‘Pray with the Pope’: Leo XIV Invites Monthly Prayer

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication has launched a new prayer campaign in which Pope Leo XIV invites Catholics to pray with him for the great challenges facing the world. The “Pray with the Pope” initiative is part of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, which, during the pontificate of Pope Francis, launched the project known as […]

Pope Leo XIV Plans Annual Consistories, Next in June

Pope Leo XIV will be hosting a second consistory of cardinals at the end of June and wants to hold such meetings annually. The Vatican made the announcement Thursday evening at the conclusion of the Holy Father’s first extraordinary consistory of cardinals that lasted two days. The next such meeting is expected to be held […]

Pope Leo XIV Warns Against Agendas at Consistory

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday called on cardinals to experience the extraordinary consistory as a time of spiritual discernment in unity and warned against the temptation to put personal interests ahead of the common good. “We gather not to promote personal or group ‘agendas’ but to entrust our plans and inspirations to a discernment that […]

Pope Leo XIV Shares January Prayer Intention

Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of January is for the faithful to pray with the word of God. In a video released Jan. 7 on X, the Holy Father said that he is praying “that we may learn, practice, and love praying with the word of God.” “The gift of Scripture is […]

Cardinals Stress Peace and Unity at Leo XIV Consistory

Cardinals who spoke to the Register as they entered the consistory all said they welcomed the Pope’s decision to host the two-day meeting. Participants in the Jan. 7-8 extraordinary consistory in Rome shared their thoughts with the Register Wednesday on Pope Leo XIV’s first major meeting with the College of Cardinals since his election in […]

Liturgy sidestepped at Pope Leo XIV’s first consistory

ROME — Some cardinals and faithful who have a devotion to the traditional Roman rite have expressed concern that the liturgy appears to be sidelined in the extraordinary consistory currently underway at the Vatican after the cardinals voted to give priority to other issues on the agenda. In his opening address to the consistory yesterday, […]

Pope Leo XIV Opens Consistory: “I Am Here to Listen”

In his opening address at the extraordinary consistory convened for Jan. 7–8, Pope Leo XIV assured the cardinals from around the world gathered at the Vatican that “I am here to listen.” The Holy Father reminded the cardinals, assembled in the Synod Hall, that “as we learned during the two assemblies of the Synod of […]

Pope Leo XIV Reaffirms Vatican II Before Cardinals’ Meeting

Pope Leo XIV began a series of reflections on the Second Vatican Council at his first general audience of 2026 on Wednesday. The public audience, held indoors in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall due to low temperatures, took place shortly before the start of Leo’s first consultation with cardinals, called a consistory, convened for Jan. […]

Latin Mass Debate: Priest Proposes New Canonical Structure

As cardinals gather this week in an extraordinary consistory convened by Pope Leo XIV on Jan. 7–8, a French traditionalist priest has sent a memorandum to members of the Sacred College of Cardinals proposing the creation of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction specifically structured to oversee the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in an effort to […]

Assessing the Fruits of the Jubilee of Hope

COMENTARIU: Speranța ne ajută să ne mizăm viața pe ceea ce ne-a spus Isus despre lumea aceasta și cea viitoare. Jubileul speranței se va încheia atunci când Papa Leon va închide Ușa Sfântă din Bazilica Sfântul Petru pe 6 ianuarie. Acum avem ocazia să începem să evaluăm succesele sale notabile și ratările [...]