Vatican sending new signals of openness but limitations in outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics
The Vatican is sending new signals about how it intends to minister to LGBTQ+ Catholics in the Pope Leo XIV era.
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Pope Leo XIV prays for end to ‘fratricidal hatred’ as he celebrates anniversary with visit to Pompeii
Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for political leaders to end the “fratricidal hatred” in the world, as he spent the anniversary of his election in the ancient city of Pompeii.
Pope Leo XIV sought a pastoral role in his first year, but verbal sparring with Donald Trump intervened
President Donald Trump’s continuing criticisms – and Pope Leo’s increasingly bold retorts – overshadowed Friday’s anniversary of Leo’s election.
Marco Rubio makes fence-mending visit to the Vatican after Trump’s broadsides against Pope Leo
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a fence-mending visit to the Vatican on Thursday to underscore strong bilateral ties, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s broadsides against Pope Leo XIV...
President Trump again assails Pope Leo, potentially complicating Marco Rubio’s visit to the Vatican this week
President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Pope Leo XIV, potentially complicating a fence-mending visit that Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to make this week to the Vatican.
Pope urges US and Iran to return to peace talks, condemns capital punishment
Pope Leo XIV urged the United States and Iran to return to talks to end the war Thursday and condemned capital punishment, in a wide-ranging press conference en route home...
Pope calls for justice and closing income gap in Equatorial Guinea Mass with presidential family
Pope Leo XIV urged Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday to work for justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged” as he opened a day drawing attention...
Pope’s visit to Equatorial Guinea is a diplomatic challenge as he closes his Africa trip
Pope Leo XIV arrived Tuesday in Equatorial Guinea for the final leg of his four-nation African journey, a country that presents perhaps the most diplomatically delicate challenge of this trip...
Did Pope Leo find his voice in Africa? Or did America and the world finally hear him?
There is a case to be made that Pope Leo XIV, the careful, reserved, Midwestern Augustinian, found his voice on his epic trip through Africa, blasting the “handful of tyrants”...
Pope Leo prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade
Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an...