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With a Motu Proprio, Pope Leo XIV has abrogated Article 8 n. 1 of the previous Fundamental Law of Vatican City State, which had allowed only cardinals to serve as president of the Commission, a position currently held by Sister Raffaella Petrini. The Pope, therefore, consolidates a change wanted by Francis and resolves an issue that had emerged due to increasingly “complex and pressing” governance needs.
The Maronite Archbishop of Beirut, Paul Abdel Sater, looks forward to Pope Leo XIV's upcoming visit to Lebanon. He upholds the Pope's continuing closeness to the country and says his mere presence will provide huge encouragement to the population.
Participants from numerous countries and various religious traditions gathered at the international symposium "Nostra Aetate: 60 Years Later" held at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Cardinal George Koovakad, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue and one of the speakers, emphasized that interreligious dialogue must receive greater attention on the international stage and that the spirit of Nostra Aetate remains essential for contemporary peacebuilding efforts.
Ten years after Pope Francis introduced a reform on marital nullity, Pope Leo XIV addresses members of a training course organized by the Roman Rota, urging them to discover the three dimensions of the marital process and how its end goal must always be the salvation of souls.
Meeting with the representative council of Caritas Internationalis, Pope Leo XIV praises the Church's social outreach agency for accompanying displaced families, defending the rights of the poor, and offering a listening heart to the forgotten.
Oumayma Farah, Director of Development and Communications of the Order of Malta Lebanon, speaks to Vatican News about the dire humanitarian situation in the country and how the Pope’s upcoming Apostolic Journey will bring a renewed sense of hope in the future.
Speaking on the sidelines of COP30 in Brazil, Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, President of the Federation of Asian Catholic Bishops reiterates the duty that the Global North has towards the Global South, and invites people to stop finding distractions and do what needs to be done to save the planet.
As the death toll from flooding in central Vietnam rises to 41, the Caritas outreach arm of the Diocese of Da Nang brings food and supplies to flood-hit communities.
Catholic ministry leaders join people directly impacted by crime and incarceration for the 2025 National Catholic Conference on Restorative Justice, a Jubilee-inspired event dedicated to promoting healing approaches to transforming the US justice system.
Antonio Korkuvi from Ghana urges the world to honour the moral call of Laudato si’ and support the communities already living the consequences of a crisis they did not create, as the last few hours of negotiations unfold at COP30.
On the sidelines of COP30, Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio to Brazil and Deputy Head of the Holy See’s Delegation to COP30, recounts the work of the delegation present in Belém.
The Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin celebrated a Mass in Rome to commemorate the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor and emphasized the suffering of the Ukrainian population today living under war.