Vatican

Pope Leo’s Good Friday service offers prayer for deported children

Pope Leo XIV presides over the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession during Good Friday celebrations, at the Colosseum, in Rome, Italy, April 3, 2026. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

Pope Leo speaks to Israeli, Ukrainian presidents: Vatican

The calls happened as the pontiff was observing the Catholic Holy Week leading up to Easter on April 5.

Washing priests' feet, Pope Leo urges Catholics to aid the oppressed

Pope Leo XIV leads the Holy Thursday Mass at the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (Basilica of St. John Lateran) in Rome, Italy April 2, 2026. REUTERS/Vincenzo Livieri

Pope Leo urges Monaco, tax haven of billionaires, to help needy

Pope Leo (left) meets with Prince Albert II of Monaco during a private audience in the Prince's Palace of Monaco in Monte Carlo.

Pope Leo names Australian bishop to lead Vatican’s legal office

Pope Leo XIV holds the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 4, 2026. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Catholics may receive organ transplants from animals, Vatican says

The Vatican first greenlit transplants of animal tissues to humans in 2001.

Belgian bishop challenges Pope Leo to allow married priests by 2028

Pope Leo XIV arrives to hold the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Top Vatican cardinal urges Trump, Israel to end war 'as soon as possible'

A destroyed vehicle amid rubble at the site of a strike on a residential building, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Tehran, Iran, March 16, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a ‘moral imperative’

Pope Leo XIV holds the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 18, 2026. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Pope Leo says Christians who start wars should go to confession

Pope Leo XIV waves on the day he holds the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 11, 2026. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

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