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Speaking with members of the Catholic University of Central Africa, the Pope highlights the university’s role in forming future leaders and professionals who will have the responsibility to work for the common good in their own society and around the world.
Pope Leo XIV makes a private visit to St. Paul Catholic Hospital in Douala, visiting and praying with patients, families, and hospital staff.
The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a wide-ranging message, urging national renewal grounded in respect for human life, ethical leadership, and social justice.
Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass in Douala on his third day in Cameroon, and urges young people to reject every form of abuse or violence and to always show hospitality and care for one another.
In relation to technocracy and digitalization, students are experiencing increasing mental health issues and isolation. By combining psychological listening and her religious experience, Sr. Kakali, a sister of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, accompanies young people in their journeys of healing.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami decries that services provided by the Catholic Church for unaccompanied minors will be forced to shut down after the US government strips its funding.
Our Editorial Director recalls the teachings of the Popes on nuclear weapons since the atomic bombings of Japan in August 1945.
Upon returning to Yaoundé, Pope Leo XIV meets with several representatives of Cameroon’s Islamic communities, encouraging people of all faiths to work toward peace based on mutual respect.
On the fourth day of his Apostolic Journey across Africa, Pope Leo visits Cameroon’s conflict-ridden North-west, and stresses that the time for change is “today and not tomorrow, now and not in the future”.
Celebrating Mass in Cameroon’s western city of Bamenda, Pope Leo XIV decries the numerous forms of poverty and injustice that afflict the region, and urges Cameroonians to entrust themselves to God and his Word in their struggle to create a future of peace and reconciliation.
Pope Leo XIV sends a message to a meeting of the Italian Bishops' Conference on safeguarding minors, and pledges the Church's commitment to better protect minors and vulnerable adults.
Speaking at a meeting dedicated to peace in Bamenda, Cameroon, Pope Leo XIV warns against the "masters of war" who pretend not to acknowledge that "it only takes a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild" and who spend billions on weapons but dedicate nothing to helping people heal.