new video loaded: Pope Leo Visits Mideast on First Foreign Trip as Pontiff transcript Back transcript Pope Leo Visits Mideast on First Foreign Trip as Pontiff Pope Leo XIV landed in Muslim-majority Turkey on Thursday, beginning the first international trip of his papacy. The voyage is aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue and cooperation between Christian…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Saturday bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, the deeply influential 19th- century British convert and theologian, declaring him a doctor of the church and holding him up as a model for Catholic educators. Only 37 other people have been given…
For the first time since being elected in May, Pope Leo XIV waded into U.S. politics Tuesday, criticizing those who say they’re against abortion but support the death penalty, saying that’s “not really pro-life.” Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to Illinois…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church, raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.” Leo, a Chicago native, was asked late Tuesday about plans by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich to give a lifetime achievement award to…
How do you improve on a sacred space? That was artist Adam Cvijanovic’s assignment when he was approached early last year: a mural for St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. “The Catholic Church hasn’t done a significant piece of art like this in a long, long time,” he said. But Cvijanovic’s commission made him…
Top church leaders in Jerusalem have travelled to Gaza in a rare solidarity visit to the territory one day after an Israeli shell slammed into its only Catholic church, killing three people. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III entered Gaza on Friday morning to express the “shared pastoral…
(refiles to amend client identifier) GAZA (Reuters) -Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the highest ranking Catholic official in Jerusalem, entered Gaza on Friday to bring humanitarian aid and comfort to victims of Israel’s strike on the sole Catholic church of the Palestinian enclave. Three people died and several were injured in the strike on the Holy Family…
GAZA CITY (Reuters) -A strike on Gaza’s sole Catholic Church injured several people but caused no deaths, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem said on Thursday. Earlier reports from doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said two women had been killed following the raid. “The Holy Family Church in Gaza has been struck by…
By Clodagh Kilcoyne TUAM, Ireland (Reuters) -A team of forensic archaeologists and crime scene experts will next week begin excavating and trying to identify the remains of around 800 infants who died at an Irish church-run home for unmarried mothers. An investigation into the network of Catholic Church-run homes was launched almost a decade ago…
Growing up, Louis Prevost knew there was something special about his brother, Pope Leo XIV. “We knew as a family from a very young age, there was something special about Rob,” Louis told CBS News Friday of his brother, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost. “While I was out playing boy games, you know, whether…