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Divine Mercy Sunday (April 12th)

Divine Mercy Sunday Today, on the 2nd weekend of the Easter Season, we celebrate "Divine Mercy Sunday." Today's devotion comes from Sister Maria Faustina, who was a young, uneducated nun in a convent in Poland during the 1930s...

Pope Leo XIV: Eucharist is ‘indispensable for Christian life’

"It is through the Eucharist that even our hands become ‘hands of the Risen One,'" the pope said.

Jesuit priest Fr. Melwin J. Pinto, SJ, passes away

Jesuit priest Fr. Melwin J. Pinto, SJ, who served Vatican Radio for many years, passed away at the age of 63 due to cardiac complications in Mangaluru, India, on April 10th.

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Archbishop Nona elected new Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church

Archbishop Amel Nona has been elected as the new Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church on Sunday, April 12, following the resignation of his predecessor, Cardinal Luis Raphaël Sako, announced on March 10. The new leader has chosen the name Paul III and will request ecclesiastical communion from the Pope.

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Chaldean Church chooses Archbishop Amel Nona as patriarch, succeeding Cardinal Sako

His appointment comes following the resignation of Cardinal Raphael Sako, who submitted his resignation to Pope Leo XIV on March 9 amid a legal and financial scandal surrounding a former bishop.

U.S.-Iran talks collapse as Vance cites nuclear impasse and Catholic leaders call for peace

The high-level face-to-face talks in Pakistan followed weeks of military confrontation that began in late February and produced a tenuous two-week ceasefire, which ends April 22.

Archbishop Coakley’s Response to President Trump’s Social Media Post on Pope Leo XIV

WASHINGTON – Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a brief response to a social media post by President Trump on Sunday evening. 

“I am disheartened that the President chose to write such disparaging words about the Holy Father. Pope Leo is not his rival; nor is the Pope a politician. He is the Vicar of Christ who speaks from the truth of the Gospel and for the care of souls.”

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Florida bishop advocates for greater access to internet, political freedom for Cubans

The bishop of Palm Beach said the crisis in the neighboring island nation “has reached truly inhumane proportions … and our solidarity and response are urgently needed.”

Iran- US talks end without agreement

US and Iranian delegations have failed to reach a deal following lengthy peace talks in Islamabad.

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James K. A. Smith on St Augustine, existentialism, and love

The philosopher and Augustine scholar James K. A. Smith speaks to Vatican News about St Augustine’s “deep sense of interiority and subjectivity”, and the way his political writings are used and abused today.

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