Pope Leo XIV speaks with the College of Cardinals at the Vatican during an audience May 10, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – One could perhaps summarize Pope Leo XIV’s high profile meeting ...

Pope Leo XIV offered a silent prayer at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion as he wrapped up his first foreign trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Tuesday. He also met with relatives of some of the ...

What Pope Leo’s first international trip tells us about the leader of the Catholic Church. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. When Pope Francis visited the island of Lampedusa in 2013, as ...

The experience was almost surreal. A Chicago priest climbed aboard the iconic popemobile alongside the Holy Father, the two longtime friends traversing the cobblestone plaza of St. Peter’s Square at ...

Pope Leo XIV answers a question from a journalist aboard his flight back to Rome from Lebanon, Dec. 2, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Lola Gomez In a short press conference on the flight from Beirut to Rome ...

Pope Leo XIV waves as he boards a flight back to the Vatican after his visit to Lebanon at Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Credit: Hussein Malla/AP.) Listen ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Christmas since his election by denouncing the suffering of people of Gaza – taking shelter in tents from the “rain, wind and cold” – and by calling for the guns to ...

Pope Leo XIV visits the Sultan Ahmed Mosque, known as the Blue Mosque, during his first apostolic journey, in Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 29, 2025. (OSV News/Kemal Aslan, Reuters) Pope Leo XIV’s first ...

BEIRUT — Pope Leo XIV received a rock star welcome in Lebanon, with thousands of cheering crowds braving the rain for his arrival. As he began his second day in the crisis-hit country, long lines of ...