Published on: Oct 05, 2025 09:26 pm IST Pope Leo XIV urges commitment to peace in Gaza following Hamas’s positive response to Trump’s peace plan. Pope Leo XIV on Sunday praised the “significant progress” towards peace in Gaza, again calling for a ceasefire in the devastated Palestinian territory and the release of Israeli hostages. Pope…
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…
Our new 70-year-old, Chicago-born Pope, Pope Leo XIV, just took issue with exorbitant billionaire pay packages. He mentioned how the gap between the upper class and everyone else continues to widen, and specifically called out Elon Musk. He was reacting to a headline that some maniacs will cheer while the rest of us either groan…
Pope Leo XIV has criticized corporate pay packages that award executives vastly higher pay than rank-and-file workers, singling out Tesla‘s proposed near $1 trillion compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk. Why It Matters Speaking about the news that Elon Musk could become the first trillionaire in the world—if Tesla shareholders approve a new compensation plan…
Pope Leo XVI prayed publicly on Sunday for the victims of the shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota and called for an end to the “pandemic of arms, large and small.” The U.S.-born pope spoke in English as he denounced the attack and the “logic of weapons” fueling wars around the world, during his…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV demanded Wednesday that Israel stop the “collective punishment” and forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza as he pleaded for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the besieged territory amid preparations by Israel for a new military offensive. Leo was interrupted twice by applause as he read aloud his latest…
At the Sunday Angelus, the Pope makes a heartfelt appeal to international decision-makers to take responsibility for seeking solutions to conflicts. He expresses satisfaction over the new peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but also deep sorrow for the violence that continues to devastate Haiti. Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed a peace deal at the…
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a weeklong encounter with the next generation of faithful that they are “the sign that a different world is possible” where conflicts can be resolved with dialogue, not weapons. In his closing blessing for the…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the crowd for the first time after his May 8 election, liturgical fashion aficionados around the globe took note: Gone was the simple white cassock and silver cross favored by Pope Francis. Back was the…
Pope Leo XIV called free speech and the press a “precious gift” as he asked for the release of imprisoned journalists. He made the comments during an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists from around the world who descended on Rome over the past week to cover his election as the first U.S.-born pontiff….