Message to Participants in the Seminar, “Evangelizing with the Families of Today and Tomorrow: Ecclesiological and Pastoral Challenges”, organized by the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life (2-3 June 2025) Released Monday, 2 June 2025 Becoming ...

Address of His Holiness Pope Leo XIVto Members of the Media Monday, 12 May 2025 Let us disarm words and we will help to disarm the world Good morning and thank you for this wonderful reception! They say when they clap at the beginning it does not ...

Following his first Regina Caeli, Pope Leo XIV issued an appeal for an end to the conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and on the India/Pakistan border. Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday! I consider it a gift from God that the first Sunday of my service ...

Some 70,000 pilgrims from more than 100 countries took part in the festivities for the Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations, and New Communities on Saturday, 7 June, and Sunday, 8 June. Among the groups present were representatives of the ...

On Monday, 9 June, liturgical memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, the Church marked the Jubilee of the Holy See. In the morning, participants listened to a reflection by Sr Maria Gloria Riva, in the Paul VI Hall. The Pope then carried a Jubilee ...

By Grace Lathrop University of Iowa Student Thousands of athletes, coaches, managers and enthusiasts gathered in Saint Peter’s Square on Saturday, 14 June, to celebrate the Jubilee of Sport. The program for the two-day event began on Saturday with a ...

Father Francesco Patton Looks Back at Nine Years as Custos of the Holy Land

Ending Child Labour

By Jonathan Montaldo Contemplative prayer is not a withdrawal from the world but a close encounter with the facts of our existence in the world. We are contemplative when we surrender in faith that the world of our personal histories was a ...

By Abraham Skorka Georgetown University, Washington D.C. As soon as he was elected Pope, Francis called me on the phone and gave me the email address we could use to keep in touch with each other. From that day in March 2013 until now, we have ...

By Andrea Tornielli Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State, spoke to Vatican Media about several issues currently at the center of the Holy See’s attention. These include the terrible images coming from Gaza, the antisemitic attack in ...

By Alessandro Gisotti In the Sistine Chapel, during the Conclave, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle and Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost sat next to each other. They met again, one week after Pope Leo XIV’s election. The American-Peruvian Cardinal and the ...

By Roberto Cetera Fr Gabriel Romanelli, parish priest of the Holy Family Church, spoke to Vatican Media about the difficult humanitarian situation in Gaza and his gratitude to Pope Leo XIV for “his words of peace.” The interview was released on 21 ...

In The End

The Other Half

26 July - Saints Anne and Joachim Parents of the Virgin Mary and grandparents of Jesus, Saints Anne and Joachim are celebrated on July 26. Saint Anne is venerated as the patron saint of women in labour, mothers, and widows. She is also honoured in ...

Le ossa di Antonia [Antonia’s Bones] (Marietti 1820) by Marco Campedelli is an intense and poetic work that restores voice and dignity to the nameless ones of history. The author is both a theologian, and storyteller., Through a lyrical and civic ...

Francesco, la via maestra [Francis: The High Road], San Paolo, by Stefania Falasca is a clear-sighted and passionate journey through the heart of Pope Francis’ magisterium. With both expertise and sensitivity, the author, who is a Vatican journalist ...

by Laura Eduati During his lectures at Cambridge in the 1920s, novelist E.M. Forster claimed that only a handful of writers are truly prophetic, by which he means capable of speaking to the deep human truth in a way that is both universal and ...