By Josephine Peterson Pope Leo XIV waves from his popemobile in St Peter's Square at the Vatican during his weekly general audience on 28 October, 2026. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. Catholics must not live their faith in opposition or "hostility" toward modern culture, Pope Leo XIV said, emphasising that integrating faith and culture is essential to living out the Chri...

Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholics to gather in person for Sunday Mass and has called for working conditions that allow people to attend, saying Sunday is “the foundation and kernel of the whole liturgical year.”

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims and residents as he leads the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Libertà in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Italy, on 12 July 2026. Photo: OSV News/Elisabetta Trevisan, Vatican News. Pope Leo XIV has called on Catholics not to lose hope as conflict continues to spread across parts of the world, warning that the "winds of war" are once again “sowing violence, terror and ...

In the second of a two-part series for The Record, Irish professor Dr Eamon Con-way from the University of Notre Dame Australia gives an insight into the up-coming pontificate of Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinal Grech told bishops that Pope Francis approved the three-year plan on 11 March at Rome’s Gemelli hospital where he had been being treated since the 14 February.

In his prepared text, Pope Francis focused on the birth of Jesus, the messianic king, in a humble stable.

Speaking at the Vatican on 25 August, Pope Francis said, “If someone commits evil against his people, he will be guilty of that, but he cannot have committed evil just because he prayed.”

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told reporters during an online meeting on Tuesday 16 October that he is willing to do “anything” to “bring to freedom and bring home the children” taken into Gaza during Hamas’ on 7 October attack on Israel, in which more than 1,300 Israelis were killed.

In order to help people encounter Jesus, priests “need to listen to the Spirit together with the whole people of God, so as to renew our faith and find new ways and languages to share the Gospel with our brothers and sisters,” Secretary-General of the Synod of the Bishops, Cardinal Mario Grech and Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, Archbishop Lazarus You Heung-sik have written, in a letter to priests and clergy released 19 March. By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service.

Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, Archbishop Arthur Roche has this week released a letter saying Catholic men and women formally installed in the new ministry of catechists are not simply religious education teachers but are engaged in “the proclamation and transmission of the faith”.