Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to break bread with a group of transgender activists at a special luncheon at the Vatican this weekend, another sign that he […]

Pope Leo XIV will meet and dine with Alessia Nobile and other trans Catholic activists this Sunday, during a special Vatican lunch marking the Church’s Jubilee of the Poor, Catholic journalist Christopher Hale reports.

Pope Leo XIV decried poverty on Sunday, urging world leaders and Catholics to reach out to marginalised people, as the Church celebrated a "Jubilee of the Poor". The US pope has made social justice a key theme of his papacy,

Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip. His pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first American pope on the road.

And yet, the biblical Jubilee tells us just that: a time when mechanisms of ownership are interrupted, debts are forgiven, the land rests, and the enslaved are set free. A time that overturns usual logic to remind us that the economy is a tool,

Pope Leo XIV will welcome top actors and directors for a rare Vatican audience, exploring how creativity can promote human values during a Jubilee Year.

Dec. 2 trip will show how the leader of the Catholic Church steps into the international stage and sets his tone as greets crowds and the press.

In a historic first this weekend, LGBTQ+ Catholics joined the church’s Jubilee Year pilgrimage to St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, a once-every-25-year ritual that grants a “plenary indulgence” to participants. “I can’t imagine this ...

Leo XIV will set out on his first foreign trip as pope on the morning of Nov. 27, first to Turkey, a Muslim country with a tiny Christian population, and then, on Nov. 30, to Lebanon, the country with the largest Christian population in the Middle East.