In an audience with the Illinois Municipal League, the pontiff said that Gospel values can be applied to city government to the benefit of the most vulnerable and for the common good.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said there is nothing wrong with the president and military leaders “calling on the American people to pray for our service members.”

Pope Leo XIV has chosen four U.S. Catholics to serve in a Vatican office that focuses heavily on immigration.

Bishop Steven Lopes welcomed a Vatican document as a significant encouragement, calling it “an exhortation to live this patrimony in all of its richness.”

In the Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome, Cardinal Dominique Mathieu, archbishop of Tehran-Isfahan, on Monday evening stood in prayer for peace.

Mexico’s bishops emphasized the transformative power of the cross of Christ and that, despite the trials of this life, Jesus has the final victory.

A deadly attack has left at least 11 people dead and several others injured following an attack by suspected gunmen in Gari Ya Waye community, Angwan Rukuba, served by Nigeria’s Archdiocese of Jos.

The National Catholic Register contacted all 175 Latin-rite territorial dioceses in the United States, seeking numbers of people planning to join the Catholic Church at Easter 2026.

The final report addressing the pastoral challenge of polygamy in Africa draws attention to a wide range of social, cultural, and pastoral realities shaping the practice across the continent.

The announcement came after the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem and the custos of the Holy Land were restricted from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday.