, Sinti, and Travelers’ faith amid marginalization
Pope Leo XIV hugs a man during the Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 13:10 pm (CNA).
About 4,000 pilgrims from more than 70 countries in Europe and beyond took part in the Vatican’s Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers.
Worldwide Catholic population up, vocations down
Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd at the Jubilee of Youth on Aug. 3, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 18, 2025 / 11:48 am (CNA).
On the occasion of World Mission Day on Oct. 19, Vatican news agency Fides presented statistics that offer a general overview of the Catholic Church worldwide.
Pope Leo XIV says first canonized couple give example of ‘marriage as a path to holiness’
Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin. / Credit: Public domain
Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).
In a message marking the 10th anniversary of the canonization of St. Louis and Zélie Martin on Oct. 18, Pope Leo XIV said their lives show “marriage as a path to holiness.”
Meet the 7 saints Pope Leo XIV will canonize on Oct. 19
Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the Rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan considered the “doctor of the poor.” Banners of the new saints are on display on St. Peter's Basilica for all to see in St. Peter's Square. / Credit: Courtney Mares / CNA
Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday, Oct. 19.
Pope Leo XIV to grieving father: ‘Death never has the last word’
Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered for the Mass for the Jubilee of Catechists on Sept. 28, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 17, 2025 / 13:38 pm (CNA).
The pontiff penned a letter to Francesco, a father of four, who wrote to the Holy Father about the death 18 years ago of his 12-year-old son, Domenico Maria.
Pope Leo XIV asks Catholics in Russia to be an example of love, brotherhood, and respect
Pope Leo XIV greets Catholic pilgrims from Russia during an audience in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Oct. 17, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 17, 2025 / 12:42 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV asked a group of Catholic pilgrims from Russia, in Rome on a jubilee pilgrimage, to be an example of love and brotherhood upon their return home.
King Charles and Pope Leo XIV to pray together in historic ecumenical moment at Vatican
Britain’s King Charles III stands with Britain’s Princess Michael of Kent (left); Britain’s Prince Michael of Kent (second left); Britain’s Lord Frederick Windsor; Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales; Britain’s Catherine, Princess of Wales; Britain’s Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh; and Britain’s Princess Anne, Princess Royal, following a Requiem Mass for the late Katharine, Duchess of Kent, at Westminster Cathedral in London on Sept. 16, 2025. / Credit: JORDAN PETTITT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Vatican City, Oct 17, 2025 / 09:58 am (CNA).
King Charles III will join in ecumenical prayer presided over by Pope Leo XIV for the care of creation inside the Sistine Chapel on Oct. 23.
Theologians, scholars who deny the virginity of Mary a ‘challenge’ for the Church
The president of the Pontifical International Marian Academy (PAMI), Franciscan friar Stefano Cecchin, OFM. / Credit: Victoria Cardiel/EWTN News
Vatican City, Oct 17, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Some Protestants and even groups within the Catholic Church, both openly and indirectly, deny the dogma of the virginity of Mary.
Pope Leo XIV appoints Cardinal Schönborn’s successor to lead the Archdiocese of Vienna
Cardinal Christoph Schönborn (left) shakes hands with now Archbishop-elect of Vienna Josef Grünwidl at the time of his appointment as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Vienna on Jan. 22, 2025, and on Oct. 17, 2025. / Credit: Archdiocese of Vienna / Stephan Schönlaub
Rome Newsroom, Oct 17, 2025 / 06:02 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Josef Grünwidl to succeed Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP, as head of the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria.
Jimmy Lai’s wife, daughter meet Pope Leo XIV in Rome ahead of trial verdict
Teresa Lai greets Pope Leo XIV after the general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
CNA Staff, Oct 16, 2025 / 12:48 pm (CNA).
Teresa and Claire Lai greeted Leo after the general audience on Wednesday, appearing in the black attire traditionally worn by women greeting the pope.
In second report, Vatican minor commission urges listening, reparations for abuse victims
Bishop Luis Manuel Alí Herrera, the secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, addresses media during a press conference releasing the commission’s second annual report on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Vatican City, Oct 16, 2025 / 11:18 am (CNA).
Archbishop Thibault Verny of Chambéry spoke of the report’s efforts to emphasize the significance of “walking alongside victims and survivors.”
Leo XIV recognizes ‘light and shadows’ in the Church’s treatment of Indigenous peoples
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 16, 2025 / 10:48 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV sent a message to the Networks of Indigenous Peoples and the Network of Indian Theology Theologians on Oct. 16.
Pope to UN Food and Agriculture Organization: ‘Slogans do not lift people out of poverty’
Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Oct. 16, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 16, 2025 / 09:26 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV visited the Rome headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on Thursday.
Pope Leo XIV explains why Christian hope is better than optimism
Pope Leo XIV waves from the popemobile during an Oct. 15, 2025 public audience in St. Peter's Square. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.
Rome Newsroom, Oct 15, 2025 / 11:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV spoke about Christian hope to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square during his weekly general audience on Oct. 15, 2025.
Pope Leo XIV introduces significant reform to Holy See’s investments
The Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), popularly known as the Vatican Bank. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 15, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Last week, Pope Leo XIV introduced a significant reform to the financial architecture of the Holy See.
Pope Leo XIV meets Italian President Sergio Mattarella in first state visit to Italy
Pope Leo XIV meets Italian President Sergio Mattarella during his first state visit to the country that surrounds Vatican City State on Oct. 14, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Oct 14, 2025 / 12:06 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV met with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on Tuesday.
Pope Leo XIV sends antibiotics to children in Gaza
Pope Leo XIV greets a baby at his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Vatican City, Oct 14, 2025 / 08:41 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has sent 5,000 doses of antibiotics to Gaza following the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace deal.
Cardinal presides over act of reparation in St. Peter’s following desecration of altar
The main altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, which was desecrated on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Jorge Royan (CC BY-SA 3.0)
ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 13, 2025 / 17:43 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Mauro Gambetti presided over a penitential rite of reparation at the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica following a serious act of desecration on Oct. 10.
World Mission Day: Leo XIV calls for supporting those who bring Christ to ends of earth
Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality on Oct. 12, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 13, 2025 / 14:12 pm (CNA).
In a video released Oct. 13, Pope Leo XIV said World Mission Day is an opportunity for the entire Catholic Church to unite in prayer for missionaries.
Vatican appoints judges to decide Rupnik sexual abuse case
Father Marko Rupnik, SJ, in an interview with EWTN in 2020. / Credit: EWTN
Vatican City, Oct 13, 2025 / 12:23 pm (CNA).
The judges, appointed Oct. 9, do not hold any position in the Roman Curia to ensure their autonomy and independence in the penal judicial procedure.
Pope Leo XIV: Authentic Marian spirituality brings God’s tenderness into the Church
Through the example of Mary, Pope Leo on Oct. 12, 2025, in St. Peter’s Square said the Church can see the “revolutionary nature of love and tenderness” and its impact on the events of history as well as the everyday lives of each individual. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 12, 2025 / 10:30 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square was attended by 30,000 pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality.
Man desecrates altar of St. Peter’s Basilica
A view of St. Peter’s Basilica during the Mass for the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, with Bernini’s baldachin and the papal altar decorated with white flowers, Dec. 8, 2024. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
CNA Staff, Oct 11, 2025 / 16:28 pm (CNA).
The man climbed the altar and “urinated under the stunned gaze of hundreds of tourists,” according to the Roman newspaper Corriere Della Sera.
Thousands of pilgrims join Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Square to pray the rosary for peace
Pope Leo XIV stands before the original Our Lady of Fatima statue at a Marian vigil in St. Peter’s Square, Rome, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA
Vatican City, Oct 11, 2025 / 15:00 pm (CNA).
Before the statue of Our Lady of Fátima, which was brought to Rome from Portugal, the pope entrusted believers to the Mother of God to guide the Church.
Pope Leo XIV: Right to religious freedom is not optional but essential
Pope Leo XIV meets with members of Aid to the Church in Need at the Vatican on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 10, 2025 / 13:21 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Friday received members of Aid to the Church in Need, a pontifical foundation that supports the Catholic Church in its evangelizing work.
Pope Leo XIV to consecrated men and women: ‘The Church needs you’
Pope Leo XIV greets men and women religious during an audience for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Oct. 10, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 10, 2025 / 09:33 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV said the Church and the world need men and women consecrated to Jesus to reveal God’s presence and his “great plan of peace and salvation” for humanity.
Pope Leo XIV urges consecrated persons to be ‘hungry for holiness’
Pope Leo XIV greets those gathered for the Jubilee of Consecrated Life Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 9, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Oct 9, 2025 / 15:01 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday celebrated Mass in St. Peter’s Square on the occasion of the Jubilee of Consecrated Life.