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ClaudetteArmenian Apostolic Patriarch Aram I Joins Pope Leo XIV at General Audience
This source doesn’t meet the campaign focus. Its main subject is Pope Leo XIV’s general audience and his new series of catecheses on the liturgy. The Armenian Apostolic...
Pope Francis Adds Coptic Orthodox Martyrs to Roman Martyrology
Pope Francis announced on Thursday that 21 Coptic Orthodox martyrs killed by ISIS in 2015 will be added to the Roman Martyrology, the Catholic Church’s official list of...
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Leader Gives Pope Leo XIV List of Ukrainian Prisoners Held by Russia
On May 15, 2025, Pope Leo XIV received His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv, in the Library of the Apostolic Palace, according to Vatican News. Shevchuk...
Ethiopian Archbishop Tesfaselassie Tadesse Receives Pallium at Ceremony in Vatican City, Holy See
The solemn ceremony of conferring the Pallium on Archbishop Abune Tesfaselassie Tadesse Gebresilasie was held on 27 October 2026 at the Pontifical Ethiopian College in the Vatican. Cardinal...
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Leaders Begin Two-Day Meeting With Pope Francis in Vatican City, Holy See
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) wants to become a Patriarchate, its head, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, said on Friday, 28 June, in an interview with the Religious...
Cardinal Says Vatican Covered Up Sexual Abuse by Legionaries of Christ Founder Marcial Maciel
According to a 2018 report in the Spanish newspaper El País, the Vatican had documents about the sexual abuse of seminarians by Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries...
Worldwide Catholic Population Rises in 2023 as Priest and Seminarian Numbers Fall
The Vatican news agency Fides presented statistics on the Catholic Church worldwide ahead of the 99th World Mission Day, which was to be celebrated on Sunday, Oct. 19,...
Catholic Church Reviews Just-War Theory as Critics Debate Its Future
For more than 1,000 years, the Catholic Church has used its just-war theory to set moral limits on when nations may go to war and how their armies...
Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally praises Pope Leo after private Vatican meeting
The archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, has praised Pope Leo for speaking “powerfully about the many injustices” in the world. The remark was seen as an apparent reference...
