A Journey Through Quirinale: Papal Visits in Modern Italy

Republican Italy has so far witnessed ten papal visits to the Quirinale. John XXIII, the Pope of the Council made a saint by ...
Religion Unplugged

Not Taking The Bull By The Horns: Pope Leo Spurns Pleas To Condemn Bloody Pastime

Ignoring pleas from animal rights advocates to denounce bullfighting and its close ties with Spanish Catholicism, Pope Leo ...

Saint Pope John Paul II - a hasty halo?

During his 27-year pontificate, Pope John Paul II canonised so many people that some dubbed the Vatican "the saint factory".

Pope shakes up running of Vatican funds after London property scandal

Pope Francis has stripped the Vatican's Secretariat of State of control over its own funds, moving them to the supervision of its economic offices in an attempt to contain the fallout of a scandal ...
La Civiltà Cattolica

The Social Demands of the Jubilee

Fernando de la Iglesia Viguiristi, SJ, and Stefano Del Bove, SJ, explore the 2025 Jubilee’s roots and Pope Francis’ call for ...
National Catholic ReporterOpinion

Leo's exhortation enlists the old, and the new, in service to the poor

Pope Leo's new document, Dilexi Te, is an excellent summation of Catholic social teaching about the poor that reflects his ...

Leo XIV speaks out on ‘dictatorship’ of economic inequality and support for migrants in first major text

Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality ...
National Catholic RegisterOpinion

Why Vatican II Urged Catholics to Be the ‘Church of the Poor’

COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council reminded the faithful that in serving the poor, the Church encounters Christ himself — ...
The Tablet

‘I’ll Stand With You,’ Pope Leo XIV Tells Bishop Mark Seitz, US Immigration Leaders

A young immigrant from the U.S. wrote to Pope Leo XIV of the fear they have for those who are undocumented amid a nationwide ...