3 d. ago 'Distraught' Pope meets Italian relatives of Swiss fire victims and tells them 'God has not abandoned you'

Pope Leo XIV has met the Italian families of the victims of the Swiss bar fire on New Year's Eve, telling them that God has not abandoned them. 

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3 d. ago Pope seeks to console families of young Italian victims of New Year's Swiss Alps bar fire

Pope Leo XIV has consoled families of Italian teenagers killed or injured in the Swiss bar fire at a New Year's party

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5 d. ago Machado urges Pope Leo to support release of Venezuelan prisoners

Pope Leo XIV has met with María Corina Machado at the Vatican

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5 d. ago Machado urges Pope Leo to support release of political prisoners in Venezuela

Pope Leo XIV has met with María Corina Machado at the Vatican

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5 d. ago World famous DJ Priest draws cheers and controversy with sold

Pope Leo XIV visited Lebanon as part of his first official trip abroad in November

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6 d. ago Machado seeks Pope Leo’s support for Venezuela's transition during Vatican meeting

Pope Leo XIV has met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican

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9 d. ago The Pope will travel in Europe this year. Here’s where he plans to go

Pope Leo XIV is set to fulfil Pope Francis’ wish of visiting a key migration entry point to Europe

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9 d. ago Pope to visit Spain this year, with stops in Madrid, Barcelona and Canary Islands, cardinal says

Pope Leo XIV is planning to travel to Spain this year

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9 d. ago Pope blasts how countries are using force to assert dominion in major foreign policy address

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide

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9 d. ago Pope indicates new governing style for Catholic Church with regular, annual cardinal meetings

Pope Leo XIV says he intends to bring the world’s Catholic cardinals together on an annual basis

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1 week ago Pope closes 2025 Holy Year and signals his pontificate can now begin in earnest

Pope Leo XIV has closed the Vatican’s 2025 Holy Year, marking the end of a yearlong celebration that drew 33 million pilgrims to Rome

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2 w. ago Pope opens 2026 with plea for peace in countries bloodied by war, families wounded by violence

Pope Leo XIV has opened 2026 with a plea for peace

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2 w. ago Pope asks that people 'welcome foreigners' as he closes out 2025

Closing out on 2025, Pope Leo XIV thanked the city of Rome and its volunteers who helped the millions of pilgrims visiting St Peter's, as well as praying that we 'welcome foreigners'

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2 w. ago Pope asks that Rome welcome foreigners as he closes out 2025

Pope Leo XIV has closed out 2025 with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people young and old

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3 w. ago Pope Leo condemns suffering in Gaza in first Christmas sermon

Pope Leo XIV led his first Christmas Day Mass and hit out at the conditions facing Palestinians in Gaza

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3 w. ago Pope Leo XIV condemns 'rubble and open wounds' left by war, mentioning Gaza in his first Christmas homily

On Christmas morning at 10am, the Leo presided over the Holy Mass during the day on the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord in St. Peter's Basilica.

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3 w. ago Pope Leo XIV remembers Gaza's suffering in first Christmas homily and calls for peace

Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day homily, has remembered the people of Gaza exposed to harsh weather

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3 w. ago Pope Leo's first Christmas: Thousands flock to St. Peter's Basilica as Pontiff leads mass

Pope Leo XIV presided over his first Midnight Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday as around 6,000 people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square

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3 w. ago Pope Leo's first Christmas: Thousands watch on as Pontiff leads mass at St. Peter's Basilica

Pope Leo XIV held the first Christmas mass of his pontificate on Wednesday, greeting thousands of faithful in St Peter's Square before the service.

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3 w. ago Pope disappointed over approval of assisted suicide legislation in his home state of Illinois

Pope Leo XIV says he's “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois has approved medically assisted suicide

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