2+ hour, 10+ min ago  (917+ words) ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (OSV News) " Pope Leo XIV pushed back against the media narrative that has pitted him against President Donald Trump since the start of his 11-day apostolic journey to Africa, telling journalists aboard the papal flight to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (370+ words) Pope Leo XIV spoke over the telephone with the presidents of Israel and Ukraine on Good Friday, urging diplomatic solutions and humanitarian support amid the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Europe. The Holy See Press Office confirmed that…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (722+ words) ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ALGIERS (OSV News) " Pope Leo XIV said April 13 he has "no fear" of President Donald Trump's administration and responded to Trump's criticism by telling journalists that his message to the U. S. president is "the message of…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (392+ words) In an April 13 interview with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, Washington Cardinal Robert W. Mc Elroy reacted to President Trump's harsh criticism of Pope Leo XIV, calling it "distressing." "I find the president's attack very distressing, particularly because we're in an age…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1670+ words) More U. S. Catholic bishops are speaking out in defense of Pope Leo XIV after President Donald Trump began denouncing the pope at length on social media and in verbal statements. Shortly after Trump posted his 330-word condemnation of the vicar of…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (872+ words) Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon on April 15, delivering a forceful appeal for peace to a nation scarred by years of separatist violence, telling the country's leaders that "there is such a hunger and thirst for justice" as thousands lined…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (617+ words) The Trump administration has canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami for sheltering unaccompanied migrant children, leaving just three months to place an unspecified number of children. The federal Office of Refugee Resettlement advised the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (460+ words) Separatist factions operating in Cameroon's Anglophone regions announced a temporary cessation of hostilities ahead of Pope Leo XIV's stop in Cameroon on the second leg of his papal visit to the African continent. After a historical first papal visit to…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1038+ words) More than a year after President Donald Trump pardoned 23 pro-life activists convicted of violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE Act, and the Justice Department announced it would severely limit prosecutions of such cases, the department…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (971+ words) Lebanese Christians are reeling from the death and destruction wrought on their community, caught in the crossfire between Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, a deadly side conflict in the U. S. and Israel-Iran war. So far, more than 2, 000 people have been…...