The pontiff stopped at a care home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

“Endowed by Their Creator: Catholicism, the Declaration of Independence, and the American Experiment at 250" was co-hosted by The Catholic University of America and the University of Notre Dame.

In Algeria, the pope visited the archaeological site of the city where St. Augustine served as bishop.

The Polish Bishops’ Conference has established a working group with government ministries to prepare the country’s more than 10,000 parishes for a potential armed conflict.

The appeal, collected in most dioceses April 25–26, supports dioceses and eparchies that rely on outside assistance to sustain sacramental and pastoral ministry.

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of Tanzania (TEC) has announced, with sadness, the death of Bishop Bernardin Francis Mfumbusa of Kondoa Diocese. Bishop Mfumbusa was admitted to Dodoma’s Benjamin Mkapa Hospital due to illness and died there on Tuesday morning, 14 April 2026.

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Pope Leo XIV visits a care home for the elderly in Annaba, Algeria, and recalls that God’s heart remains with those who are humble and seek peace in their daily lives.

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Returning to the lands walked by his spiritual father, St. Augustine, Pope Leo XIV visits the archaeological site of Hippo in Annaba on his second day in Algeria.

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In a letter to the Cardinals ahead of a late-June Consistory, Pope Leo XIV calls for a deeper reflection on the themes of “Evangelii gaudium," particularly the reform of the processes of Christian initiation, warning against the temptation of proselytism or a logic of “mere preservation or institutional expansion.”

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In a message to participants in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences plenary session this week, Pope Leo XIV insists that 'democracy remains healthy only when rooted in the moral law' and warns 'the concentration of technological, economic and military power in a few hands threatens both democratic participation among peoples and international concord.'

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