Pope Leo XIV prays for respect for human life as his July 2026 prayer intention in this screenshot from a "Pray with the Pope" video released by the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network on 2 July. Photo: OSV News/Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network. By Deborah Castellano Lubov Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholics across the globe to join him this July in praying for respect for human life. In his ...

Cardinals attend the presentation of "Magnifica Humanitas" at the Vatican's Synod Hall on 25 May 2026, the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV's papacy, which focuses on the rise of artificial intelligence. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. When Pope Leo XIV walked into the Vatican's Synod Hall on 25 May to present his first encyclical in person, the international press lined up ...

Archbishop Costelloe challenged young people across the Archdiocese of Perth to become instruments of peace. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has challenged young people across the Archdiocese to become “instruments of peace” and people of practical compassion. Speaking to Catholic secondary school students from across Perth at the 2026 Secon...

The compassion of the Samaritan: loving by bearing another’s pain. That was the theme - drawn from the parable of the Good Samaritan - that Pope Leo XIV selected for the 34th World Day of the Sick which was celebrated on February 11. In his message to commemorate the day, Pope Leo said, “we live immersed in a culture of speed, immediacy and haste - a culture of ‘discard’ and indifference...

Speaking in an opinion column published in The Australian this week, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB highlighted that the fragile ceasefire of Israel and Hamas offers some hope that the worst of the violence might be behind us, but the repercussions from the horrors of 7 October will continue to play out for many years.