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Pope Leo XIV prays the Angelus prayer on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 8, 2025 / 13:30 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV led the Angelus prayer Dec. 8 from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
‘Peace is possible,’ Pope Leo XIV says after visits to Turkey and Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV addresses pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the Angelus on Dec. 7, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 7, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said his apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon showed that “peace is possible,” pointing to renewed steps toward Christian unity.
You heard of the popemobile, now meet the papal lawn mower
Pope Leo XIV receives an electric lawn mower from Czech manufacturer Swardman during a general audience in mid-November 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Swardman
Rome Newsroom, Dec 7, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV received the white Electra 2.0 mower during a general audience in mid-November, a gift from Czech manufacturer Swardman.
Christ Pratt to release documentary on tomb of St. Peter
Chris Pratt speaks at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. / Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
CNA Staff, Dec 6, 2025 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
The film, produced by Vatican Media, the Fabric of St. Peter, and AF Films, will be released in 2026 for the 400th anniversary of the inauguration and dedication of the basilica.
New Slovak Virgin Mary mosaic highlights spiritual bonds between Slovakia and Vatican
Archbishop Bernard Bober of Košice, president of the Slovak Bishops’ Conference, blesses the new mosaic of Our Lady of Sorrows in the Vatican Gardens at a ceremony attended by Slovak President Peter Pellegrini and Vatican officials on Dec. 5, 2025. / Credit: Bohumil Petrík
EWTN News, Dec 6, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Among other bishops and diplomats, two cardinals took part: the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Re, and Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti.
5 things to know and share about St. Nicholas
St. Nicholas, by Jaroslav Čermák (1831-1878). / Credit: Galerie Art Praha via Wikimedia (public domain)
Vatican City, Dec 6, 2025 / 04:00 am (CNA).
How much do you know about the man whose feast falls on Dec. 6?
Pope Leo XIV among the most viewed and searched on Wikipedia and Google in 2025
Pope Leo XIV. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 5, 2025 / 15:38 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV’s profile is among the most viewed pages on the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia and was one of the most searched terms on Google in 2025.
Michael Bublé calls meeting Pope Leo XIV ‘one of the greatest moments of my life’
Singer Michael Bublé called meeting Pope Leo XIV on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, “one of the greatest moments of my life,” adding that as he prepares to headline the Vatican’s annual Christmas concert for the poor, he hopes his example will encourage more people to speak openly about their faith. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 5, 2025 / 15:08 pm (CNA).
Michael Bublé called meeting Pope Leo XIV on Friday “one of the greatest moments of my life” as he prepares to headline the Vatican’s Christmas concert for the poor.
How can AI serve the common good and not just the powerful? Pope Leo XIV responds
Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation and the Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities on Dec. 5, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 5, 2025 / 14:38 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV reflected Dec. 5 at the Vatican on the challenges posed by artificial intelligence.
Leo XIV eliminates commission for donations to Holy See created by Pope Francis
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ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2025 / 16:07 pm (CNA).
The Vatican announced on Dec. 4 a new decision by Pope Leo XIV regarding fundraising for the Holy See.
Vatican commission rejects female diaconate, although without a ‘definitive judgment’
St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. / Credit: Xosema (CC BY-SA 4.0)
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 4, 2025 / 13:37 pm (CNA).
The Vatican published on Dec. 4 the summary of the work carried out by the commissions studying the possibility of admitting women to the diaconate.
The kitchen friar’s book that inspires Pope Leo’s spirituality
Pope Leo XIV speaks with reporters on his flight from Beirut to Rome on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Elias Turk/EWTN
CNA Staff, Dec 3, 2025 / 18:21 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo has said that “The Practice of the Presence of God” by a 17th-century Carmelite friar named Brother Lawrence is a book that helps expain his own spirituality.
Powerful moments from Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Turkey and Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV interacts with a baby before celebrating Mass in Beirut, Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
CNA Staff, Dec 2, 2025 / 17:34 pm (CNA).
Here are some of the most powerful moments from Pope Leo XIV’s first international trip.
Pope Leo reveals Mideast peace talks with Trump, Netanyahu, other regional players
Pope Leo XIV speaks with reporters on his flight from Beirut to Rome on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Elias Turk/EWTN
Rome, Italy, Dec 2, 2025 / 11:30 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV said he has already begun “in a very small way” conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Official Vatican documents can now be drafted in languages other than Latin
Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Nov. 19, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Dec 2, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
For the first time, the regulations stipulate that “the curial institutions will, as a general rule, draft their documents in Latin or in another language.”
UPDATED: Pope Leo XIV calls Lebanon to stand up, be a home of justice and fraternity
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass for an estimated 150,000 people at Beirut’s Waterfront in Lebanon on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Marwan Semaan/ACI MENA
Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 2, 2025 / 04:52 am (CNA).
In a city still marked by the sounds of the 2024 escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to rise above violence and division.
Pope Leo prays at Beirut blast site, meets families seeking justice
Pope Leo XIV prays in silence at the site of the 2020 port explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: AIGAV Pool
Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 2, 2025 / 03:15 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV paused on the final morning of his trip to Lebanon before the ruins of the Beirut port explosion, praying in silence and placing a wreath in memory of victims.
Pope Leo urges Lebanon to place the sick at the center of society
Pope Leo XIV speaks to patients and caregivers at the De La Croix Hospital in Jal el Dib, Lebanon, on Dec. 2, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Jal el Dib, Lebanon, Dec 2, 2025 / 02:07 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV told hospital patients and caregivers in Lebanon that he had come to “where Jesus dwells,” adding that Christ is present “in you who are ill.”
The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus of $1.86 million
St. Peter’s Square during the declaration of St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the Church in November 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News
Vatican City, Dec 1, 2025 / 16:51 pm (CNA).
The Holy See closed the 2024 fiscal year with a surplus of 1.6 million euros ($1.86 million), according to the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy.
Aid to the Church in Need welcomes appointment of Cardinal Koch as its new president
Cardinal Kurt Koch during an interview with EWTN News. / Credit: EWTN News
ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 1, 2025 / 16:21 pm (CNA).
The executive director of Aid to the Church in Need, Regina Lynch, thanked Pope Leo XIV for appointing Cardinal Kurt Koch as the new president of the pontifical foundation.
Pope Leo to Lebanese youth: Love, not retaliation, is the real answer to evil
Pope Leo XIV greets a young mother and her child outside of the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Bkerke, Lebanon, Dec 1, 2025 / 12:34 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV met Lebanese youth in the square in front of the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch in Bkerké on the second day of his apostolic visit to Lebanon.
Pope Leo tells Lebanese religious leaders unity and peace are possible
Pope Leo XIV in Harissa, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Beirut, Lebanon, Dec 1, 2025 / 10:35 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV told Lebanon’s religious leaders on Monday that their country remains a sign to the world that fear and prejudice do not have the final word.
Pope Leo offers Lebanon a way to hope ‘even when surrounded by the sound of weapons’
Pope Leo XIV addressed Lebanon’s bishops, clergy, and pastoral workers at Harissa, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Elias Turk/EWTN
Harissa, Lebanon, Dec 1, 2025 / 05:32 am (CNA).
Pope Leo told Lebanon’s bishops, clergy, and pastoral workers on Monday that Christians can remain steadfast in hope “even when surrounded by the sound of weapons.”
Pope Leo entrusts Lebanon to St. Charbel’s intercession, prays at his tomb
Pope Leo XIV reflects on the enduring message of St. Charbel Makhlouf at the hermit’s tomb at the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya, Lebanon, on Dec. 1, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Annaya, Lebanon, Dec 1, 2025 / 03:37 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV began his second day in Lebanon on Monday with a deeply symbolic pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Charbel Makhlouf.
Pope Leo XIV calls Lebanon to tenacity, hope, and reconciliation
Pope Leo XIV speaks at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Lebanon, on Nov. 30, 2025. / Vatican Media
Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 30, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon’s leaders to embrace tenacity, dialogue, and a renewed commitment to the common good during an address on Sunday.
Pope Leo says Erdogan talks focused on Gaza and Ukraine, sees Turkish role in peace efforts
Pope Leo XIV talks to reporters during his flight to Lebanon on Nov. 30, 2025. / Credit: Elias Turk/EWTN News
Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 30, 2025 / 10:15 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV said Sunday that he discussed both the Gaza war and the conflict in Ukraine directly with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Pope Leo XIV arrives in Lebanon, bringing a message of peace to a nation scarred by war
Pope Leo XIV arrives in Lebanon on November 30, 2025. / Vatican Media
Beirut, Lebanon, Nov 30, 2025 / 08:32 am (CNA).
The sky over Lebanon opened Sunday not to warplanes but to the aircraft carrying Pope Leo XIV.
UPDATED: Pope Leo XIV honors ‘courageous Christian witness of the Armenian people’ in Istanbul
Pope Leo XIV meets with Armenian Patriarch Sahak II Mashalian at the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 30, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 30, 2025 / 04:50 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV dedicated the final morning of his visit to Turkey on Sunday to strengthening ties with the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Pope Leo XIV, at Mass in Turkey, calls for Catholic, ecumenical, and interreligious unity
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass at the Volkswagen Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 29, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 29, 2025 / 11:20 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV marked the start of Advent on Saturday with an appeal for unity and peace.
Pope Leo XIV and Bartholomew I ‘deeply alarmed’ by global tensions
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople sign a joint declaration at the Palace of the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 29, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 29, 2025 / 10:07 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople said on Saturday they are “deeply alarmed by the current international situation.”
Pope Leo XIV visits emblematic Turkish mosque in sign of fraternity with Muslims
Pope Leo XIV visits the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 29, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 29, 2025 / 03:10 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV started his third day in Turkey on Saturday with a visit to the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul.
Council of Nicaea: 1,700 years of Christian unity amid division
The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. / Credit: Giovanni Guerra (1544-1618), Cesare Nebbia (1534-1614) e aiuti, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 28, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).
The first ecumenical council, known as the Council of Nicaea, is still accepted as authoritative by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and many Protestants.
Pope Leo XIV marks Nicaea anniversary, urges Christians to overcome divisions
Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at an ecumenical event marking the 1,700th anniversary of Nicene Creed, in Iznik, Turkey, on Nov. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot
Iznik, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 08:05 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV commemorated the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea on Friday in the Turkish city historically known as the birthplace of the Nicene Creed.
Pope Leo shares ‘secret of Christian charity’ with Little Sisters of the Poor
Pope Leo XIV visits a care home for the elderly run by a community of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 03:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV visited the Nursing Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Istanbul on Friday.
Pope Leo reminds Turkish Catholic minority of the ‘logic of littleness’
Pope Leo XIV encourages Catholic clergy, religious brothers and sisters, and lay pastoral workers to see the Catholic community’s small size as a strength during an encounter at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Istanbul, Turkey, on Nov. 28, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 28, 2025 / 01:55 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey’s small Catholic community Friday to rediscover what he called the Gospel’s “logic of littleness.”
Vatican’s 2025 Christmas tree installed in St. Peter’s Square
Workers erect the Vatican’s 2025 Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Nov 27, 2025 / 14:30 pm (CNA).
A towering Christmas tree now stands in the center of St. Peter’s Square after the spruce arrived at the Vatican on Thursday morning.
Pies and a baseball bat: The gifts Pope Leo XIV received on the papal flight to Turkey
Pope Leo XIV receives a Thanksgiving pie on board the papal flight to Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Claudio Lavanga
Rome Newsroom, Nov 27, 2025 / 09:25 am (CNA).
“To the Americans here, happy Thanksgiving!” Leo said as he greeted about 80 journalists aboard the chartered ITA Airways flight to Ankara on Thursday morning.
Pope Leo’s prayer intention for December: For Christians in areas of war or conflict
Pope Leo XIV speaks from the Vatican, Nov. 21, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 27, 2025 / 06:28 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for December is for Christians living amid war or conflict, especially in the Middle East.
Pope Leo XIV to focus on Christian unity, relations with Islam in Turkey and Lebanon
Pope Leo XIV blesses rosaries for EWTN News’ Elias Turk aboard the papal plane to Ankara, Turkey, on Nov. 27, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Elias Turk/EWTN News
Vatican City, Nov 27, 2025 / 04:57 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Turkey on Thursday on his first international apostolic journey.
9 historic religious sites Pope Leo XIV will visit in Turkey, Lebanon
Image of St. John XXIII above the entrance of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Istanbul. / Credit: Souhail Lawand / ACI MENA
Vatican City, Nov 26, 2025 / 15:15 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon holds both spiritual and historical significance for the Catholic Church and its relations with the Orthodox Church as well as Islam.
Vatican City: How the world's smallest state is governed
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta, Secretary of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts. / Credit: "EWTN Noticias"/Screenshot
Vatican City, Nov 26, 2025 / 11:15 am (CNA).
Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta detailed how the tiny Vatican City State is governed, how its institutions operate, and what role the Holy See plays in the world.
Pope Leo centralizes oversight of St. Peter’s and St. Mary Major basilicas
The main altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. / Credit: Jorge Royan (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Vatican City, Nov 26, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Promulgated this month, the decree abrogates two earlier such decrees concerning the Fabric of St. Peter’s and the Chapter of St. Mary Major.
Pope to give 2025 Ratzinger Prize to conductor Riccardo Muti at Christmas concert
Conductor Riccardo Muti has been awarded the 2025 Ratzinger Prize. / Credit: Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy
Vatican City, Nov 25, 2025 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Riccardo Muti will conduct a concert at the Vatican in Pope Leo XIV’s honor on Dec. 12.
Vatican defends monogamy against polygamy, polyamory
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Vatican City, Nov 25, 2025 / 06:00 am (CNA).
“One Flesh: In Praise of Monogamy” was published in Italian by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on Nov. 25.
Pope Leo XIV: Hope does not mean having all the answers but trusting in God
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims from Latvia on Nov. 24, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 24, 2025 / 15:38 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV stated that hope “does not mean having all the answers, but rather it calls us to put our trust in God.”
Pope Leo XIV urges Christians to move beyond outdated theological disputes
Pope Leo XIV receives Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople at the Vatican on May 30, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media
Vatican City, Nov 23, 2025 / 12:29 pm (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV has called on Christians to rediscover together the faith professed at the Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago.
New EWTN docuseries commemorates 100th anniversary of Christ the King
Aidan Gallagher, director of EWTN Ireland, speaks at the premiere of “The Kingship of Christ” at the Vatican on Nov. 18, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/EWTN News
CNA Staff, Nov 23, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
Marking the 100th anniversary of the feast of Christ the King, which this year falls on Nov. 23, EWTN has released “The Kingship of Christ.”
Pope Leo XIV warns against ‘false mercy’ in marriage annulment proceedings
Pope Leo XIV holds an audience with the Roman Rota on Nov. 21, 2025, at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 22, 2025 / 10:00 am (CNA).
In a firm call to avoid “false mercy” in marriage annulment proceedings, Pope Leo XIV reminded that compassion cannot disregard the truth.
Pope Leo XIV visits Augustinian nuns he has known for years
Pope Leo XIV meets with the Augustinian nuns of Montefalco on Nov. 20, 2025, in Italy. / Credit: Vatican Media
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 22, 2025 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Pope Leo XIV had already been to the convent when he served as superior of the Order of St. Augustine, and on Nov. 20, he returned as pope.
New book by Pope Leo XIV: Human fraternity is ‘the antidote against all extremism’
The Holy Father in a new Italian-language book states that faith “unites us beyond our personalities, our cultural and geographical origins.” / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News
Vatican City, Nov 22, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA).
“The Power of the Gospel” is the title of a new Italian-language book by Pope Leo XIV.