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Vatican Announces Global Rosary for Peace With Pope Leo XIV

A pilgrim prays the rosary at a Marian vigil in St. Peter’s Square, Rome, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025. |

A worldwide Rosary, coordinated by the Dicastery for Evangelization, will be prayed at the Lourdes Grotto in the Vatican Gardens on May 30.

Pope Sets Up Commission to Tackle $290 Million Debt at Padre Pio’s Hospital

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The Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, founded by St. Pio of Pietrelcina, in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Pope Leo XIV has established a commission to oversee the hospital, which is facing a crisis of hundreds of millions of euros of debt.

The hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, where the saint known as Padre Pio lived for most of his life, has debts estimated to run between about $290 million to $350 million.

All That Matters: A Return to the Eucharistic Heart of the United States of America

Beneath the trees at the Rustic Altar, Bishop Erik Pohlmeier and pilgrims kneel before the Blessed Sacrament…the still center of a journey about to move through the nation.

Before there was a nation, there was an altar. Now, 461 years after the first Catholic missionaries landed in St. Augustine, pilgrims once again carry Christ into the heart of America.

Pope Leo Urges Priests to Respect ‘Norms of the Liturgy’ to Avoid Confusion at Mass

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Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims during the general audience in St. Peter’s Square, May 27, 2026. The pope urged priests “to respect the texts and norms of the liturgy” during a reflection on the Second Vatican Council’s liturgical reform.

Pope Leo’s catechesis focused on the Second Vatican Council’s constitution, ‘Sacrosanctum Concilium,’ a document that transformed the way Catholics celebrate Mass.

The Peace We Can Make

In his [2002] World Day of Peace message, John Paul II taught a truth many Catholics have seemingly forgotten: that ‘peace,’ in the classic Catholic sense of the term, is a matter of order, the order that is built through law and politics.

COMMENTARY: The pursuit of peace in the Middle East reminded me of words I wrote 24 years ago.

‘Magnifica Humanitas’: Pope Leo Makes His Case for Authentic Humanism

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Pope Leo attends the presentation of his first encyclical on May 25, 2026.

COMMENTARY: In his first encyclical, the Holy Father has concluded that the widespread understanding of the human person in a technological culture has become so eroded that some philosophical repair work is needed first.

Vice President Vance: ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Is ‘Profound’

Vice President JD Vance commented on the Pope’s encyclical, NBC News reported on May 26, 2026.

‘The thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles does, because the world changes, right?’ Vance told NBC News.