Vatican City, Oct 6, 2025 / 06:00 am Long before cloud servers and computers, medieval Catholic monks preserved the intellectual inheritance of the ancient world by handwriting Greek and Latin manuscripts. Centuries later, the Vatican [...] --- Vatican City, Oct 6, [...]

What does the Catholic Church believe about Islam and about Muslims? This question flares up periodically on the internet and sometimes in real life. Clearly, Muslims reject Jesus and are not a part of the [...] --- What does the Catholic [...]

Pope Leo XIV greets a member of the Swiss Guard during a swearing-in ceremony at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 / Credit: Vatican Media CNA Staff, Oct 4, 2025 / 13:05 pm (CNA). Pope Leo XIV on Saturday attended the [...]

CNA Staff, Oct 5, 2025 / 06:00 am For the first time in the United States, Catholics will have the opportunity to venerate the full-size habit worn by St. Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as [...] --- CNA Staff, Oct 5, [...]

In response to a journalist who asked the pontiff about the “[Cardinal Angelo] Becciu trial” on a recent evening outside Castel Gandolfo, the pope said “the trial must go forward” The post Leo XIV says he’ll not interfere in the [...]

The bones and reliquary of St. Thérèse of Lisieux make their first stop at the Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, Michigan, on Oct. 1, 2025. / Credit: Photo courtesy of Detroit Catholic Ann Arbor, Michigan, Oct [...]

NBC News reported Oct. 2 that Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin was “overwhelmed” by Pope Leo’s comments about the Archdiocese of Chicago’s plans to award the pro-abortion… The post NBC reports Durbin moved by ‘support’ from Pope Leo appeared first on [...]

Professor John Rist is denouncing Pope Leo's 'shameful' refusal to criticize Cardinal Cupich's award for pro-abortion Sen. Dick Durbin. --- Professor John Rist is denouncing Pope Leo's 'shameful' refusal to criticize Cardinal Cupich's award for pro-abortion Sen. Dick [...]

A 13th-century fresco of St. Francis of Assisi by the Florentine painter Cimabue, one of the earliest depictions of the saint, is located in the lower church of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy.  / [...]

Leo’s answers to the other questions were careful and calibrated. They were amply newsworthy, and they offered what could fairly be called a master class in press relations. --- Even veteran politicians with practiced media savvy, honed under the most ruthlessly [...]