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Pope John Paul II and then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger are seen together at the altar during the Easter Vigil liturgy in St. Peter's Basilica, Mar…
By ITV staff With a special decree dated January 10, 2026, Pope Leo has inaugurated a “Year of St. Francis,” commemorating the 800th anniversary…
By Mary Stroka (CatholicVote) Brian Burch, the U.S. ambassador to the Holy See and co-founder of CatholicVote, was summoned on Christmas Eve by…
By Nathalie Raffray (ACN)/ITV staff Gaza’s only Roman Catholic parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli — who has spoken to Pope Leo by phone and…
It fuels an agenda “potentially harmful to Christians,” they say By Andreas Wailzer (LifeSite News) The Christian Patriarchs of the Holy Land ha…
By Robert Moynihan “In the early stages of any schism, its promoters find themselves obliged to hold by outworn traditions, because they have no…
Slovak-American doctor Jan Eperjesi builds a stone chapel on a California ranch By Jan Eperjesi, M.D. In July 2014, I moved to Paso Robles, Cali…
Author Matthew Ramage calls Joseph Ratzinger “the greatest theologian of our age” By Casey Chalk One hundred years from now, what theologians of…
Meanwhile, reactions to planned episcopal consecrations without papal mandate vary By ITV staff After the Priestly Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)…
Pope Leo chose the young Trappist Bishop of Trondheim, Norway, a student of Gregorian chant and vocal promoter of chastity By Diane Montagna Pop…
By Daniele Piccini (Vatican News) The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, spoke to journalists about tensions between the Unite…
In his first “State of the World” speech, Leo warns against the pursuit of power, the subversion of language, persecution both overt and subtle,…
During the inauguration Mass of his pontificate in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV received two symbols of papal power By Vatican MediaThe Euch…
The Holy See press office on May 16 (last Friday) released a 2nd photograph of Pope Leo XIV, available for free download at this link. (The 1st…
Letter #57, 2023 Fri Feb 24: Francis in Hungary? The article below reports that, according to not yet validated Vatican sources, a papal trip to…
A section of Rome’s Via delle Fornaci that runs by a large estate owned by the Russian embassies to Italy (located on the left side of that wall…
Letter #170, 2021, Wednesday, December 8: Letters from readers, pro and con I receive many letters every day, of course, from readers of these e…
Pope Francis prays at a tall Marian statue overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome Dec. 8, 2021, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. (CNS phot…