Pope’s journey to Africa is chance to rediscover the Church’s African roots, say historians
by(OSV News) — As Pope Leo XIV makes his first apostolic journey to Africa April 13-23, some scholars of the Church’s past are hoping…
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Pope Leo praises witness of Algeria’s Christian martyrs at meeting with local Catholics
byBy Courtney Mares , OSV News ALGIERS (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV honored the memory of Algeria’s Christian martyrs Monday evening, telling the…
Pope Leo responds to Trump: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’
byBy Courtney Mares , OSV News ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ALGIERS (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV said April 13 he has “no…
Pope decries horror, inhumanity that ‘some adults boast of with pride’
byBy Carol Glatz , Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Warning against an increasingly unpredictable and aggressive “delusion of omnipotence” threatening the globe,…
Like the promise of Easter, new baseball season offers chance to begin again
by(OSV News) — Baseball season arrives each year just as Catholics experience the promise of the Easter season. Now, in the early weeks of…
Sermon on the Integrity: Artemis II mission pilot preaches Christ’s command to love on lunar flyby
byBy Gina Christian , OSV News (OSV News) — As the astronauts of NASA’s first crewed lunar flyby in half a century reached their…
Olympic and Paralympic athletes call meeting pope a ‘dream,’ ‘supercool,’ an inspiration
byROME (OSV News) — When Pope Leo XIV met a group of Olympic and Paralympic athletes who competed in the 2026 Milan Cortina Games,…
A life that points beyond the tomb: Mother reflects on son’s faith as sainthood cause opens
by(OSV News) — It was a typical fall day like any other in 2011 when Marco Gallo, a 17-year-old from northern Italy, rode his…
Nuncio to Lebanon says war ‘is not the right path,’ calls for ceasefire
by(OSV News) — As the death toll in Lebanon continues to rise following devastating strikes by the Israeli military, the Vatican’s representative in the…
ANALYSIS: Deepfake popes and bishops abound: Here’s how Church can push back ‘AI attack’ on truth
by(OSV News) — The scene in the video shared over Instagram is charged with confrontation — bulletproof-vested and masked U.S. immigration agents, some of…