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Their interpretation can be confusing, says the DDF, and detrimental to ecumenism By Hannah Brockhaus (CNA)/ITV staff Pope Leo celebrates Mass November 3 with an image of Mary in the background. (photo: Grzegorz Galazka) The Vatican’s doctrinal office said Tuesday the titles of “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix” are not appropriate ways to describe Mary’s [...]
During the Mass on the Solemnity of All Saints on November 1, all the culmination of the Jubilee of the World of Education, Pope Leo XIV proclaimed St. John Henry Newman a "Doctor of the CHurch" and a Co-Patron, with St. Thomas Aquinas, of education By Alessandro Di Bussolo (Vatican News) The ceremony naming Cardinal [...]
"The blanket bombing has stopped," says Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, but "ordinary life has changed very little" By Andrea Tornielli and Francesco Sabatinelli (Vatican News) Gaza remained under Israeli bombardment as of late November — despite the fact that the implementation of the peace plan orchestrated by the US officially “took effect” October [...]
Interview with the first bishop to be consecrated by Pope Leo, Polish Archbishop Miroslaw Wachowski, new papal nuncio to Iraq. He was consecrated on October 26 in Rome By Anna Artymiak On October 26, Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Basilica carried out the episcopal consecration of Miroslaw Stanisław Wachowski, whom Leo [...]
The Holy Father visited Christian-minority Turkey, site of the COuncil of Nicaea 1700 years ago, and Lebanon, where he became the first Pope to pray at the tomb of St. Charbel By Robert Moynihan and Anna Artymiak Iznik, Turkey, November 28, 2025, Ecumenical Prayer Meeting near the archaeological excavations of the ancient Basilica of [...]
By Andrew Rabel Vatican City, September 7,2025. in St. Peter’s Square, Leo XIV greets Fr. Juan Gutierrez, assistant pastor at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Church in Los Angeles. He received a miraculous healing through the intercession of Pier Giorgio Frassati, whose canonization he was there to witness. Fr. Juan Gutierrez, 38, is assistant pastor [...]
By Pope Leo XIV Canonizations of the Blessed: Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis Homily of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV St. Peter's Square - September 7, 2025 (Impromptu remarks before Holy Mass and the Rite of Canonization:) Good morning, everyone! Happy Sunday and welcome! Thank you! Brothers and sisters, today is a wonderful feast for [...]
By Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Carlo Acutis was born May 3, 1991, in London, where his parents were working. Just a few months later, his parents, Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, moved to Milan. As a teenager, Carlo was diagnosed with leukemia. He offered his sufferings for Pope Benedict XVI and for the Church, saying “I [...]
By The Frassati Fellowship, New York City St. Pier Giorgio Frassati is a saint for the modern world, and especially for young people. Born in 1901 in Turin, Italy, his time on earth was short—only 24 years—but he filled it passionately with holy living. Pier Giorgio was a model of virtue, a “man of the beatitudes,” [...]
We, too, can make our lives “masterpieces of holiness” like theirs, the Pope tells 80,000 faithful in St. Peter’s By Vatican News Saint Peter’s Square on Sunday, September 7, for the Mass with the canonization of Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis. On the facade of the Basilica are two tapestries depicting the new saints. [...]
