Pope: Technology should serve friendships, not replace them
During a visit to the Vatican's summer camp for children of employees, Pope Leo XIV encourages children to use technology responsibly.
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During a visit to the Vatican's summer camp for children of employees, Pope Leo XIV encourages children to use technology responsibly.
As Pope Leo XIV visits the headquarters of the World Food Programme, Gemma Snowdon, a WFP official who served in South Sudan, says the visit offers encouragement for the mission of UN humanitarians, especially those serving in remote areas affected by conflict and climate shocks.
The General Secretariat of the Synod announces that leaders of the Church's continental bodies are gathering in Rome to assess progress in implementing the Synod on Synodality and to prepare for the ecclesial Assemblies of 2027–2028.
Pope Leo XIV visits the UN World Food Programme headquarters in Rome and insists that food, water, and healthcare cannot be subordinated to geopolitical interests, calling for nations to work together with renewed multilateralism.
The first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas’, published on 26 May 2026, links the pursuit of language as a tool for peace to the synodal journey of the Church. In an interview with Vatican News, Father Justin Nkunzi, president of the Justice and Peace Commission in the Archdiocese of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—a region scarred by violent conflicts—explains how this language can become an instrument of peace not only in the DRC but in the whole Great Lakes
Fr. Luigi Pugliese, an Italian priest who serves as the Rector of the Marian Shrine in Acerra, near Naples, shares his hopes for the impact of Pope Leo XIV’s visit on May 23 to the area.
Pope Leo XIV meets with the members of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, and praises the French pediatrician and founder of modern genetics as a man who defended life and human dignity in favor of the common good.
The 96th General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is set to open in Prague, Czechia, on June 24, bringing together 113 public radio and television broadcasters from 56 countries, including Vatican Radio, one of the EBU’s founding members.
Talks about the details of a long-term peace deal to end the war between the United States and Iran have begun in Switzerland.
Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz has declared a National State of Emergency, to empower the Police reinforced by the Military, to sweep aside road blocks which are choking the supply arteries of food and fuel. Jam
Following the recitation of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Leo marks world Refugee Day, prays for victims in a car crash in Brazil and greets members of the Pentecostal Church.
Pope Leo XIV urges Christians to root their mission in personal encounter and contemplation, drawing strength from an intimate relationship with Christ to witness to the Gospel with hope, love, and perseverance in every circumstance.