57 h. ago ‘Listen to the cry of the Earth’: Pope Leo takes aim at climate change sceptics

Pontiff laments that some ‘ridicule those who speak of global warming’, days after Trump’s claims of ‘con job’Pope Leo XIV has taken aim at people who “ridicule those who speak of global warming” as he embraced Pope Francis’s environmental legacy and made it his own in some of his strongest and most extensive comments on the subject to date.Leo presided over the 10th-anniversary celebration of Francis’s landmark ecological encyclical, Laudato Si (Praised Be), at a global gathering south of Rome. The encyclical cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern and launched a global grassroots movement to advocate for caring for God’s creation and the peoples most harmed by its exploitation. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Pope Leo XIV takes aim at climate skeptics as he embraces predecessor's environmental legacy

Pope Leo XIV is taking aim at skeptics who he says “ridicule those who speak of global warming.”

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5 d. ago Israel presses on with Gaza assault as Trump again claims ceasefire is close

IDF launches 140 airstrikes in last 24 hours as tanks advance in Gaza City and death toll for same period is put at 77Israel has pressed on with its offensive in Gaza as Donald Trump claimed again to be on the brink of a breakthrough in negotiations for a ceasefire in the devastated territory.Witnesses and medics said Israeli tanks were advancing through central and western neighbourhoods of Gaza City towards crowded coastal areas where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago King Charles to visit Vatican and meet Pope Leo for first time

King and Queen Camilla to join pontiff in late October amid jubilee year celebrations, says Buckingham PalaceKing Charles III and Queen Camilla will make a state visit to meet Pope Leo XIV for the first time at the Vatican next month, Buckingham Palace has said.The trip in late October will come about six months after the royal couple visited Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis, shortly before his death in April. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit the Vatican and meet with Pope Leo XIV for the first time next month

King Charles, 76, and Queen Camilla, 78, will travel to Vatican City in late October to meet Pope Leo XIV to celebrate the 2025 Jubilee Year.

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7 d. ago Pope Leo makes first big Vatican appointment to fill his old job at important bishop's office

Pope Leo XIV has made his first big Vatican appointment

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9 d. ago Pope identifies successor for embattled New Orleans archbishop after sex abuse settlement

Pope Leo XIV has named a successor to the embattled archbishop of New Orleans two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a $230 million settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse

Events

9 d. ago A mother stranded in Gaza City says she and her daughters are 'waiting to die'

Noor Abu Hassira is one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians staying in Gaza City as Israel presses on with an offensive to take it over

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1 week ago Israel presses on with Gaza offensive: IDF tanks level city streets while troops move in to root out Hamas

IDF tanks rolled through the city's streets as Israeli troops dismantled underground shafts and destroyed booby-trapped buildings which they believe to have been organised by Hamas .

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2 w. ago Pope Leo admits he is not a Donald Trump supporter in revealing interview

Pope Leo XIV remarked US bishops showed ‘courage’ in confronting the Trump administration

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2 w. ago Pope Leo reveals he is not a Donald Trump supporter in revealing interview

Pope Leo XIV remarked US bishops showed ‘courage’ in confronting the Trump administration

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2 w. ago Pope tells new US ambassador he is praying for Charlie Kirk and his family

Pope Leo XIV has told the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican that he was praying for Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist assassinated in Utah last week, as well as his wife and children

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2 w. ago Pope praises forgiveness as mother of slain US journalist James Foley speaks of healing at Vatican

The mother of James Foley, the American journalist kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants in Syria in 2014, has told her story of loss and healing at a Vatican vigil attended by Pope Leo XIV

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2 w. ago ‘Big trouble’: Pope Leo criticises Elon Musk’s wealth in first media interview

Pope Leo was elected the first US pope by the world's cardinals in May to replace Francis

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2 w. ago Pope Leo criticises Elon Musk’s wealth in first media interview

Pope Leo was elected the first US pope by the world's cardinals in May to replace Francis

Culture

2 w. ago Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up celebrates his 70th birthday with gospel music, balloons

The Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up is celebrating his 70th birthday with gospel music and a balloon release outside his boyhood home

Culture

2 w. ago Pope honors 21st century martyrs: Christians killed by Islamic militants, mafias, Amazon ranchers

Pope Leo XIV has honored hundreds of Christians who have been killed for their faith in the 21st century

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2 w. ago Pope Leo XIV turns 70 and thanks God, his parents and all those who prayed for him

Pope Leo XIV has marked his 70th birthday by thanking God, his parents and all those who prayed for him

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer condemns strike on Qatar as 'flagrant violation' in meeting with Israel's President

Speaking after the talks, a Downing Street spokesperson described the Doha bombing by Israel as a 'flagrant violation', and also called out the 'manmade famine' in Gaza

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3 w. ago Furious MP snaps at Keir Starmer for meeting Israel’s Isaac Herzog ‘whilst children in Gaza starve’

Sir Keir Starmer’s upcoming meeting with Israel’s president Isaac Herzog has been slammed by a furious Stephen Flynn.

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