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Today, on the eve of Pope Leo XIV’s departure for his first apostolic journey to Turkey and Lebanon, the Holy Father’s prayer intention for December was released through The Pope Video. It is dedicated specifically to Christian minorities who live in the midst of war. In fact, in this last prayer intention of the year, Read More…

Pope leads poignant prayer for Christians in areas of conflict

Pope Paul VI inaugurated apostolic trips by airplane in 1964: He traveled to the Holy Land; a more significant choice couldn’t have been possible. Ever since, the first trip a pope makes seems to carry a weight beyond the geographical stops. It’s seen almost as a symbol of the pontificate. While John XXIII had made Read More…

Where popes have gone first: Destinations are meaningful

Vatican City, Nov 26, 2025 / 11:15 am The Vatican, the smallest state in the world, possesses a unique and complex legal, administrative, and spiritual structure designed to guarantee the independence of the pope and [...]

As journalists gathered outside Villa Barberini in Castel Gandolfo last night, Pope Leo XIV paused to speak about global tensions, interreligious concerns in light of the trip he begins tomorrow, and the hopes he carries into this uncertain moment. Yet amid questions on Ukraine, the distant prospect of peace in the Middle East, and violence Read More…

Pope Leo on Thanksgiving: “There are many things I’m thankful for”

Life is not “a threat” or “a parenthesis between two eternal nights,” said Pope Leo XIV during the general audience of November 26, 2025. Before tens of thousands of faithful attending this weekly gathering, the Pope encouraged people to live in hope, despite the difficulties of daily life. In his catechesis, Leo XIV focused on Read More…

Pope: We need confidence in life!

In all circumstances give thanks,for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.[1 Thessalonians 5:18] When I started in priestly ministry, I heard of another priest who kept a stack of notecards, and would end each day by writing a simple thank you or a greeting to anyone who touched his life Read More…

Becoming a thanks-giving, thanks-doing, thanks-saying people

On November 25, 2025, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) published Una Caro (“One Flesh”), a 40-page document in Italian that celebrates monogamy as the founding principle of marriage. This doctrinal note, approved by Leo XIV on November 21, advocates an “intimate and totalizing” relationship between a man and a woman in Read More…

‘Polyamory’ in West, polygamy in Africa: Vatican defends monogamy

On Friday, Pope Leo XIV will be at Lake Iznik, nearly 95 miles southeast of Istanbul. Together with some 20 Christian leaders — the list of participants has not yet been released — he will recite the Creed, the first Christian confession of faith, which was probably drafted at this very location exactly 1,700 years Read More…

Leo XIV in Turkey: A first major test in the Orthodox world

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