IZNIK, Turkey —On the second day of his inaugural foreign trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the site where early Christian leaders met 1,700 years ago for the First Council of Nicaea — the gathering that ...

During the Mass, Leo urged Turkey’s small Catholic community to forge “bonds of unity” with other Christians and people of other faiths as an invitation to become peacemakers. I found fame as an ’80s ...

Pope Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque and celebrated Mass on Saturday on the second day of his trip to Turkey as he stressed the need for Christian unity. Leo was following in the footsteps of ...

On Sept. 14, 1998, Pope St. John Paul II — whose feast the Church celebrates on Oct. 22 — issued the encyclical Fides et Ratio on the relationship between faith and reason. John Paul II opened the ...

Hezbollah welcomed Pope Leo XIV with a statement filled with complaints about Israel, as the pontiff is expected to travel to Lebanon on Sunday after his visit to Turkey concludes. The Islamist group ...

Pope Leo XIV urged US high school students to be "intentional" with their screen time, their prayer time and their involvement in a local parish. "One of my own personal heroes, one of my favorite ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday urged academics to “think the faith” in order to confront what he called an increasingly pervasive “cultural emptiness.” The pope spoke at a ceremony inaugurating the academic ...

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, holds a bundle of letters to Pope Leo XIV from migrants in the United States before presenting them to the pope Oct. 8, 2025, during an audience at the Vatican.

King Charles has called for Christian unity “against conflict and division” as he and Queen Camilla arrive in Rome for their historic State Visit to the Holy See. The King and Queen landed at Ciampino ...